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CA Assembly Bill Would Create Alert System For Hit-and-Run Crashes
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 and family say that there are not enough resources or legal protections for victims.
June 13, 2014
Man on Bike, 51, Seriously Injured in Crash on Laguna Near Broadway
A 51-year-old man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after he collided his bike into an SUV whose driver was pulling into a mid-block garage, on Laguna Street near Broadway. SFPD reported that the man was headed in the downhill, northbound direction on Laguna, "and failed to stop at a stop sign" before crashing into the right side of the SUV.
May 27, 2014
Fundraiser for Nikita May, 3-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized by Driver on Fulton
Three-year-old Nikita May remains in recovery at SF General Hospital, after being hit on his bike by a pickup truck driver at Fulton Street and 43rd Avenue on April 10. Friends, family, and community members have set up a fundraiser to help the family see him return to health.
May 12, 2014
Six Months for Killing Hanren Chang: Even Drunk Drivers Get Off Easy
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.
April 10, 2014
Fourth Pedestrian Killed by Driver on Deadly Van Ness This Year
A car driver struck and killed a man who was crossing Van Ness at Golden Gate Avenue at about 11 p.m. last night. According to the SFPD, "Early reports indicate that the pedestrian was not in the crosswalk," but the crash is still under investigation. Police didn't say how fast the driver was going, or how close to the crosswalk the victim may have been.
April 7, 2014
SFPD Finds SUV in Crash That Killed Oi Yeung, 82; Driver Still at Large
SFPD has found the SUV in the crash that killed 82-year-old Oi Yeung in a crosswalk at Bayshore Boulevard and Visitacion Avenue Thursday morning, after which the driver fled the scene. The SF Chronicle reported that police located the white Dodge Durango seen by witnesses and in video footage near the intersection where the crash occurred, but that no arrests have been made.
March 25, 2014
SFPD: No Charges for Trucker Who Killed Woman, 91, on Fillmore Street
Police have declared no wrongdoing on the part of a cement truck driver who ran over and killed a 91-year-old woman on Fillmore at California Street last Thursday afternoon. According to reports, the woman was crossing Fillmore mid-block, in front of the stopped truck, when the driver began driving forward and ran her over. She was taken to SF General Hospital where she died of her injuries:
February 24, 2014
Speeding Driver Arrested for Killing Pedestrian, Walking Away on Van Ness
SFPD has arrested 27-year-old Mageb Hussain of Emeryville for hitting and killing an unidentified pedestrian on Van Ness at Pacific Avenue at about 1 a.m. last night. Hussain was reportedly driving a rental car and attempted to walk away from the scene of the crash.
February 12, 2014
SFPD Arrests Driver for Manslaughter for Killing Man on Sunset Boulevard
The SFPD has arrested, cited, and released a driver for killing 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon as he crossed Sunset Boulevard at Yorba Street in the Outer Sunset Tuesday at about 11 a.m. This is the third known instance of the SFPD arresting a driver who killed a pedestrian, and wasn't drunk or fleeing the scene, since New Year's Eve. Previously, such drivers typically faced no legal penalties.
February 6, 2014
“Pissed-Off Voters” to Mayor: “Be Nice, Look Twice” an Insult to Victims
The League of Pissed-Off Voters is, well, pissed off about Mayor Ed Lee's lighthearted tone in his "Be Nice, Look Twice" campaign -- his answer to the maiming and killing of San Franciscans by reckless drivers.
January 24, 2014