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SFPD: No Charges for Trucker Who Killed Woman, 91, on Fillmore Street

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 24, 2014 | 54 Comments

Police have declared no wrongdoing on the part of a cement truck driver who ran over and killed a 91-year-old woman on Fillmore at California Street last Thursday afternoon. According to reports, the woman was crossing Fillmore mid-block, in front of the stopped truck, when the driver began driving forward and ran her over. She […]

Speeding Driver Arrested for Killing Pedestrian, Walking Away on Van Ness

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 12, 2014 | 9 Comments

SFPD has arrested 27-year-old Mageb Hussain of Emeryville for hitting and killing an unidentified pedestrian on Van Ness at Pacific Avenue at about 1 a.m. last night. Hussain was reportedly driving a rental car and attempted to walk away from the scene of the crash. Police said Hussain faces felony vehicular manslaughter and felony hit and […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Manslaughter for Killing Man on Sunset Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 6, 2014 | 7 Comments

The SFPD has arrested, cited, and released a driver for killing 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon as he crossed Sunset Boulevard at Yorba Street in the Outer Sunset Tuesday at about 11 a.m. This is the third known instance of the SFPD arresting a driver who killed a pedestrian, and wasn’t drunk or fleeing the scene, since New […]

“Pissed-Off Voters” to Mayor: “Be Nice, Look Twice” an Insult to Victims

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2014 | 7 Comments

The League of Pissed-Off Voters is, well, pissed off about Mayor Ed Lee’s lighthearted tone in his “Be Nice, Look Twice” campaign — his answer to the maiming and killing of San Franciscans by reckless drivers. In an open letter to Mayor Lee, titled “Don’t be a Zero: We need public service, not lip service,” the […]

The Life-Altering Impact of Traffic Violence: Jikaiah Stevens’ Story

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 16, 2014 | 6 Comments

Reminder: Today at 5 p.m. at City Hall, a hearing on the SFPD’s treatment of pedestrian and bicycle crashes will be held by the Police Commission and a Board of Supervisors committee. You’re invited to share your thoughts at the Board of Supervisors Chamber, Room 250. We’ve heard the story too many times. A reckless […]

SFPD Arrests Two Drivers After Holiday Spate of Pedestrian Deaths

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 2, 2014 | 24 Comments

In what could be a departure from the SF Police Department’s usual failure to penalize reckless driving, officers have arrested two of the five motorists who have killed people on San Francisco streets since December 20. In the last hours of 2013, the year’s pedestrian death toll increased to 20. Both of the crashes in which […]

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