As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, an electric motorcycle entrepreneur from the Bay Area was killed in a personal injury accident on Monday.

The 29 year-old injury victim was riding his motorcycle near Coddingtown Mall at approximately 10:40 a.m. Monday morning when he was involved in a personal injury accident with a Prius.

San Francisco Bay Area authorities have reported that the motorcycle collided with the side of the Prius and the motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene.  The driver of the Prius did not suffer any injuries, according to reports.

The accident is still under investigation by authorities and fault has not yet been determined.

The injury victim was founder of Santa Rosa based Electric Race Bikes.  The San Francisco Chronicle story can be read here.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the injury victims from the personal injury accident involving an SUV on Tuesday, which left five people injured, is still in critical condition at San Francisco General.

We reported the injury accident here on San Francisco Personal Injury Law Answers (click here).

According to the Chronicle, three of the other four injury victims are in serious condition and the other is listed as fair.

The driver of the SUV involved in the accident was cited for driving without a license or proper insurance.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a SUV jumped onto a sidewalk causing serious personal injuries to at least five individuals today in San Francisco.

The personal injury accident took place in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley.  The injury victims were both male and female and ranged in ages from 30 to 80.  According to reports, the accident took place at approximately 9:36 a.m. at the corner of San Bruno and Arleta avenues.

The SUV was a Ford Explorer.  The driver of the Explorer was a 24 year old female who told police that she lost control of her vehicle due to brake failure.

Initial reports indicate that some of the injury victims were very seriously injured.  All injured were taken to nearby San Francisco General Hospital for emergency care and treatment.

The accident is still under investigation.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Frank Ryan of Hollywood, California was killed in a personal injury accident on Monday when his vehicle went off a cliff near his home in Malibu.

Dr. Ryan was a famous plastic surgeon in the Los Angeles area.

According to the San Francisco paper, the doctor was texting while he was driving, or at least seconds before the accident.

Texting while driving as well as driver inattention is a leading cause of personal injury accidents.  Here at San Francisco Personal Injury Law Answers we have written about the dangers of distractions while driving and even produced a video on the subject – see personal injury risk due to technology.

According to reports, the doctor’s dog – Jill – was in the car with him at the time of the crash.  The dog suffered head injuries as well as injuries to her paw and eye.

The official cause of the accident has not yet been determined.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a 36 year old San Francisco man is being held pending felony charges related to a hit-and-run accident and death of a bicyclist in the city.

The suspect was charged with suspicion of felony hit and run causing death, as well as gross vehicular manslaughter, felony drunken driving and other related charges.

The accident took place near Turk Street on Masonic Avenue at approximately 10:40 p.m. Friday night.  Witnesses at the scene conveyed to police a description of the vehicle involved and the suspect was arrested not long thereafter.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a personal injury accident involving a hit and run took place in San Francisco’s Mission district today.

According to the San Francisco paper, police stated that an injury victim was killed at the corner of 19th and Folsom streets when someone crashed their car into the man at approximately 4:15 a.m.

The San Francisco medical examiner’s office stated today that the injury victim’s injuries indicated that he had in fact been struck by a car.  The vehicle and driver fled the scene, however, and there have been no witnesses to come forward immediately with a description of the driver or the vehicle involved, according to the San Francisco paper.

Individuals with information regarding this personal injury accident and death are asked to come forward and contact the San Francisco police at (415) 553-1575.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a Grayhound bus heading to Sacramento was involved in a personal injury accident this morning causing the death of six (6) and injuring nine (9) others.

The accident took place on Highway 99 shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday morning.

CHP work the scene of a bus accident that left 9 passengers seriously injured and killed 6 inlcuding the driver (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, John Walker)

The Grayhound was headed to Los Angeles and was carrying 36 passengers.  According to the San Francisco paper and other media reports, it appears that the driver swerved to avoid another accident involving a SUV but struck the vehicle and then slammed into a concrete divide.  The bus then apparently went off the shoulder of the road and down a fifteen-foot embankment smashing the front of the bus into rubble against a tree.

The driver was among those killed in the accident.  Many of the passengers suffered serious injuries and were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.  The additional passengers were eventually picked up by another Grayhound bus and taken to their final destination.

Both Northbound lanes of Highway 99 were closed for several hours as emergency personnel and police worked the scene of the crash.

According to the San Francisco paper, authorities are still investigating the accident as well as the initial accident that the bus driver was attempting to avoid when he collided with the SUV.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, authorities now believe that a personal injury accident that that took place over the weekend in Malibu and that caused the deaths of two individuals may have not been an accident after all.

Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu

According to the San Francisco paper, the accident took place at about 12:40 a.m. Friday on the Pacific Coast Highway when a Saturn and a Ford Mustang collided head on and the Saturn burst into flames on impact.

At the time of the collision the Saturn was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of the highway.

But a witness reported that the driver of the Saturn attempted to hit his vehicle prior to the crash, however, the witness was able to avoid a collision.

Two naval officers from the Port Hueneme base were in the Mustang – the driver was killed and the passenger suffered serious personal injuries including a broken leg and two broken arms.  The driver of the Saturn was killed as well.

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s office is investigating the collision.

A fifteen (15) year old girl is dead after being injured in a high speed chase that took CHP officers and a fleeing felon through the streets of San Jose.

The girl was injured when the car that she was riding in was struck by the suspect’s vehicle after he fled CHP.  The California Highway Patrol was pursing the suspect in such a high risk high speed chase because he had made an illegal turn.  It was only after the chase that the officers learned that the suspect, who is now being held on murder charges, had a previous felony and a history of running from police.

And this unfortunate death of an innocent bystander due to a high speed chase by law enforcement is not as uncommon as you might think.  According to the San Jose Mercury News, 424 injury victims have been killed as a result of high speed police pursuits across the country.  40 of those deaths have taken place in California.  And we are second only to Texas, which had 44.

Pursuits like the one in this case – in an urban environment – are risky.  And the risks are well known.  There are many people who disagree with the decision of police to engage in high speed chases in situations like this one.

PursuitWatch.org is an organization that advocates pursuing suspects only when they are suspected of committing a violent crime. This is the policy of the San Jose’s police department but apparently not that of CHP.

As quoted by the San Jose paper, John Philips, head of PursuitWatch stated, “What we have here is a dumb young criminal making another poor decision . . . . We should not compound their bad decisions with our own.”  Well said.

As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a motorcyclist died in a personal injury accident on I 80 last night.

The accident took place on the on-ramp to the southbound lane of Interstate 80 just after 7:20.  The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering serious personal injuries in the accident.

The accident is currently under investigation by the California Highway Patrol, according to the San Francisco paper.