Recent Streetsblog SF posts about hit-and-run

Policeman Runs Down Two People, Media Focus on Cop’s Good Looks

By Roger Rudick | Dec 2, 2015 | 6 Comments

Reading the headlines over my morning coffee yesterday, I was flummoxed by the way the media approached an incident that happened over the Thanksgiving weekend. According to the reports, an off-duty San Francisco cop named Christopher Kohrs, 38, was driving a Dodge Charger westbound on Broadway around 2 a.m. on Sunday when he slammed into […]

Another Murder by Car, Another Slap on the Wrist

By Roger Rudick | Oct 22, 2015 | No Comments

Three years ago, Spencer Freeman Smith was living in San Ramon and working in San Francisco as a labor attorney. After a night of drinking with a paralegal, he got in his car, drove towards his home, and ran over Bo Hu, a 57-year-old financial advisor visiting from China, on Dougherty Road in Dublin. Hu […]