Several people were killed in San Jose this weekend in a deadly Highway 101 crash which may be linked to distracted driving. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a Los Angeles driver and two of his passengers were killed Saturday shortly before 1 a.m.
Hayward police say that a pedestrian was killed after he was struck by a 26-year-old motorcyclist at the intersection of Jackson Street and Silva Avenue. The crash happened Saturday around 9 p.m. according to officers. Responding officers found the 66-year-old pedestrian lying on the corner of the intersection and the motorcyclist was lying several feet from the intersection.
Bad News Bears star Sammi Kane Kraft recently died in a car accident in Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol says that the 20-year-old actress was in an Audi with a drunk driver who rear-ended a semi-truck last Tuesday around 1:30 a.m.
In our last post we discussed a serious mass transit accident which occured when a truck ran the cross-arms of a railroad crossing and was struck by a commuter train containing 169 people. The passengers described the horrible feeling they had when the accident occurred, derailing half of the train’s cars.
Chaos erupted in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood after a bold daytime iPad theft caused a traffic accident last Wednesday. Authorities say that a man plucked an iPad from a Peet’s Coffee shop patron’s hands and jumped into a waiting SUV with two accomplices.