Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office asks people to make a New Year's resolution in 2013 that could save a life or prevent a crash.
Editor's Note: The following was taken from a Hennepin County Sheriff's Office e-newsletter. A new survey indicates that while 97 percent of teens know texting while driving is dangerous, 43 percent of them admit to sending a text while driving – and 75 percent say the practice is common among their friends.The survey found that teenagers feel pressure to quickly respond to text messages – and adults are also setting a poor example by texting while driving themselves. Make a New Year's resolution in 2013 that could save your life or prevent a crash. Take a pledge NOT to text and drive and ask your family members to do the same. Remember, it is illegal to text and drive in Minnesota. Create a new habit: Put your phone in the glove box …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
It's agreed that driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol is dangerous. Is a text exchange with your mother just as bad?
Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended a nation-wide ban on cell phone use while driving. The recommendation stems from an investigation into a 2010 crash in Missouri that resulted in a four-way pile up between two full school buses, a tractor trailer and a pickup truck that killed two people. The NTSB faulted the pickup driver, who was allegedly texting shortly before the accident. It is already illegal to text and drive in Minnesota. Critics of the NTSB proposal have called it "hysterical" and "unenforceable." An editorial in USA Today compared it to the 18th Amendment, which put the kibosh on booze from 1919 to 1933. On the other hand, editorial writers at the Star Tribune argued that a prohibition on cell use …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Amanda Elizabeth Manzanares, 21, was ordered to serve 180 days in the county workhouse.
A woman charged with texting while driving in Minnetonka last October has been found guilty and sentenced for criminal vehicular operation, a felony. Amanda Elizabeth Manzanares, 21, was driving without insurance and under a restricted instructional permit when she drove her car across the centerline of Excelsior Boulevard in Minnetonka and struck a man riding a motorcycle, badly injuring him. Prosecutors claim the mother of two was reaching for her cell phone to read an incoming text message at the time of the accident. Both of Manzanares' children, now ages 2 and 4, were in the backseat of her car when the accident happened. Manzanares was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to serve 180 days in the Hennepin County …
Friday, June 3, 2011
After a crash in Minnetonka last fall, which left a motorcyclist badly hurt, a local woman was charged with felony texting and driving.
A woman charged with felony texting and driving in Minnetonka earlier this year made her first court appearance on Thursday, and was released with the condition that she doesn't contact the victim in the case. Amanda Elizabeth Manzanares, 20, was driving without insurance and under a restricted instructional permit when she drove her car across the centerline of Excelsior Boulevard in Minnetonka and struck a man riding a motorcycle, badly injuring him, Hennepin County attorneys say. Prosecutors claim the mother of two was reaching for her cell phone to read an incoming text message at the time of the accident. Manzanares was assigned a public attorney, Nancy Laskaris, on Thursday. Her next Hennepin County court date was set for June 28…
Sunday, April 24, 2011
A woman has been charged with felony texting and driving in connection with an October 2010 crash in Minnetonka that left one person badly injured.
An Eden Prairie woman has been charged with felony texting and driving after, prosecutors allege, she hit and badly injured a motorcyclist in Minnetonka because she was distracted by her cell phone. Prosecutors claim the mother of two was reaching for her cell phone to read an incoming text message at the time of the accident. “Obviously she was reaching down for the cell phone that was vibrating," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said at a press conference Tuesday. Hennepin County attorneys say that on the morning of Oct. 7, 2010, 20-year-old Amanda Elizabeth Manzanares was driving without insurance and under a restricted instructional permit when she drove her car across the centerline of Excelsior Boulevard in Minnetonka and …
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Mike E
6:55 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I think the sheriff should lead by example, and do what Ft Wayne did, by not allowing use of in car computers if the car is travelling more than 15 MPH. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/08/policing-police-those-distracting-car-computers/3127/ more ›