I feel that it is my duty as a member of the San Francisco Bay Area community to keep the issue of hit-and-run collisions in the news, hoping that the culpable parties can be brought to justice and hoping that, if they are prosecuted, this will be a deterrent to further hit-and-run drivers.
As a San Francisco Pedestrian Accident Attorney, I learn of way too many accidents to pedestrians. The most frustrating pedestrian accidents are when the person causing harm flees the scene. I always ask if the injured person may have suffered less harm had the person who…
I learn too often about bus accidents, where serious injuries occur to pedestrians when hit. I recently learned that on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, a pedestrian was pinned underneath a shuttle busand pinned underneath the bus for a long period of time. This bus pedestrian accident occurred in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood at around 2:18 p.m. at Eddy and Leavenworth Streets.
I was sad to report that the pedestrian’s injuries were considered life-threatening, but thankfully he is expected to survive.
A nearby store surveillance camera happened to capture the shuttle bus accident on film, and it clearly shows the…
A solar eclipse occured last Sunday, May 20th commencing at approximately 4:30 p.m. At 7:10 p.m. at the tail end of the partial eclipse, a 26-year-old San Bruno woman driving a 1997 Audi sedan at the intersection of Grand and Walnut avenues says she was blinded by the sun. Because the driver was blinded by the sun, she claims that did not see a woman and her 10-year-old daughter in the crosswalk and that she struck the pedestrians mistakenly.
It would appear that the glare from the setting sun may have impeded this driver’s view of the intersection, according…
People commonly think of bicyclists as the victims of traffic accidents involving bicycles, and they often are. However, bicyclists also can be a danger to others on the road like pedestrians, who are the least protected of all.
For example, a sixty-seven-year-old woman was severely injured in a crash with a bicyclist while visiting San Francisco with her husband in July 2011. Police reports state that the woman was almost across Mission Street in the crosswalk during the morning rush hour when she was hit by a bicyclist on the Embarcadero.
The 25-year-old bicyclist ran into the woman after…
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of San Francisco’s most famous landmarks and, like Alcatraz, an extremely popular tourist destination. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most hazardous places for pedestrians and bikers because of the mix of avid cyclists, leisure bikers and pedestrians on the bridge’s pathways.
According to an article in the Contra Costa Times, ambulances responded to bicycle accidents on the Golden Gate Bridge an average of once a month between 2000 and 2009. Serious injuries often result from bicycle accidents, especially in places like the bridge, where tourists frequently stop to take photos amid…
