Giuliani pulled over to help domestic violence victim before N.H. crash, police confirm

A car crash involving Rudy Giuliani occurred almost directly across from where the former New York City mayor had assisted a victim of domestic violence, New Hampshire State Police confirmed Monday.

After being hit from behind driving southbound on I-93 in New Hampshire Saturday night, Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra and other injuries. A 19-year-old woman who allegedly hit Giuliani’s vehicle suffered non-life threatening injuries. No charges have been filed, State Police said.

Previously, Giuliani’s head of security Michael Ragusa wrote on X that the former mayor had been “flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident” and contacted police on her behalf.

State Police confirmed his account in an update Monday, including that the rear-ending incident was unrelated to the domestic violence report.

Giuliani, a passenger, was flagged down by a woman on the side of the road Saturday night, according to an update released by State Police Monday. She told Giuliani and Theodore Goodman, his spokesperson and driver, that she was a victim of a domestic violence incident. 

Goodman reported the incident to police just after 9 p.m., officials said, and he and the former mayor remained with the woman until troopers arrived. The pair reported to troopers what they saw and then got back on the interstate.

Just minutes later, Goodman and Giuliani got back on I-93, heading northbound, and were struck almost directly across from the scene of the reported domestic violence incident, officials said. Troopers then went across the highway to provide aid.

The 19-year-old driver had no connection to the domestic violence incident, investigators believe. 

“At this time, all aspects of the crash remain under investigation, including whether distraction or curiosity of the initial scene was a factor,” troopers wrote in a statement.

Available footage from troopers’ dashboards or body-worn cameras is being reviewed.

Giuliani, a longtime political ally of President Donald Trump, was disbarred as an attorney in New York and Washington after he was found to have repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss. After the crash, Trump announced Monday he would award Giuliani with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Molly Farrar is a general assignment reporter for Boston.com, focusing on education, politics, crime, and more.