Automobile Accidents

• Berkeley Pedestrian Dies From Head Injuries

  Claude Wyle | July 10, 2007 3:57 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  A Livermore California man who was struck last month in the crosswalk by a careless driver while crossing Telegraph Avenue at Blake Street , sustained severe head injuries, and died this last Thursday. According to the Berkeley PD, the negligent driver was arrested for driving while impaired. There may be further charges now that this is a wrongful death . Walk defensively! Even though you are...

• Boy Hurt in Bicycle Accident in Napa

  Shannon Weidemann | April 17, 2007 6:38 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  An 11-year-old boy from Round Mountain was injured while riding his bicycle in Napa. He was hit by a man driving a car down the same road he was riding his bike on. The driver of the car is a 42-year-old resident of the area.The victim suffered a head injury, broken arm, lacerated liver and kidney. He was initially taken to Queen of the Valley Medical Center and transferred to the Oakland...

• Injured Bicyclist Close to $150,000.00 Settlement

  Claude Wyle | October 01, 2007 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Approximately three years ago, San Francisco Police Officer, Philip Welsh, crashed into Robert Kellogg, a bicyclist. Officer Welsh was on duty and in uniform when he collided with Kellogg in San Francisco's "North Beach" District. Instead of trying to assist Kellogg, Officer Welsh fled before providing the injured cyclist with his full name or address, and never filed an accident report. ...

• Reckless Teen Driver Causes Fatal Auto Accident

  Claude Wyle | September 28, 2007 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Rachel Vargas, a 14-year-old, was killed when the car she rode in lost control and slammed into the center divider on Interstate 680, near Pleasanton. Vargas was one of four passengers in a car driven by 19-year-old Drori Levi. Police say he was driving at an extremely high rate of speed, which likely was the cause of this auto accident. No criminal charges have been filed against Levi. It...

• Mill Valley Man Dies in Fatal Auto Accident

  Claude Wyle | July 27, 2007 7:29 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Investigators are still searching for the cause of an auto accident that left a Mill Valley man dead. The accident occurred on June 18, 2007 when a Mill Valley man unexplainably veered off Ridgecrest Boulevard on Mount Tamalpais and down a 400 cliff. Recent toxicology results were negative.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

• Guilty! Bus Driver Injures Bicyclist

  Claude Wyle | July 18, 2007 8:56 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Golden Gate Transit is increasing training around bicyclists after a Marin jury recently found a driver guilty on charges related to a bus versus bicycle accident. The incident occurred on February 5, 2006 when a rider tapped on a bus and the angered the bus driver then allegedly attempted to run the cyclist off the road before intentionally hitting the rider at a bus stop on Ward Street near...

• Murder Conviction Upheld In Oakland Car Crash

  Claude Wyle | November 19, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  The conviction for second-degree murder of a driver in a car crash who killed another driver while being chased by police in Oakland, California, was upheld by an appeals court in San Francisco on 11-16-2006. The reckless driver was originally convicted in Alameda County Superior Court, and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison because he deliberately acted with conscious disregard for the...

• Jail Time for SUV Driver Who Fled Scene of Car v. Bicycle Accident

  Claude Wyle | November 16, 2006 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  An SUV driver involved in a car v. bicycle crash, which caused a spinal cord injury and head injuries, to the cyclist, received three years probation and 90 days in County Jail on Monday, not because he was at fault, but because he fled the scene of a bicycle v. car accident. While the fault for the paralysis and the head injuries to the cyclist is disputed, the SUV driver was prosecuted because...

• Safety Tips to Prevent Bicycle Accident Injuries

  Staff Writer | October 13, 2006 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  Over half a million riders suffer bicycle accident injuries that require hospital visits every year. About 15 percent of those go to the hospital with head injuries. I ran across an article from a Massachusetts newspaper that offered some simple safety tips for avoiding injuries while riding:Every time anyone gets on a bike, they should wear a helmet, even for a short trip.Parents should set a...

• Woman Drives into Walnut Creek Market

  Shannon Weidemann | September 25, 2007 6:21 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA

  A woman driving a car drove into the Martinez Family Produce Market in Walnut Creek on Wednesday afternoon. The driver of the car was not hurt in the car accident. A 10-year-old boy was injured. He was in the market at the time of the accident. The driver, 68, of Walnut Creek, was driving a loaned 2007 Lexus RX 350 when she failed to negotiate a right-hand turn into the market, struck a...