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City of Mounds View Comprehensive Plan ________________________________________________________________________ 78 Traffic Accident Data: Figure 15 on page 80 shows the locations of the recorded accidents during the years 1995 to 1997. During this three-year period there were a total of 514 accidents reported by either state, county or local enforcement agencies within Mounds View’s municipal boundaries. Most of these accidents occurred on County Highway 10 (233, or 45 percent), State Highway 10--formerly U.S. Trunk Highway 118 (47, or 9 percent) or along the county roads, such as County Road I (58, or 11.3 percent), Silver Lake Road (24, or 4.7 percent), or Long Lake Road (16, or 3.1 percent). The remaining 124 accidents were spread throughout the City. The majority of the accidents occurred at the intersections of roadways. The Intersections having the highest frequency of accidents were all on County Highway 10: County Highway 10 and County Road H (42), County Highway 10 and County Road I (34), County Highway 10 and Long Lake Road (21), County Highway 10 and Woodale (19) and County Highway 10 and Groveland Road (19). All of these intersections are fully controlled, with the exception of County Highway 10 and Groveland Road. Other areas of high accident frequency occurred at the junction of State Highway 10 and Interstate 35W (24) and the convergence of the southbound exit ramp from 35W and County Highway 10 (19), which is almost half of the reported accidents on County Highway 10 south of County Road H to the southern boundary of the City. Regarding intersections not involving County Highway 10, County Road I figured in five of the seven intersections having six or more reported accidents during the reporting period: County Road I and Quincy Street (13), County Road I and Adams Street (12), County Road I and Jackson Drive (9), Old Highway 8 and County Road H (9), County Road I and Long Lake Road (8), County Road I and Silver Lake Road (8), and County Road H2 and Long Lake Road (6). While all intersections and accident areas are of a concern to the City in terms of public safety of both motorists and pedestrians, Pinewood Elementary School is located at the corner of County Road I and Quincy Street, an intersection having a higher than average traffic flow in all directions. Special precaution should be taken to reduce accidents and to protect the safety of children in this area. While most reported accidents involved some type of vehicle to vehicle collision, 90 accidents--or 18 percent--involved only one vehicle. Of these, 41 involved the striking of a fixed object, such as a sign post or traffic signal, 21 were roll-overs, 13 involved a deer, 8 involved a bicycle and 6 involved pedestrians. Of the 514 accidents reported in Mounds View, only one was fatal, while seven involved injuries considered incapacitating and 73 considered non-incapacitating.