Advanced Search

Michael J. Mooney, 53, killed and nine other passengers injured when two city buses collide on W. Superior Street in Duluth, Minnesota

Date:

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Area:

Just after 5 a.m. a bus driver identified as 58-year-old Frank Polson suffered a medical emergency that caused him to lose control of the bus. The vehicle went speeding out of control on W. Superior Street, striking a stop sign, a traffic signal post, a construction barrier, and another bus that was headed the other way. A passenger was killed in the collision, identified as Michael J. Mooney, 53, of Duluth. The other bus driver was Glenn Evan McGill, 59, of Duluth. Polson was treated after the crash but their is no word on his medical condition.

School bus driver Scott Gilbertson, 68, suffers possible medical emergency, leaving bus driving slowly but unable to stop on Highway 47 in Aitkin County, MN

Date:

Friday, February 13, 2015

Area:

Duluth, MN-Superior, WI

A deputy witnessed a school bus driving erratically and very slowly on Highway 47 at about 3:49pm, which eventually stopped in the center of the road. As the deputy approached the bus, however, it started driving again and almost rolled off the side of the highway but incredibly re-entered the roadway, narrowly missed striking a car, and did not stop until police set up stop sticks, which deflated the bus's tires and allowed it to come to rest in a ditch.

Wayne Waller, 77, critically injured after possible heart attack behind the wheel on Highway 2 near Cloquet, MN; Waller was kept alive by the actions of four good Samaritans

Date:

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Area:

Duluth, MN-Superior, WI

Sometime in the morning, Waller was driving on Highway 2 with passenger Mae Line when he apparently suffered a medical emergency, speculated to be a heart attack, and crashed his vehicle into some trees. It was then that three people, identified as off–duty firefighter Robert Zobel, citizen Lacey Silgjord, and a retired Fredenberg firefighter named Mark Toms, discovered the wreck and found that Waller had no pulse.

Duwane Kramer, 78, killed after he suffers a medical emergency and crashes his vehicle into the median wall on U.S. 52 near Rochester, Minnesota

Date:

Monday, March 31, 2014

Area:

Rochester, MN-Mason City, IA-Austin, MN

A 78-year-old man reportedly suffered severe symptoms from a medical condition while driving on U.S. 52 in Rochester on Monday, causing him to crash into a median wall. Duwane Kramer, of Rochester, was northbound when he "suffered a medical condition" and veered off the highway near Civic Center Drive Northwest, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. Kramer died at the scene. The crash was reported at 5:45 p.m. Rochester firefighters and police, Olmsted County sheriff's deputies and a Gold Cross Ambulance crew responded to the crash.