Yesterday I reported that a Cincinnati couple was killed when the brakes failed on the DeSoto cab they were riding in and the cab crashed into a freeway support column and caught fire.
The passengers were Dennis and Karen Marshall of Columbia Township. They arrived in San Francisco on Monday and hailed a cab at the airport to take them to their hotel.cab driver, Fageh Hassan Behbahani, 49, of Daly City, is now under criminal investigation for not pulling over when he first smelled smoke 2 miles before the crash.
Behbahani told investigators he and the Marshalls smelled smoke in…
I was very sorry to hear that a couple from Ohio vacationing in San Francisco died yesterday when the DeSoto taxi they were riding in crashed on an Interstate 280 off-ramp. In addition to the death of the two taxi passengers, the taxi driver was seriously injured, and two sheriff’s deputies who helped pull the victims out of the car were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
According to the CHP, the couple was on the way from SFO to the Mark Hopkins hotel on Nob Hill when the cab’s brakes apparently failed. The taxi cab crash was reported at 10:57 a.m.…
