I’ve tracked at least 26 motorist fatalities in California this week as of this morning. These are DOA as handled by the CHP and pronounced on state highways. This does not include the cyclist killed by the 27-Bryant bus this morning in San Francisco. Driver in Menlo Park accidentally hit the gas, jumps the curb, […]
The Merc-News reports an eleven year old girl perished after a rollover crash on I-280 near Page Mill Road. The driver lost control and flipped her Ford F-150 pickup truck several times. Three passengers, including the girl, were ejected from the truck. If you read the Highway Patrol dispatch log (read bottom to top), you’ll […]
Juveniles in a stolen car lost control and slammed into a house, rupturing a gas line that exploded, destroying one house and substantially damaging the house next door. Also: Discussion on those ad hoc roadside memorials marking traffic fatalities in Mr Roadshow’s column in the Mercury News.
While cycling to work this morning I watched a group of fourth graders from Don Callejon School in Santa Clara walk to the River Oaks light rail station for a field trip. They crossed Lick Mill Boulevard as a tight little group, with motorists waiting patiently for the 40 or so kids to cross. I […]
This weekend’s tally of traffic collisions around the San Francisco Bay Area included these incidents.
Busy weekend in the Bay Area.