Car Accidents

A San Francisco family was involved in a deadly Thanksgiving weekend car accident according to a report from KGO-TV. The family was coming back from their Thanksgiving celebrations in the East Bay when their Prius collided head-on with a mini-van on Highway 50 near Placerville.

A recent study into car accident data indicates that fatal car crashes peak during Thanksgiving week. Researchers say that weather, drunk driving, and increased numbers of people on the road all contribute to a higher rate of fatal crashes during turkey week. Researchers from the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety define Thanksgiving week

This summer we blogged about the federal government giving funds to California to help stop texting-and-driving on local roads. The Dept. of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced plans further its grant program to fight texting-while-driving in other states, including a $550,000 grant to Massachusetts and Connecticut.

CBS San Francisco is reporting that a fiery Brentwood car accident has killed one and injured two. The accident happened Monday afternoon near the intersection of Vasco Road and Camino Diablo Road. Authorities say that a 21-year-old Oakley man lost control of his vehicle and veered into oncoming traffic.

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.

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.

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.

Car accidents impact a wide variety of individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area every day. Two of the most recent prominent area car accidents involve San Francisco 49er Aldon Smith and an airport caterer. Aldon Smith was a passenger in a car which crashed into a tree in Santa Clara County last Friday. The accident

Authorities in Sacramento are receiving $1.5 million in federal money which will support law enforcement efforts to prevent texting while driving car accidents. Texting is a leading cause of distracted driving car accidents, which kill over 3,000 people annually. Despite being illegal in California, millions of drivers text every day and state studies have shown

Several recent San Francisco Bay Area traffic accidents have raised safety concerns surrounding the prevalence of bad driving behavior which kills hundreds of Californians every year.