accident

We talk about school safety a lot, but there seems to be a lack of passion or awareness for distracted driving deaths of our teenagers.

This dash cam video shows a squad car responding to a call in Cambridge MN when it hits a deer at over 100MPH. Luckily the deputy is ok. The deer is a different story.

Brandon Puchalla is the son of one our good friends Pat Puchalla. Pat worked here at B105 for many years, and we would like to help spread the word to raise money for Brandon's recovery.

Tragedy struck along London Road in Duluth Tuesday as a pedestrian was struck and killed. The name of the victim has been released and the driver is in custody.

If you can remain calm while watching this video, there is something wrong with you.  This string of accidents happened back in 2014 in Montana, and they are using it as a tool to teach drivers to slow down!  Traffic whizzes by within inches of a woman who was ejected after an accident on GLARE ice roads.

What looks to be an apparent vehicle fire occurred near the Coppertop Church around noon today. The Duluth Fire Department was on scene and had the fire put out, but as you can see in the vehicle it was still smoking.

This is pretty shocking.  A plane crashed in Taiwan and it was caught on a dashboard camera in a car.  It appears the plane falls out of the sky and crashes into the bridge that the car was driving on.  The death toll of the accident isn't clear yet as the numbers keep rising.

Oops.  There are few things that fail so spectacularly as an unmanned rocket exploding just seconds after lift-off.  That's what happened the other day.  Thankfully, no one was hurt.

While on air this morning, the Breakfast Club received several calls from listeners reporting an accident on Grand Avenue in Duluth involving a school bus and two vehicles.  Ken and I passed this information along hoping to divert traffic from that area while awaiting word from the authorities of what happened.  Here are further details and pictures from the Duluth Police Department:

You may have been seeing this on social media.  It's called "The Cold Water Challenge."  Basically, people challenge friends to jump in cold water this time of year or be forced to pay an amount of money to charity.   A 32 year old father took the challenge, jumped into a body of water and was paralyzed.

It's such a tragedy, and it is heartbreaking to hear the story of what happened to Alyssa Lommel.  The UMD student was found on her neighbor's porch after being outside in -17F weather all night.  She had been out partying with friends when they dropped her off at home.   She never made it inside.

A semi truck carrying ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in mining, overturned this morning near Hibbing Taconite.  A mile wide evacuation effort was originally in place, but the tanker appears to not be leaking any of the chemical, just hydraulic fluid.