Late Tuesday night, 5/15/2012, a man riding his bicycle was struck and killed by a car in a hit and run collision. The suspect was driving down Dougherty Road to San Ramon when the collision occurred. Police were called to the roadway near Dougherty and Fall Creek near 11:30p.m. Bo Hu, a 57 year old man who was believed to be traveling abroad, was pronounced dead at the scene. Though no witnesses have come forward [...]
A triple stabbing that occurred very early Saturday morning resulted in the death of a 15-year-old in a car accident on Sunday April 29, 2012. While trying to transport one of the stab-wound victims, a truck running a red light on the Balfour Road/Walnut Avenue intersection in Brentwood broadsided their car and flipped it, trapping the driver and passengers underneath. Ashley Malone, one of the several passengers in the struck car, was trapped underneath the wreck [...]
Early Tuesday morning, around 8a.m., a construction worker spreading metal decking on the second floor of a building in Palo Alto High School fell nearly fourteen feet onto a concrete floor. The resulting injuries were severe enough to require surgery; a broken hip and several broken facial bones. Thankfully, the 24 year old worker had been wearing his hardhat. Palo Alto firefighters were called, and arrived to transport the worker to the Stanford University Medical [...]
Around 2p.m. on Saturday, two people were injured in a two-car accident on eastbound Interstate Highway 580 in Castro Valley, just west of Lake Chabot Regional Park. The driver of a Chrysler Sebring suddenly veered to the left, shifting into the left-hand lane and colliding with a Jeep Cherokee. Both cars then careened northeast into the road’s concrete divide. California Highway Patrol officers found the driver of the Chrysler, a 27-year-old woman, unconscious, and the [...]
A fatal accident on I-580 resulted in the death of a woman from Manteca. This incident reportedly occurred at 5:30p.m., due west of North Flynn Road. 24 year old Chelsie Encinas was killed in a collision on eastbound I-580, the Alameda County coroner bureau said. According to comments left on a story at the Pleasanton Weekly, the victim worked at the San Ramon Regional Medical Center. Further information has yet to be released.
Friday night, two separate motorcycle incidents in Antioch injured one and took the life of another. A 28 year old man from Bay Point, Andrew Ignacio, was flung from his motorcycle after failing to stop at the Garrow Drive intersection as he was heading west on Davidson Drive. At approximately 6:17p.m., Ignacio collided with a southbound Chevy SUV driven by 52 year old Jack Chapman. Ignacio was taken to a local hospital where he was [...]
Former state government employee, Robb Deignan, who was injured in a crash during the annual 100-mile Foxy’s Fall Century bike race on Saturday, died Sunday at around 9:30 a.m. at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. The Solano County coroner’s office is conducting an autopsy at the request of Fairfield police. Deignan was seriously injured when he lost control of his bike while descending Hilborn Road around 10:30 a.m. and went down just before [...]
A 64-year-old bicyclist participating in race lost control of his bicycle on a decline and sustained a major head injury on Sunday. Fairfield police responded to the crash near the intersection of Solano Foothills Boulevard and Hilborn Road at 10:30 a.m. They reported that the bicyclist was wearing a helmet but due to the speed involved, he still sustained serious head trauma. The man was airlifted by Cal Star to John Muir Hospital in Walnut [...]
A motorcyclist received major injuries Friday night after crashing head-on with a BMW Sedan on Marsh Creek Road in Concord, according to the California Highway Patrol. The accident happened on Aspara Drive near the county detention facility. The motorcylist was airlifted to to John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek. (Sources: Mercury News, SF Gate)
The driver of a BMW, 21 year old Harrison Sanders of Concord, crashed into a parked car and flipped over just before 2 A.M. on Wednesday, October 5th. Neighbors on Windmill Canyon Drive were awoken by what was described as a noise sounding like a gas explosion. According to police, an intoxicated Sanders lost control on a curve, scattering trash cans at a curb of Windmill Canyon Drive and crashed into a 2008 Chevrolet Impala. The [...]