A San Francisco man charged with causing a head-on-crash that killed a local photojournalist and her daughter was granted a bail reduction yesterday morning in San Mateo County Superior Court.
Wen Tu Mei, 37, faces two counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of crossing over a divided highway causing death for the Jan. 30 collision that killed San Francisco Examiner photographer Susan Caldwell, 41, and her daughter Nina Garrison, 14.
Mei's family has claimed that Mei, who was seriously injured in the crash, is not getting adequate medical care in the San Mateo County Jail. This morning Mei's defense attorney May Mar asked Superior Court Judge Jonathan Karesh to release Mei on his own recognizance. The judge denied the request. However, he reduced Mei's bail from $500,000 to $100,000.
According to the police reports and accident reconstruction evidence, Mei was evidently driving south in the northbound lane on South San Francisco's Bayshore Boulevard when his minivan hit Caldwell's 2000 Honda Accord head-on about 2:05 p.m. Caldwell was pronounced dead at the scene, and Garrison was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital.
Mei, a married father of toddler son and an infant daughter, suffered numerous injuries. Mei's left leg was amputated and he remained hospitalized in a non-responsive state for several months before his May 27 arrest. Mei is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 26 to set further proceedings in the case.
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Mitch, thanks for exposing more democrat corruption and I guess I am terrible and I want babies to go diaperless.
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