Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Justice

A Reality Check for the DA’s New Traffic Safety Campaign

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 10, 2012 | 37 Comments

For a district attorney who wants to save lives on the streets, using data to target the most dangerous traffic behaviors should be a no-brainer. But the new traffic safety ad campaign announced today by San Francisco DA George Gascón seems to use little application of crash data collected by his own former police department. The three versions of the ad, which […]

SFPD Won’t Hold Driver Responsible for Running Over, Killing Sleeping Man

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 7, 2012 | 64 Comments

On October 23, 55-year-old Elvis Presley was sleeping on a sidewalk on Third Street near Bryant when he was run over and killed by a 28-year-old woman pulling her car out of a garage. Contrary to media reports, police confirmed that the woman was driving forward, not backing out, onto the sidewalk. Presley’s death was […]

World’s Most Entitled Driver Sentenced to Wear “Idiot” Sign

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 7, 2012 | No Comments

Need a break from election coverage? Check out this shoo-in for the bad driver hall of fame: In an attempt to avoid waiting behind a school bus unloading children, a Cleveland-area woman was caught driving on the sidewalk. But after some unorthodox punishment, handed down by a local judge, we’re guessing 32-year-old Shena Hardin won’t […]

Divided By a Highway, East Palo Alto Looks to Reconnect Its West Side

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

This is the first in a series of stories on East Palo Alto’s proposed bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing. It takes Maria del Socorro Macias about 40 minutes to walk from her neighborhood on the west side of East Palo Alto to her kids’ schools on the east side of Highway 101. To get there, she […]

Charges on Hold for DUI Driver Who Killed Man on Bayshore at the Hairball

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

The SF District Attorney’s office has put charges on hold against the driver who killed pedestrian Francisco Huarcha-Salanic, 31, on Bayshore Boulevard on the dangerous junction with Highway 101 known as the “Hairball.” The driver, 25-year-old Caitlin Rea, was arrested for driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter after hitting and killing Huarcha-Salanic at 12:40 a.m. on September […]

See Driver Hit Bike Cop. See Driver Run. See Driver Get Arrested.

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 24, 2012 | 15 Comments

Reader Sean Rea witnessed a pretty brazen act of dangerous and petty driving behavior last Thursday on downtown Mission Street: Another hit-and-run on a vulnerable street user. But it wasn’t just any ordinary victim this driver knicked and fled from. It was an officer of the SF Police Department: I was riding down Mission (due to closure of Howard […]

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