Wednesday, August 1, 2012
In wake of school-crossing accident, avenue between North and Center will get parking lane and bike lane stripes, ending legal passing on the right.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"We have a tendency to build our streets like highways," a traffic consultant told city officials and the public Tuesday night. On few stretches of public street is that more true than on part of Wauwatosa Avenue north of North Avenue. Variously described as "a free-for-all," "the Autobahn" and, simply, "a nightmare," Wauwatosa Avenue from North Avenue to Center Street is wide and unmarked, with plenty of room for rushing commuters to make up their own lanes and the rules to go with them. Those rules seldom respect other uses for public streets, including travel by bicycle and crossing on foot. That's about to change, and soon, as aldermen and city staff have moved to do something about safety on the busy route before school starts Sept. 4…
Friday, July 13, 2012
Victim had to be extracted from SUV knocked over in a collision in the middle of busy Mayfair and North.
Busy morning traffic was rerouted in two directions Friday at North Mayfair Road and West North Avenue after a two-vehicle collision that left a woman trapped in her tipped SUV. Firefighters were able to extract the woman within about 15 to 20 minutes after the 8:29 a.m. accident. The woman, whom police and fire officials have not yet identified, was able to walk to a stretcher on her own but was taken to the hospital. Lt. Gerald Witkowski said the woman suffered a minor injury to her arm. The SUV remained on its side in the middle of the southbound lanes of Mayfair Road, while the sedan that struck it, with major front-end damage, sat in the eastbound lanes of North Avenue. Traffic in both those directions was rerouted. A witness told …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Elderly couple had been at Pick 'n Save on Blue Mound and were leaving when their car's engine went "full bore" and careened across the parking lot striking two other parked cars and wound up crossing 84th St. before hitting a home.
An elderly couple suffered injuries in a serious accident at about 12:30 p.m. Friday when their car raced out of control across a parking lot and then across four lanes of traffic before jumping the curb and smashing into the corner of a house. The incident began after the couple left the Pick n' Save store at 8151 Blue Mound Road, in Milwaukee, and ended with the front of the car wrapped around a stone planter box at the front corner of a home in Wauwatosa at the corner of Blue Mound and North 84th Street. Both the Milwaukee and Wauwatosa Fire Departments responded, and two Tosa paramedic units took the couple to Froedtert Hospital, said Asst. Fire Chief Jim Case. "We both showed up," Case said. "There was a little confusion about where …
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Scene of traffic accident that injured two
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Superintendent Phil Ertl heard from parents that most were opposed to earlier school hours, especially for high schoolers. He has revised his proposal, keeping high school at 8 a.m. and starting lower grades 10 and 20 minutes later.
If there is a change in school start times, it will be toward later bells rather than earlier ones. In an effort to improve school safety by reducing congestion, Wauwatosa Superintendent Phil Ertl recently proposed spreading out the start times of the three school levels and advancing the high school bell to 7:40 a.m. He asked for feedback from parents and staff, and he got it, apparently by the earful. Ertl said Monday night that the results of a survey and direct communications from parents showed a strong majority were opposed to earlier school starts, especially the 20-minute advance on high school hours. He is now proposing the opposite course — keeping high school starts at 8 a.m. and moving both middle schools to 8:10 and all …
The O'Briens appear to be out of danger. Meanwhile, details of their accident and another very like it have been released by the police, indicating both were the result of medical events occurring to the drivers.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Jim Price
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Two serious traffic accidents in the past few days were likely the result of neuromedical events in which the drivers lost their faculties. In an accident reported Thursday and updated Friday, a Tosa husband and wife were both seriously injured when the husband, who was driving, slumped over at the wheel and their car left the road and struck a house and a tree. In another accident Saturday, a woman who had suffered a seizure two years also lost control of her car on busy Mayfair Road, hit a tree and had to be pulled from her burning car by passersby. According to police, fire and hospital reports: Corrine O'Brien, 69, and her husband James O'Brien, 76, are now both in satisfactory condition at Froedtert Hospital after their accident …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Corrine O'Brien remains in intensive care unit after their car left the road, struck a house and crashed into a tree.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Jim Price
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Friday, April 20, 2012
A Wauwatosa husband and wife who were seriously injured in a one-car accident Thursday both remained hospitalized Friday afternoon, according to a Froedtert Hospital spokeswoman. As of 2:30 p.m., Corrine O'Brien was in critical condition and still in the hospital's intensive care unit, said media relations specialist Nalissa Wienke. Jim O'Brien was in satisfactory condition, Wienke said. Due to privacy concerns, Wienke said, she could not access or release any information about the patients' injuries or outlook. The couple were driving west on Wisconsin Avenue at at 11:45 a.m. Thursday when the car left the road at West 76th Street, Asst. Fire Chief Jim Case said Thursday. "It hit a house, bounced off the house and hit a tree," Case said…
Hank Reardon
10:48 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
My suggestion it to make N.76th Street one way going north, and North Ave one way going east. more ›