Automobile Accidents

• Five Dead From Motor Vehicle Accidents in San Francisco Bay Area Over Weekend

  Claude Wyle | September 04, 2007 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Even before the Labor Day weekend was half over, it proved deadly for several people traveling on San Francisco Bay Area roads and highways. By Saturday night, a 61 year old man died in a motorcycle crash in Concord, when he rode into the Kohl's department store. On Highway 4, a motorcyclist was killed when he was thrown from his bike, landing inside the gates of a nearby storage facility. A 47...

• "Ghost Bike" Keeps Alemeda Cyclist's Memory Alive

  Claude Wyle | August 03, 2007 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Today one fallen cyclist was memorialized by a ceremony and a bicycle painted white, dubbed "the ghost bike." Ed Weiss may still be alive if only the motorcycle that struck him one year ago today while trying to pass a car learned to "share the road." Instead, this avid cyclist suffered fatal injuries. Hopefully this unfortunate event will raise awareness and prevent future auto accidents.

• Antioch Man Killed While Laying Flares on Highway 24

  Claude Wyle | August 01, 2007 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  A 60-year-old man was struck by an oncoming vehicle and killed early this morning while laying down flares on Highway 24 near Walnut Creek, California. The injuries proved to be fatal, and the motorist was pronounced dead at John Muir Medical Center. The vehicle was out of traffic, so this just goes to show how this sort of auto accident can be avoided by remaining protected in your car until...

• 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...

• Alcohol to Blame in Fatal Highway Accident

  Claude Wyle | October 06, 2007 6:18 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  Another drunk driver has needlessly taken the life of another. Early Thursday morning, Zhang Bailan was driving south on Highway 101 in San Francisco California. He had been drinking earlier that night, and struck another vehicle as he attempted to exit onto Third Street. The driver of the car Bailan struck suffered fatal injuries, and the driver's passenger was rushed to San Francisco...

• Pedestrian Killed in Hit and Run in Castro in San Francisco

  Claude Wyle | August 27, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  San Francisco Pedestrian Roger Tennyson, 77, was killed instantly by a speeding car in the Castro on Sunday, according to Larry Bartholomew, 66, his partner of 15 years. Tennyson had just parked his own car when an unidentified vehicle estimated to be going 70 to 80 miles per hour hit him outside his Castro home on the 100 block of Sanchez Street at 1:30 a.m. He had been a San Francisco resident...