Minneapolis Personal Injury Blog

In the early morning of  November 6, 2011 two people took advantage of the Regional Bike Trail close to the Hopkins-St. Louis Park border and tried riding their motorcycle over a thirty two foot high trail bridge, but crashed on the bridge and fell onto the rocky shore of the Minnehaha Creek..  Hopkins Police Sgt. Michael Glassberg reported that the Three Rivers Park police responded to a neighbor’s report of the motorcycle crash and found a twenty four year old man and a twenty seven year old woman lying on the rocks next to the river with personal injuries.  The injured couple were take from the accident scene to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.  The police reported that unsafe speed was a crash factor and the matter would be referred to the City Attorney for possible charges.

IntoxBox, a touch-screen machine that contains a breathalyzer is now available to use in six Twin Cities bars for customer use. Locations include Fabulous Fern’s Bar and Grill and Shamrock’s in St. Pul, Cowboy Jack’s and Senser’s in Bloomington, the Park Tavern in St. Louis Park and the Cabooze Bar in Minneapolis.

Intoxbox is produced by the Eden Prarie based Walden Innovative Resources.  The machine is intended to allow customers pay two dollars to breathe into a disposable straw and provides them a result of their blood alcohol concentration.  According to Ryan Walden, the inventor of the Intoxobox, is to make customers aware of what their blood alcohol concentration is before they drive home.  In a recent interview Walden stated that, “You have a speedometer in your car to help you obey the speed limit, yet we’re expected to obey the drinking and driving laws without access to a tool that is supposed to help us obey the law.”