Automobile Accidents

• Hit-and-Run Survivor Suffers Serious Head Injury: Witness Used Cell Phone To Help Police

  Claude Wyle | July 19, 2007 7:36 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A negligent driver struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk at Amador Valley Boulevard and Regional Street in Dublin, California Last Sunday night. The pedestrian was rushed to the local emergency room because of life-threatening head injuries. The pedestrian survived, but required 12 staples on his head. Using a cell phone, a witness kept 911 dispatch apprised of the driver's location until police...

• Justice Served for Injured Marin Bicyclist

  Claude Wyle | July 18, 2007 8:03 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A Marin jury recently found the driver of a Golden Gate Transit bus guilty on charges prompted by an accident that occurred on February 5, 2006. The driver allegedly attempted to run the cyclist off the road in retaliation for tapping on the bus and then intentionally striking the rider at a bus stop on Ward Street near its intersection with Magnolia Avenue in downtown Larkspur. The district...

• Wife Kills Husband in Tragic Auto Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 17, 2007 5:00 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  An elderly woman accidently backed over her husband, then dragged him to his death in a tragic auto accident that occurred in San Francisco's Chinatown district on Saturday night. This pedestrian accident occurred in the driveway of the couple's Chinatown home, at Mason and Washington Streets. The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, but suffered fatal injuries and could...

• Pedestrian Struck in Berkeley Accident Dies

  Claude Wyle | July 11, 2007 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  According to the Alameda County Coroner, a Livermore California man who was struck last month by a woman motorist while crossing Telegraph Avenue near Blake Street and thrown 45 feet, sustained serious head injuries, died last Thursday. The negligent driver was arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired, according to the Berkeley PD. The charges stemming from this wrongful death may change...

• San Francisco Driver Kills Pedestrian

  Claude Wyle | July 06, 2007 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  The careless driving of a 77-year-old San Francisco automobile driver caused the death of a woman pedestrian on Sunday, July 1, 2007. This pedestrian death occurred at the intersection of San Fernando Way and Sullivan Avenue in Daly City, California when the driver passed a truck which had actually stopped at the corner for the pedestrian as she crossed the street. The passing car struck the...

• Catastrophic Highway Accident Linked to Shoddy Scaffolding

  Claude Wyle | July 01, 2007 3:45 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Three people suffered serious injuries early yesterday morning when scaffolding on a highway onramp near Chico, California collapsed. Miraculously, no fatalities occurred when thirty-six tons of steel crashed on top of the vehicles underneath. Three survivors suffered serious injuries, including multiple broken bones. One brave FedEx driver was trapped in his truck for more than three hours...

• After An Automobile Accident: Seven Deadly Sins

  Claude Wyle | March 13, 2007 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  You've been in an automobile or motorcycle or bicycle accident and you were injured. Now what do you do? Call a personal injury attorney right away. The advice you receive may save your claim. If you delay, you may make mistakes that will permanently prejudice your claim and prevent you from getting a fair settlement with the insurance company. The following is a list of the Seven Deadly Sins...

• Bicycle vs Truck Crash: Is The City At Fault For a Dangerous Intersection?

  Claude Wyle | February 06, 2007 5:10 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  The San Francisco bicycling community has been in an uproar since the latest truck bicycle crash which happened last Monday, in which a young woman was struck by a truck while riding her bicycle at the intersection of Octavia and Market Streets in San Francisco. The driver of the commercial truck was making an illegal right turn, and ran away from the scene without stopping to render...

• Two Killed When Car Hit by Train in Accident

  Staff Writer | June 12, 2006 8:31 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  An Amtrak train crashed into a car at 66th Avenue and San Leandro Street Saturday when the driver drove around the crossing's lowered gates in an attempt to flee the police. The accident occurred around 4:00 PM, and the small car was pushed about 150 feet down the tracks. Both the car's driver and a toddler riding in the vehicle were ejected in the crash.According to the San Francisco...