A 12 year old boy was killed outside of his middle school last month after being struck by a SUV driven by the mother of another classmate. Burgess Hu, a student at Excelsior Middle School, was hit in front of the school as parents dropped their…
A mother, 35-year-old Christy Svanemyr, and 11-month-old baby girl go to the park one day on a sunny day. She is run over and killed by a park worker while she is sunbathing on the grass. Can you imagine the horror and the aftermath for this…
Food recalls are sweeping the country this month with companies issuing immediate notices to send back food due to possible listeria contamination. Over 22,000 pounds of chicken, ham, and beef, sent to retailers and distributors in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansa
Are you tired of hearing about automobile recalls? Automakers this year have announced 143 recalls in only 273 days, affecting almost 18.5 million cars, well north of new vehicle sales this year. Recalls have been on the rise in recent years, as nearly half a century of data…
In the wake of three recalls earlier this year, both automobile and motorcycle manufacturers Nissan and Suzuki are issuing further recalls primarily for safety issues involving inadequate stopping power for both cars and motorcycles. Nissan is set to recall approximately 153,000 of their sport utili
Tragically another cyclist is dead after being run over by a San Francisco Muni bus this past Friday, October 18, 2013. The fatal bicycle crash, occurring at 8:40pm, shut down the streets surrounding the Bryant and Division intersection. Although little is currently known of the events surrounding t
The female driver of a silver Mercedes SUV, Jennie Zhu, faces vehicular manslaughter charges after the Friday, September 27 6:55 a.m. car crash at Pine and Gough Streets in San Francisco. Slamming her car violently into the back of the minivan driven by 16-year-old Kevin San’s…
It has been nearly three weeks since 52 year old Bipin Patel was struck and killed by a driver as he pedaled home from work one afternoon. Patel, who lived just three miles from his job, was struck on Great Mall Parkway by a maroon SUV going…
Whether you have been along for the ride or you are slow to arrive, social media is growing exponentially, and Facebook and Twitter, among other social sites, are common household names. For better or worse, social networking sites spread information faster than any other media.…
Four tourists were hospitalized in a San Francisco tour bus accident last month after a double-decker open-air tour bus struck a low hanging power line. The tour bus accident occurred in the 400 block of 12th avenue, near Geary Boulevard, and involved a bus owned by Big Bus Tours San Francisco. The
San Francisco crashes can get pretty dramatic and complicated, as evidenced by this recent truck vs. taxi collision, which sent three people to the hospital, one with life-threatening injuries. Please understand that I am not in any way making light of this crash or of the…
The California Highway Patrol is requesting the public’s assistance in finding the driver of a Ford pickup truck which reportedly struck and killed a pedestrian in San Jose. The San Jose truck accident occurred at approximately 8:45pm last Saturday night near Alum Rock and Harriet avenues. The truck
