Photo of the scene on the side of I-93 in Manchester where Rudy Giuliani and Ted Goodman say they were flagged down by a woman seeking help Saturday night. Screenshot from the show America’s Mayor Live (747)

By NANCY WEST, InDepthNH.org

New Hampshire State Police refused to release information about the person arrested Saturday night after former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani stopped on I-93 in Manchester to help a woman who flagged down the car he was in, but Giuliani and his driver that night Ted Goodman went on at length about the incident on his show.

The program aired on Twitter and other platforms Tuesday night under the headline: “America’s Mayor Live (747): Mayor Rudy Giuliani Shares Full Details of Saturday Night’s Accident.” You can watch the show here: https://www.youtube.com/live/9klcD6aMDNY?si=4jJzSyQOCNwMqouT

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New Hampshire State Police first reported on Sunday that Giuliani, Goodman and the Concord teenager whose Honda HR-V rear-ended their Ford Bronco Saturday just before 10 p.m. were all taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The initial state police release Sunday said troopers were investigating a domestic violence incident on the southbound side of I-93 when the two-vehicle crash occurred in the northbound lane, but didn’t mention that it was Giuliani and Goodman who called 9-1-1 and waited with the woman who flagged them down only to learn later that the woman wasn’t a victim, but was allegedly the aggressor. The second state police news release Monday included some of that information.

The crash was unrelated to the woman flagging them down and occurred when they got back on the highway and headed north, police said.

Giuliani, 81, was wearing what looked like a brace on his show Tuesday night, apparently due to the injuries he suffered in the crash. Giuliani was released from the Elliot Hospital on Monday. He had attended a Fisher Cats baseball game in Manchester before the accident Saturday.

“This is America’s mayor live from Mars,” Giuliani joked opening Tuesday’s show.

He and Goodman went into detail about what sounded like a harrowing experience with the woman flagging them down, speaking to them claiming to be a victim, asking to use a phone, and waiting with her and someone standing behind her until police arrived.

They then saw someone being taken in an ambulance and asked the officer if the woman had been badly injured.

“He looked at me and said not her – him. Ted and I were both shocked. He said, ‘didn’t you notice the blood and skin under her nails?’” Giuliani said.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Tyler Dumont, public information officer for the New Hampshire Department of Safety, declined to release the arrest report or the name of the person arrested during the incident prior to the crash.

“I have sent your request for the arrest report to be processed as a 91-A,” Dumont responded referring to the state’s right-to-know law.

When that happens, the department usually doesn’t respond until at least five days or more and the documents are likely to be redacted.

InDepthNH.org also asked to interview Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn on Tuesday, but Dumont asked what InDepthNH.org wanted to ask him about and didn’t respond when told it was to ask why the information wasn’t being released.

“As I shared yesterday, the name of the subject arrested will be in the next arrest blotter. I don’t have an estimate on when that will be published just yet,” Dumont said.

No charges have been filed in the two-vehicle crash. State police said the investigation is continuing.