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During 1979, the Maplewood police I. 7- Ceps
covered 1,193 vehicle accidents within the v
city limits.
is an increase of only 47 accidents •k-
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over the 1978 total of 1,146. Although it Rosetaion Frost 4*
appears that the accident rate on �Maplewood roadways is somewhat stable,
Lake y ave.
Tom Hagen, assistant Maplewood police PhalenLarpen+eur
chief, says that may not be the case.
"I think this is a confused picture.With Legend
the higher gasoline prices, I think people ■ fatal accidents
are driving less and car pooling more. I 3
• think the rate appears stable because 0 intersections with high accident rates g
there are fewer cars on the road and not r.
because drivers are acting more safely." t
Avenue and White Bear Avenue.
The number of personal injury ac- According to Hagen, White Bear
cidents reported to the Maplewood police Avenue has the highest accident rate of 14g
dropped last year. There were 239 per- any street in Maplewood.The intersection
sonal injury accidents in 1979, compared with the most accidents in the city is the
to 273 accidents in 1978.The total number junction of Larpenteur and White Bear
of persons injured in accidents during Avenues.
1979 was 340. In 1978 there were 413 per- Other intersections with large accident
sons injured. totals are:Cope and White Bear Avenues;
County Road C and White Bear Avenue; Li„ �
In each of the last two years, five Roselawn Avenue and Highway 61; Van
persons died from injuries sustained Dyke Street and Larpenteur Avenue; Van
within Maplewood. Dyke Street and Ripley Avenue; and
wood
Two persons were killed in separate North St. Paul Road and Ripley Avenue.
accidents during 1979 at the intersection Most of the roads intersecting White
of County Road D and Minnesota High- Bear Avenue near the Maplewood Mall
way 61.The other fatal accidents last year have high accident levels. Several ac-
occurred on: Linwood Avenue; in the 900 cidents also occurred at the interchange
block of Frost Avenue along Lake Phalen; roadways connecting Interstate 94 and
and at the intersection of Woodlynn Highway 120.