Crime & Safety

Head-on Crash on Quiet Street Sends Two to Hospital

A driver swerved into parked car, police said.

A head-on collision in the 6200 block of Fifth Street NE sent two people to the hospital Tuesday afternoon.

A southbound passenger car veered into a car parked along the curb on the opposite side of the street, according to police and an eyewitness.

An ambulance took two people with injuries, an adult male and a juvenile female, to the hospital, said Fridley Police Officer Nick Kaufer. No one else was hurt, he said.

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Expected Medical Cause
The driver apparently lost control of the car, likely due to a medical condition, Kaufer said.

The car, a Honda, came to rest in one front yard after it hit the parked car, sending it rolling backward into the next front yard—an unusual head-on collision on a normally quiet residential street, Kaufer observed.

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What Eyewitness Saw
That gibes with what Chris Green said he saw when he was stopped in his car at a stop sign a half-block north at Fifth Street and 63rd Avenue NE. He said he noticed something was wrong with a car down Fifth Street, then heard a crash.  

"I saw it swerve into the parked car (which) rolled into the other yard," he said. 

Green described the people in the car as an old man and a young girl.

Both cars suffered front-end damage, but a tow-truck operator was able to drive the Honda across the street before towing it away.


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