A 56-year-old woman recently suffered critical personal injuries when she was hit by a SUV at the intersection of Geneva Avenue and Prague Street. Authorities say that the crash happened right outside of San Francisco’s Crocker Amazon Playground.
Investigators say that a GMC Yukon hit the woman as she was crossing the street. The driver stayed at the scene of the accident and cooperated with police.
In our last post we discussed a San Leandro car accident that caused a 2-year-old to sustain a broken neck. The crash happened because the toddler’s mother was forced to stop on the highway when the driver in front of her started doing Sideshow tricks.
An elderly Petaluma couple was killed last Friday when their BMW was hit by a semi-truck. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the trucker who slammed into the couple head-on claims to have been choking on food at the time of the accident.
Saint Patrick’s Day is one of the most widely celebrated drinking holidays in California. The number of drunk driving car accidents that occur on St. Patty’s Day weekend often rival the numbers seen on New Year’s Eve and July 4th.
Construction sites invariably rely on large trucks, defined as those with a gross vehicle weight rating over 10,000 pounds, to pour concrete and move heavy materials. The presence of large trucks puts motorists in passenger vehicles at a greater risk for truck accidents, and accidents involving large trucks can be more likely to result in fatalities, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
A 36-year-old Vacaville motorcyclist was killed in a recent big-rig accident. CBS San Francisco reports that the accident happened at the intersection of Nut Tree Road and Fairview Drive.
Authorities say that a 25-year-old man is dead and his passenger is severely injured after a Vacaville car accident that happened on Monday morning. The San Francisco man and his passenger were traveling on westbound I-80 between Mason Street and Allison Drive when he left the road and slammed into a tree.
A San Francisco police officer was injured early Monday morning after an alleged drunk driver slammed head-on into his car at the corner of Mission and 19th Streets. The Bay City News Service reports that this car accident happened shortly before 1 a.m. and that the 22-year-old suspected drunk driver was speeding on 19th Street when he crossed into traffic and hit the squad car.
Plummeting temperatures around the Bay Area are responsible for a slew of car accidents this morning including pileups in Berkeley and the Oakland hills. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a San Mateo crash was also blamed on black ice caused by the recent freezing temperatures.
Authorities say that two car accidents which happened this morning were caused by black ice on San Pablo Dam Road between Richmond and Orinda. One motorist said that her car slid down a steep embankment and smacked into a tree after she hit a patch of black ice. Photographs of the crash scene show the woman wrapped in a police jacket and her badly damaged white car being towed away.