OnStar Helps Senator Corker’s Daughter Recover Tahoe
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Julia Corker, 22-year-old daughter of Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., stopped the family’s Chevy Tahoe Wednesday evening just nine blocks from the U.S. Capitol building to help someone she thought needed directions, reports CNN.
“A gentleman appeared, opened the door, grabbed her by the neck,” the senator said. “She kicked to try to get away … and he threw her on the pavement and drove away.”
The SUV was stolen near the Verizon Center, a glitzy arena in Washington. Ms. Corker called police and then her father, who was nearby.
“It’s pretty incredible how quickly they were able to apprehend” the suspects, the senator said. The two people in the car were taken into custody by police in Seat Pleasant, Md., after OnStar determined their exact location and showed that the vehicle was not moving, Corker explained.
Police in Seat Pleasant, recovered the vehicle later that night. Julia Corker and the senator went to Seat Pleasant about midnight, where she identified a suspect.
The senator praised the work of the Metropolitan Police the U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI and the Seat Pleasant Police. He also admitted he often thought about canceling the OnStar service subscription. “I was telling the lady who handles that for me in Chattanooga, each month I was saying, ‘I don’t want to pay this, I don’t want to pay this,'” Corker said, adding that it was a nominal fee.
But he kept the service, “thinking that maybe OnStar would be of some help” someday, Corker said. “Certainly it paid off tremendously.”
GM Media Online features how the Stolen Vehicle Slowdown process works. The link to the video page on Media Online is here:
http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/videos.brand_gm.html
Click on OnStar, and the video is the first one in that category.
