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• Crossing the Double Yellow Line-Mistake or Bad Choice?

  Claude Wyle | August 17, 2007 2:12 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  For outraged commentary by friends and foes of bad biker Joe Silver who caused Harley rider Sam terrible fractures and other personal injuries, and caused the wrongful death of Ronda Anaya, check the link above. Our motorcycle accident attorneys represent the injured Harley rider Sam, and I can tell you that Sam is in agony both physically and emotionally every day. Whether he ever recovers...

• Food Poisoning: A Deadly Danger to Children

  Claude Wyle | November 07, 2006 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  After spending more than a week in trial in Martinez, in Contra Costa County, California in a food poisoning case, the judge ordered a mistrial. Our client, a beautiful six year old girl, got Salmonella food poisoning from a restaurant that had repeatedly failed to get a health department permit to operate. They were still selling food to the public, despite repeated failures to get a permit!...

• 11-year-old Oakland Girl Killed By a Hit-and-Run Driver

  Claude Wyle | October 23, 2009 3:12 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Alana Williams, a sixth-grader at Frick Middle School in East Oakland, was killed on October 16, 2009, as she walked through a crosswalk at a busy intersection on her way to school. Muni ...

• Portable Electric Heaters Recalled Due to Fire Hazard

  Jenny Albano | February 20, 2008 7:46 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Aloha Housewares Inc., in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling about 152,000 Portable Electric Heaters due to a fire hazard.These heaters can overheat and plastic parts can melt posing a fire hazard to consumers. The company so far has received 29 reports of the portable electric heaters melting, smoking, and/or catching fire and 18 reports of general damage. There has also been one report...

• Muni Bus Strikes Pedestrian

  Claude Wyle | October 08, 2007 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Early Tuesday morning, a Muni Bus struck a pedestrian at the corner of 6th and Market Street, in San Francisco, California. Passengers on the bus screamed at the driver to stop, but it was too late, the bus slammed right into the woman. The pedestrian survived, but suffered severe injuries. Police are currently investigating the incident, which is the 18th pedestrian versus Muni accident this...

• Proposed Bill Will Prevent Child Drowning Deaths

  Claude Wyle | July 23, 2007 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  After the recent drowning of a 4-year-old boy, Great America is now requiring all children under 4 feet tall wear life vests in its pools. The mother of the boy was not in the pool at the time of the drowning and blames lifeguards for not spotting her son until it was too late. Will the new requirement save lives, or will it simply provide a false sense of security? Perhaps a better rule...

• Reckless Teen Kills Three in Deadly Auto Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 24, 2007 1:58 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Last night a reckless teenage driver took the lives of three others, as he raced at nearly triple the speed limit on a curvy road in Almaden Valley, San Jose. This auto fatality occurred when the reckless driver first struck an elderly couple who were pedestrians standing at the side of the road, and then smashed into two trees. The elderly couple, the driver, and his passenger all suffered...

• Texas Toddler Bitten by Dog

  Shannon Weidemann | June 26, 2007 11:09 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  A 2-year-old girl was bitten by a dog outside of her Tyler, Texas home and had to receive 80 stitches. The girl was outside with her mother when she left her mother's site and was attacked. The dog bites were on her head. The attack happened last Wednesday. I come running around the house and there she was coming to find me. Her head was just blood was everywhere. Scared me I didn't know...

• Death of Fremont Child in Car Crash: No Safety Restraints

  Claude Wyle | November 15, 2006 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  On Sunday night, a 4 year old Fremont girl was killed in an automobile collision on Interstate Highway 880, when a San Leandro woman crashed her Mustang into a Mitsubishi, that flipped into oncoming traffic. The Mitsubishi then struck a Toyota Sequoia SUV head on. Although eight people suffered personal injuries in this multi car accident, the child that was killed was not properly restrained...

• Fifty injured in San Francisco public transit accident.

  Claude Wyle | July 21, 2009 3:11 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  In the last three months, nine people have been killed, and more than 170 injured in a series of crashes on the nation’s aging public transit systems. This horrific streak began in Boston, on...