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An AC Transit bus crashes with stolen car and slams into a home, causing multiple injuries and gas leak at 18th Street and Burbeck Ave. in Richmond, California

Date: 
Friday, September 5, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
The bus was doing between 20-25 mph when it struck a house in Richmond around 5:30 p.m.Resident Ashley Ortega found her 3-month-old son sitting in his bouncy chair, in the living room, looking up at an AC Transit bus. The gas service line was severed and leaking. Meanwhile seven dazed and bloody passengers, including two children and a bus driver, were trying to escape the bus. Police say they arrested a juvenile male passenger, but his older brother Richard Contreras, the driver, got away on foot.

Michael Shumake, 37, killed in train - pedestrian collision on June 12 in Richmond.

Date: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

A man struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Richmond was identified Friday as 37-year-old Michael Shumake.

Shumake, a city resident, was hit by a westbound Capitol Corridor train near the Richmond station about 3:40 p.m. Thursday. He was facing away from the train when he was hit, and his death is being treated as an accident, authorities said.

Woman killed in high-speed accident in Richmond on Garrard Blvd. on May 13.

Date: 
Monday, May 12, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

Police are investigating a fatal, high-speed crash that caused a power outage in Richmond on Tuesday night.

According to Richmond police Lt. Joey Schlemmer, at about 9:30 p.m., a woman was driving a green Ford Mustang and traveling at high speeds north on Garrard Boulevard past West Macdonald Avenue, when she lost control of her vehicle.

The Mustang then left the roadway and slid broadside into a telephone pole.

Schlemmer said the woman was the sole passenger in the vehicle, and she was pronounced dead at the scene,

Kyle A. Buege, 28, arrested, after a high speed police pursuit, through two counties, leads to a single car crash at an I-80 off-ramp in Richmond

Date: 
Monday, March 10, 2014
Area: 
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
A Sacramento man is in jail in Contra Costa County after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase that began near the state Capitol and ended when his vehicle crashed in Richmond.