A 90-year-old woman died after being hit by a car Monday afternoon in Millbrae, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
The collision was reported shortly before 3 p.m. on the 500 block of Richmond Drive. The woman was taken to a hospital and succumbed to her injuries there later that evening, sheriff’s officials said. Her name was not immediately available Tuesday.
The man whose vehicle hit the woman stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has information about it is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (650) 363-4911. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office provides police services in Millbrae and some other cities in the county.
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Well, why not! Just another one killed by a distracted and/or careless driver. How many more before we start penalizing these types and remove their driving privilege? We need to throw the book at them. I understand that Sacramento legislators are working on such a package but the bleeding hearts are already lined up to thwart this effort. According to the ACLU, if one is underprivileged or poor, the driver should be exempt from such measures. How preposterous is that?
Dirk you don't understand:
quote: "The man whose vehicle hit the woman stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators."
The driver was apparently just passively observing this incident. The police and their investigators must be focusing in on that bad vehicle instead.
[Note to the SMDJ Editor: with all these self-driving vehicles around, reporters need to re-learn traffic-reporting-grammar or we all get confused]
easygerd - if it is a case of a hit and run, one could go to jail but by cooperating, one gets slapped on the wrist. In the end, the poor woman is still dead. If I understand it correctly, the only crime a former perpetrator committed was running away. The killing appears secondary. No wonder one can cause these horrific accidents with impunity. Message to all drivers, go ahead killing someone with your car, but do not run, cooperate, and you will be OK.
Dirk, it's even worse than that. Often times the police will even excuse hit & run drivers now.
I give you two cases that hit close to home.
Case A: Speeding in San Mateo's pedestrian friendly TOD.
Watch the video of the reckless, speeding driver. Any solid "ambulance chaser" would pull out 5-10 ways this driver broke US and CA laws including of course hit & run.
The driver clearly keeps speeding away.
So why is the police officer at minute 1:40 making excuses for the driver?
Police officers are not there to make these kinds of excuses, they are there to investigate.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/car-nearly-hits-girl-san-mateo-crosswalk/3010549/
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Case B: The infamous Death of Christine Boyle in Livermore
Christine was on a class 1 bike lane crossing on a green traffic light. And still police immediately tried to blame here and excuse the hit & run driver.
"'The driver of the truck was fully cooperative and unaware that he had collided with her'," according to Officer Taylor Burruss"
Again, police had no clue how the law works and made all kinds of excuses for the truck driver.
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2021/03/05/livermore-police-blame-hit-run-victim-for-her-own-death
Two for one…
eGerd – TBot here. The SMDJ didn’t write this article. The Bay City News did. In the interest of educating traffic-reporting-grammar experts, please rewrite the article to show us, the SMDJ, and the Bay City News how it should be reported. I look forward to your rewrite.
Mr. van Ulden, it is a crime to leave the scene of an accident so it is in a driver’s interest to remain at the scene. If a driver flees, they can be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony, depending upon the circumstances. There is not enough information in this article to determine who was at fault. You’re assuming the driver is at fault but if an investigation hasn’t been completed, drivers shouldn’t be demonized. If the driver is at fault, then by all means, they should be held accountable. But what happens if the pedestrian was at fault? Can the driver hold the family responsible, civilly, for potential mental distress?
TBot - The driver is always at fault.
That's also why the insurance of the driver pays some 99.999% of the time. That's also why any "ambulance chaser" will get millions out of these cities and the driver for most cases.
And that is the reason cities and police will blame the victim to make it harder for them to get justice.
According to NTSB:
- A pedestrian only has the duty to care for themselves.
- A driver has the duty to care for everyone else.
The moment a collision happens, both parties failed to do their job. Both are at fault.
eGerd – TBot here. First you say the driver is always at fault but then you conclude that both pedestrian and driver are at fault. Okay, got it. Nobody is at fault if everyone is at fault? Why don’t we continue to leave it to the authorities to decide what’s what?
The driver is always at fault that is why in 99% of cases the driver's insurance pays for all damages.
In rare cases where a pedestrian is really out there to commit suicide or a real "act of god" is happening, the driver will still have partial fault, because they were driving either too fast or too distracted for the occasion.
Now the city, the law, and you btw. should know that too (if you have a driver's license) and yet city council members like Donnal Colson would rather blame a child than take responsibility. And police officers often invent new laws or neglect old ones to make excuses and let the driver go.
eGerd – TBot here. But you previously said everybody is at fault. And now the percentage of cases where driver’s insurance pays for damages has dropped almost 1%? Sounds to me like you’re resorting to past behavior – toss anything and everything at the wall and hope something sticks. Well, nothing is sticking because you keep changing your stance. As such, TBot out.
TBot. If you are not aware of California Vehicle code and the DMV drivers handbook they do have easy available online refresher courses. AAA also promotes safe driving classes. For drivers our age (>19 years old), I also recommend regular physicals and vision tests.
Lately too many drivers in this area keep driving into restaurants, coffee shops, Safeway, ACE Hardware and roll over pedestrians.
I'm glad you are staying interested and curious - that is important at our age (>19 years) if we want to keep driving.
This county is run by "Bikesheders".
- in a legal system that relies on "Deterrence" - they keep incentivizing crime
- instead of going after the killer - they promote victim blaming
- instead of making streets safer - they scheme and scheme and scheme for 2 years how they can politically sell STEALING bike lanes from kids.
Parkinson's Law of Triviality teaches us that San Mateo Democrats have no clue what they are doing.
Any car project is hammered through within minutes, but any project for pedestrians and cyclists takes decades.
Best example: what ever happened to all these "Transportation Plan" and "Climate Action Plans" and their promised bike lanes?
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