If you’ve read my posts about bicycle accidents before, checked out my blog, or even browsed my website, you know that one of my greatest goals is to reduce injuries and fatalities due to bicycle collisions, through making persons and companies and public entities accountable when they needlessly endanger bicycle riders, and also through advising about safer bicycle riding. The statistics are shocking: 100 or more people per year die from bicycle collisions in California alone. This number is deplorable and should be drastically reduced.
How can we as bicycle riders and bicycle lawyers work toward reducing bicycle deaths, and…
If you’ve been reading my posts, you know I’m a big advocate for Vision Zero, a campaign that San Francisco has been recently adopted to cut pedestrian death and injury in half by 2021. Vision Zero has come on the heels of a dangerous 2014 for pedestrians, with nearly 100 pedestrians killed or seriously injured in the city that year, with driver fault being the cause of over 60% of those injuries.
They say it’s darkest before the dawn, and Vision Zero may just be the dawn San Francisco pedestrians are looking for.
The first stage of the…
John went into work at the construction site thinking about the Giants game later that day, not about whether or not he would eventually require an amputation lawyer. As he was prepping a load for a forklift, the machinery’s driving mechanism malfunctioned, and it caused the vehicle to tip over onto its side. John’s life changed when he was flung forward, casting his arm under the weight of the load, and crushing it beyond repair.
Accidents that involve amputations are traumatic in many ways. The victim will have to live without the use of a limb as well as deal…
As my clients know, I’m not just a bicycle advocate, and not just a pedestrian advocate, I am a safety advocate. And when we’re navigating the busy (and sometimesdangerous) streets of San Francisco, safety is much more important than whether we are walking, pedaling, or driving. I’m of the opinion that everyone needs to do their part to avoid collisions, avoid personal injuries, and generally keep one another safe and secure. In our community, we have rules for good reason, and we should all be following them.
Unsafe cyclists have been a recent target in the news, with many…
Officials are investigating the death of a 37 year old San Francisco man, who was killed in a collision on Highway 101 last week, possibly due to falling asleep at the wheel.
The crash, which occurred near Mill Valley early Saturday morning, involved only one car, which drifted off the roadway, crashing into a tree and bursting into flames, according to Patrick Roth, spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol.
The driver, behind the wheel of a blue 2014 Subaru WRX STI, was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger, a 30 year old man also from San Francisco, was…
