It’s common knowledge that cities and counties across the San Francisco Bay Area are struggling to make their budgets. It’s also a fact, however, that millions of dollars are leaving city reserves each year because of legal payouts.
Some examples are as follows:
It costs an average of $23,000 when a piece of city property falls on someone.
It costs an average of $10,000 when roots from city-owned trees grew in the sewer lines.
It costs an average of $1,900 when a city vehicle hit a car.
image of San Francisco by simeon schatz
In less than five years,…
As an avid cyclist and as a parent residing in Mill Valley, CA, I’m particularly interested in learning the most dangerous intersections in my bicycle-friendly town. Mill Valley is very bicycle-oriented and I like to claim that Mill Valley is the birthplace of mountain biking.
Mill Valley residents are, of course, familiar with bicycling groups zooming by on Saturday mornings, sometimes before 8:00 a.m. through our town, and finishing their rides in The Depot square. The mountain bikers tend to congregate on Mt. Tamalpais–all of its trails–at all hours of the day, trying to share the trail with often angry…
As a fellow motorcycle enthusiast and Bay Area Motorcycle Accident Attorney, I cringe every time I read about a serious motorcycle accident with severe injuries. On Thursday, May 31, 2012, a motorcycle injury accident occured in San Jose about 6:00 p.m. when an SUV struck the motorcycle traveling southbound on I-280 near the Meridian Avenue off-ramp, causing serious personal injuries to the motorcyclist.
The injured motorcyslist was taken to Valley Medical Center. According to the CHP, the crash is still under investigation. Initial reports did not indicate that drugs or alcohol played a factor.
Why do I report motorcycle …
I learn too often about bus accidents, where serious injuries occur to pedestrians when hit. I recently learned that on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, a pedestrian was pinned underneath a shuttle busand pinned underneath the bus for a long period of time. This bus pedestrian accident occurred in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood at around 2:18 p.m. at Eddy and Leavenworth Streets.
I was sad to report that the pedestrian’s injuries were considered life-threatening, but thankfully he is expected to survive.
A nearby store surveillance camera happened to capture the shuttle bus accident on film, and it clearly shows the…
A solar eclipse occured last Sunday, May 20th commencing at approximately 4:30 p.m. At 7:10 p.m. at the tail end of the partial eclipse, a 26-year-old San Bruno woman driving a 1997 Audi sedan at the intersection of Grand and Walnut avenues says she was blinded by the sun. Because the driver was blinded by the sun, she claims that did not see a woman and her 10-year-old daughter in the crosswalk and that she struck the pedestrians mistakenly.
It would appear that the glare from the setting sun may have impeded this driver’s view of the intersection, according…
