paulh
08-04-2007, 11:08 AM
Paul was not riding in the MS TRAM event a couple weeks ago, just happened to be on the road with hundreds of other cyclists. Be safe!
An article from the Park Rapids Enterprise:
A funeral Mass will be held Monday(last Monday) at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Rochester for Paul P. Howard, 52, who died in a car-bicycle accident reported at 6:22 a.m. Tuesday on state Highway 71 north of Park Rapids.
According to the state patrol, Laurine Marie Beaulieu, 42, of Cass Lake was driving a 1988 Plymouth van which rear-ended the bicycle. Both were headed northbound on Highway 71.
Howard and his family were on vacation here, and according to an article in the Post-Bulletin newspaper of Rochester, he was out taking one last bicycle ride before they headed home.
He was scheduled to be back at work as an engineer at Seagate Technology, an international data storage company, in Bloomington Wednesday.
Howard commuted from Rochester, but rode his bicycle a lot, going on cycling trips and entering citizen events.
Survivors include his wife, Julianne, sons, Andrew and Evan, and daughter, Michelle.
Beaulieu was arraigned Thursday on two counts of criminal vehicular homicide, second degree DWI, driving after revocation and failure to produce proof of insurance.
Bail was set at $100,000 and she is scheduled to appear in court again at 1 p.m. Monday.
According to the court complaint, after law enforcement located the victim in the ditch and emergency medical personnel determined he was deceased, officers located a 1988 van approximately one mile north of the crash site.
The van was disabled due to the accident.
Officers received reports of an obese intoxicated woman wearing a red top and shorts walking barefoot from the disabled vehicle and given a ride to Park Rapids in the area of Highway 34 and CSAH 20.
She was located at 11:59 a.m. at the residence of an acquaintance on Dayspring Drive located off CSAH 20.
Beaulieu was arrested and taken to the hospital for a blood test to determine her alcohol and/or drug level. The results are pending analysis by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
She allegedly admitted to consuming alcoholic beverages, smoking crack, marijuana and taking Oxycontin prior to operating the motor vehicle. At 1:50 p.m., she submitted to a breath test at the jail and the result was an alcohol concentration of .13.
Her drivers license is revoked due to prior alcohol violations. She has DWI convictions in 2002 and 2004.
Maximum penalty on the felony charges of criminal vehicular homicide is 10 years in jail and/or a $20,000 fine per count. The gross misdemeanor DWI carries a maximum of one year and/or a
An article from the Park Rapids Enterprise:
A funeral Mass will be held Monday(last Monday) at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Rochester for Paul P. Howard, 52, who died in a car-bicycle accident reported at 6:22 a.m. Tuesday on state Highway 71 north of Park Rapids.
According to the state patrol, Laurine Marie Beaulieu, 42, of Cass Lake was driving a 1988 Plymouth van which rear-ended the bicycle. Both were headed northbound on Highway 71.
Howard and his family were on vacation here, and according to an article in the Post-Bulletin newspaper of Rochester, he was out taking one last bicycle ride before they headed home.
He was scheduled to be back at work as an engineer at Seagate Technology, an international data storage company, in Bloomington Wednesday.
Howard commuted from Rochester, but rode his bicycle a lot, going on cycling trips and entering citizen events.
Survivors include his wife, Julianne, sons, Andrew and Evan, and daughter, Michelle.
Beaulieu was arraigned Thursday on two counts of criminal vehicular homicide, second degree DWI, driving after revocation and failure to produce proof of insurance.
Bail was set at $100,000 and she is scheduled to appear in court again at 1 p.m. Monday.
According to the court complaint, after law enforcement located the victim in the ditch and emergency medical personnel determined he was deceased, officers located a 1988 van approximately one mile north of the crash site.
The van was disabled due to the accident.
Officers received reports of an obese intoxicated woman wearing a red top and shorts walking barefoot from the disabled vehicle and given a ride to Park Rapids in the area of Highway 34 and CSAH 20.
She was located at 11:59 a.m. at the residence of an acquaintance on Dayspring Drive located off CSAH 20.
Beaulieu was arrested and taken to the hospital for a blood test to determine her alcohol and/or drug level. The results are pending analysis by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
She allegedly admitted to consuming alcoholic beverages, smoking crack, marijuana and taking Oxycontin prior to operating the motor vehicle. At 1:50 p.m., she submitted to a breath test at the jail and the result was an alcohol concentration of .13.
Her drivers license is revoked due to prior alcohol violations. She has DWI convictions in 2002 and 2004.
Maximum penalty on the felony charges of criminal vehicular homicide is 10 years in jail and/or a $20,000 fine per count. The gross misdemeanor DWI carries a maximum of one year and/or a