Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Justice

SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2014 | 109 Comments

SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]

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Four CA Hit-and-Run Bills Await Governor Brown’s Signature

By Melanie Curry | Aug 29, 2014 | No Comments

Four bills targeting hit-and-run crimes in California await Governor Jerry Brown’s signature, including two from Assemblymember Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles), who has made hit-and-runs a focus this year. The bills have passed both houses of the California legislature and are awaiting the governor’s signature. One, a late addition to the legislative calendar (A.B. 47), would […]

Court Applies Reckless Driving to Bikes. When Will Gascón Apply it to Cars?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 24, 2014 | 11 Comments

A California state appeals court ruled last week that “reckless driving” can be applied to people on bicycles who kill or injure others, just as it’s applied to people driving, as the SF Chronicle reported. No one, including bicycle advocates, seems to dispute that full accountability should be brought to anyone who commit acts of […]

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CA Assembly Bill Would Create Alert System For Hit-and-Run Crashes

By Damien Newton | Jun 13, 2014 | No Comments

It is too common a story. A family is crossing the street or some friends are bicycling along when a negligent car driver changes their lives forever. While the victims lie wounded in the street, the driver flees and is never heard from again. Advocates for safe streets, victims of hit-and-run crashes, and their friends […]

Legal System Fails Again: No Charges for Trucker Who Killed Amelie

By Aaron Bialick | May 14, 2014 | 27 Comments

Note: Amelie Le Moullac’s mother, Jessie Jewitt, and other Bay Area musicians will perform at a benefit concert on Friday in Palo Alto at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to Amélie’s Angels, “a fund dedicated to bringing the gifts of education, food, clothing, toys, and most importantly love and laughter, to the children of Haiti.” The truck […]

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Six Months for Killing Hanren Chang: Even Drunk Drivers Get Off Easy

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 10, 2014 | 16 Comments

It’s hard to imagine a more egregiously clear-cut case where a driver deserves a harsh prison term than when drunk driver Kieran Brewer ran over and killed a minor inside a crosswalk. Surely, unlike other cases where sober drivers killed pedestrians and faced few consequences, these circumstances would spur the judicial system into action. Yet Brewer was sentenced […]

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