Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Lane Sharing is Legal and Reduces Motorcycle Accidents

  Claude Wyle | November 06, 2007 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  I thought that I should chime in, since I have settled at least four or five lane sharing cases for six figures in the last year or so. You should take these cases and evaluate them carefully. The claims representatives have no idea what is legal in California or what is reasonable riding and they should be educated that lane sharing cases are valid. First of all, I recognize the prejudice in...

• San Francisco Bound Gambling Bus Crash With Truck; Kills Driver

  Claude Wyle | December 05, 2007 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  What started out as a peaceful bus ride to the Indian Casino for a bit of gambling, has turned ugly, with a bus crashing head-on into a pick up truck, and killing the driver of the pick-up. CHP investigators are still investigating last Sunday night's fatal bus crash, which killed one person and caused serious personal injuries for several more. There is talk of a side swipe and of dangerous...

• Two Killed When Car Hit by Train in Accident

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

  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...

• 22nd Pedestrian San Francisco Death This Year

  Claude Wyle | September 17, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An elderly Asian woman was killed last Tuesday afternoon when she was struck by a black Chevrolet sedan on Geary Boulevard, just across from St. Mary's Cathedral. This is the 22nd pedestrian death on the streets of San Francisco this year, a markedly deadly year for seniors, and a sharp increase from the 2006 pedestrian fatalities. Although this woman may have been jaywalking, according to an...

• SUV Makes Deadly Lane Change and Kills Motorcyclist

  Claude Wyle | August 15, 2007 4:49 PM | 1 CommentSan Francisco, CA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  On Tuesday, in downtown Oakland , a motorcyclist was killed when an SUV while attempting to make a lane change, brushed the motorcycle he was riding, and caused him to hit a parked car, and then a cinder block wall.The motorcycle accident happened about 6 a.m. in the 100 block of Seventh Street, between Jackson and Madison streets, near Chinatown. This apparently is another case of "I just...

• Gambling Bus Accident Causes Wrongful Death

  Claude Wyle | December 04, 2007 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A gambling tour bus from U.S. Asia Tours, bound for San Francisco on Highway 88, crashed head-on into a pick up truck on Sunday night, killing the driver of the pick-up. At first the CHP believed that the pick up driver's conduct was the cause of the crash, however now they believe that a second car which was trying to pass the bus, might have hit the bus and caused this deadly five car pile up....

• Big Rig Crash On San Mateo Bridge Injures Drivers and Pedestrians

  Claude Wyle | September 21, 2007 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  In yet another bizarre crash involving multiple trucks, three people suffered major personal injuries, including the driver of one of the trucks, a passenger in another truck and someone standing on the shoulder who was hit by flying debris. The truck accident on the San Mateo Bridge happened when one big rig truck rear-ended another truck that was parked on the shoulder. The third big rig then...

• Speeding Teen Driver Causes Fatal Auto Accident

  Claude Wyle | September 28, 2007 6:07 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Rachel Vargas, a 14-year-old, suffered fatal injuries when the car she rode in spun out of control and hit into the center divider on Interstate 680, near Pleasanton. Police say the driver, Drori Levi was driving at an extremely high rate of speed, which likely was the cause of this auto accident. Fortunately, Levi's other three passengers escaped with their lives, although they did suffer...

• Traumatic Brain Injuries From Car And Motorcycle Accidents

  Claude Wyle | September 05, 2007 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Astoundingly, 1.5-2 million people a year sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) from motor vehicle accidents such as automobile accidents and motorcycle accidents, as well as bicycle accidents and pedestrian accidents and falls, sport injuries, and other traumatic events. 500,000 of these TBIs are severe enough to require hospitalization, and 50,000 people die from complications of head...

• San Francisco Hit and Run Auto Accident Fatality

  Claude Wyle | September 20, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 70-year-old woman was killed and another person suffered serious personal injuries in a three-vehicle hit-and-run collision which happened at about 8:30 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Gilman Avenue and Jennings Street. in San Francisco. Anyone with information about this hit and run accident is asked to call the San Francisco police Hit and Run detail at (415) 553-1641 or the Confidential...