A motorcycle that crashed on the Bay Bridge Thursday afternoon and blocked traffic for about an hour has been cleared from eastbound lanes, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The crash was reported at around 3:45 p.m. and blocked two eastbound middle lanes, CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.The motorcyclist suffered minor injuries, Bartlett said.It did not appear that another vehicle was a factor in the crash, Bartlett said.
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A motorcycle crash is blocking two lanes of eastbound traffic on the Bay Bridge Thursday afternoon, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The crash was reported at around 3:45 p.m., CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.The motorcyclist suffered minor injuries and two middle lanes are blocked as the crash is cleared.A Sig-alert was issued at 4:20 p.m., and Bartlett said the CHP estimates that the lanes could reopen by 4:45 p.m.
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Local and federal authorities are conducting emergency training exercises at the Millbrae BART station on Thursday, a BART spokesman said.Officers from BART police, the FBI and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office are participating in the joint exercise, designed to coordinate response tactics in the event of a public safety emergency on a train, spokesman Jim Allison said."It's any kind of situation that would involve law enforcement needing to access a passenger train," Allison said.
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi are going door-to-door in Japantown on Thursday to talk to merchants and community leaders about the neighborhood’s future.San Francisco’s Japantown is the oldest in the U.S. and one of only three left in the country, Mirkarimi said.The neighborhood “has some of us concerned about its future,” he said. “It’s a wonderful commercial area that needs assistance in modernizing,” such as renovating and seismically retrofitting various buildings.
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A man who was killed when his speeding car crashed into a parked truck in San Francisco’s Bayview District on Wednesday evening has been identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as 42-year-old Herman Frank.The crash happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. near Revere Avenue and Griffith Street.A gold Saturn station wagon was traveling at a “high rate of speed” when it went out of control and slammed into a parked truck, police Officer Albie Esparza said.
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One person was killed when a speeding car crashed into a parked truck in San Francisco’s Bayview District on Wednesday evening, a police spokesman said Thursday. The crash happened shortly after 7:30 p.m. near Revere Avenue and Griffith Street.A gold Saturn station wagon was traveling at a “high rate of speed” when it went out of control and slammed into a parked truck, police Officer Albie Esparza said.
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A crash on San Francisco’s 19th Avenue sent one person to the hospital Thursday morning, a fire dispatcher said.The crash was reported in the area of 19th and Holloway avenues at about 5:50 a.m.One person was transported to a hospital, and the southbound lanes of 19th Avenue had to be shut down briefly, the dispatcher said. He did not have additional details on the incident.
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The San Francisco Police Commission voted 6-1 Wednesday night to allow the Police Department to look into the use of Tasers by officers, nearly a year after shooting down a similar proposal.The decision came after a lively six-hour debate regarding the conducted energy devices, widely known as Tasers.Last March, the commission voted 4-3 against a proposal by then-Police Chief George Gascon to study the use of Tasers by the department.
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A couple involved in a six-hour standoff with a SWAT team in Daly City on Monday pleaded not guilty to gun charges in San Mateo County Superior Court this afternoon.Daly City resident Joseph Camilleri, 29 and his girlfriend Anna Tostanoski, 25, have each been charged with 12 counts of possession of illegal firearms and one count of firing a gun out of a building, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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Redwood City police have arrested two people believed to have taken part in beating Tuesday afternoon in which a teenager was hit in the head with a rock.At about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to the intersection of Howland and Warren streets, where witnesses told police that three to five males in their teens or early 20s had attacked an 18-year-old man.Arriving officers found the victim with serious head injuries and facial lacerations, police said.He was taken to a hospital and was expected to survive, police said.
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The San Francisco Planning Department is holding public meetings Wednesday and Thursday night to discuss environmental issues that might arise from the America's Cup sailing race being held in The City in 2013.The public scoping meetings will help city officials determine what they should focus on when drafting an environmental impact report for the project, which will transform much of San Francisco's northern waterfront to handle the race activity, environmental planner Joy Navarrete said.
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Two couples who are challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday to allow gay and lesbian weddings to take place in the state while their legal case is pending.The couples asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift a stay it issued in August of a lower court decision overturning Proposition 8, the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
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The San Francisco Police Commission is discussing arming officers with Tasers nearly a year after the commission shot down a previous proposal to explore that possibility.The Police Commission voted 4-3 last March against a proposal by then-Police Chief George Gascon to study the use of Taser stun guns by the department.
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A San Bruno man accused of fatally striking a pedestrian in Pacifica on Sunday pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon to charges that include driving under the influence, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.
Leopoldo Tobilla, 57, was arrested after he allegedly drove up to police at Sharp Park Road and Skyline Boulevard and admitted to hitting someone walking in the roadway, police said.
Pacifica police and the California Highway Patrol were conducting an investigation in the area after Scott Garrigan was found dead near the road at about 1:35 a.m.
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U.S. Highway 1 has been shut down in both directions tonight following a potentially fatal crash in Pescadero in unincorporated San Mateo County, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The coroner was en route at about 7:10 p.m. to the scene of the two-vehicle crash in response to one possible fatality, Officer Ralph Caggiano said.The crash was reported at about 6:50 p.m. at Rossi Road.According to early reports, two other vehicle occupants suffered major injuries and three suffered moderate injuries, Caggiano said.
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