Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The departing state senator for Spring Lake Park and part of Fridley co-authored a law requiring crossing arms on new school buses that went into effect Jan. 1, 2013.
State Sen. Pam Wolf (R-Spring Lake Park) is leaving the Minnesota Legislature next week, but her legacy is still unfolding: A law she wrote, requiring new school buses to have crossing arms, took effect Tuesday. Wolf, a teacher, introduced the law as a bill in March 2011. After redistricting shifted her district so it no longer included part of Fridley, she lost her re-election bid in the new district to DFLer Alice Johnson. Here is information about Wolf's law and some of the other new laws that took effect Jan. 1, 2013, provided by the nonpartisan House Public Information Services. PUBLIC SAFETY School buses to be equipped with crossing arm All school buses used in the state that are manufactured after Jan. 1, 2013, will need to be …
Friday, November 9, 2012
He pulled over and told a Robbinsdale student to retrieve the weapon from the roadside; Metropolitan Transportation Network owner Tashitaa Tufaa said the driver doesn't work there anymore.
A bus driver who stopped with students on board and asked a child to retrieve what turned out to be a gun is no longer employed with the Fridley-based Metropolitan Transportation Network, said owner Tashitaa Tufaa. Tufaa said the driver, who he wouldn't name, ignored "very huge signs" inside the bus that prohibit any such action. "Even if they see a $20 bill, they cannot pick it up," he said. "They are supposed to call their supervisor immediately." The incident is without precedent at MTA, Tufaa said. A spokesperson at Robbinsdale Area Schools said the same was true for the school. "This has never happened before," spokesperson Tia Clasen told Golden Valley Patch. "I encourage families to talk to their students about situations that may …
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
A car rear-ended a school bus on the first day of school for the second year in a row.
For the second year in a row, a car rear-ended a school bus in Fridley on the first day of school. According to the officer's account in the Fridley Police Department's incident log for Sept. 5, 2012: I responded to a property damage crash involving a school bus in the 1500 block of Osborne Road. No injuries were reported and a Commercial Vehicle Inspector was dispatched. One of the driver's was cited for inattentive driving (Depending on students' school and grade levels, Sept. 4 and 5, 2012 were the first days of school for many Fridley-area students.) Lt. Mike Monsrud offered more detail about the incident: The driver who crashed into the rear of the bus was cited for inattentive driving. She told police she looked at her radio to …
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Of 50 elementary students, 1 child had nosebleed; 2 from car went to hospital with non-lethal injuries.
Update (6:45 p.m. Tuesday): A school bus and car collided at 61st Avenue NE and Starlite Boulevard NE in Fridley Tuesday afternoon, leaving one student with a bloody nose and sending two people from the car to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. There were 50 elementary school students on the bus, according to Fridley Police Sgt. Jim Mork, but no other injuries to children he said he had been told attend R.L. Stevenson Elementary School. He did not know the ages or other information about the two people from the car. He said he believed they went to the hospital mostly as a precaution. Mork described the accident as two vehicles' front ends clipping each other at the L-shaped intersection, which has no stop signs or other …
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61st Ave NE & Starlite Blvd NE, Fridley, MN
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Fox 9 report focuses on Sept. collision at Hwy. 65. railroad crossing.
A crash in Fridley last September is the jumping-off point for a new investigation by Fox 9 about collisions in which stopped school buses get rear-ended. The report, titled I Didn't See the Bus, aired Thursday night and starts with a Sept. 7, 2011, crash that Fridley Patch covered that day with photos and a story. In the Fridley incident, the driver of a car smashed into the back of a school bus stopped at railroad tracks crossing Highway 65. The car driver was taken to the hospital but the bus driver was not injured; the bus was not carrying passengers at the time. State law requires school buses (and some other types of vehicles) to stop at all railroad crossings—even on state highways such as Highway 65 with fast traffic. Despite that …
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7000 Highway 65 NE, Fridley, MN
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
No children were on bus in crash at the railroad crossing on northbound Hwy. 65 just south of 73rd Avenue NE in Fridley.
No children were on board a school bus involved in a crash with a car on Hwy. 65 Wednesday. An Allina ambulance took the driver of the car to Hennepin County Medical Center, according to Fridley Fire Chief John Berg. The school bus driver was not hurt. The crash happened at about 9:30 a.m. in the right northbound lane of Hwy. 65, at the railroad grade crossing south of 73rd Avenue NE. The car's driver was "up and walking" after the crash, Berg said, but he added that incidents with extensive vehicle damage carry the potential for serious injury. 'It was just ... ram!' The crash appeared to have happened when the bus stopped at the railroad crossing, according to Fridley Police Off. Jason Cardinal. The front end of the car was crumpled …
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Chris Steller
1:35 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
What can happen, only 15 hours later, in Roseville. A fatal car-school bus crash: http://patch.com/A-tR07 more ›