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A bicyclist, Danika Tyler Garcia 14, was injured in a collision with a light-rail train in San Jose Friday morning, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority officials said.
The VTA train hit the cyclist at Stokes Street near Southwest Expressway at about 7:30 a.m.
Ms. Garcia was taken to a hospital where she later died.
There were about 40 passengers on the train at the time and they were transferred to a bus while train service was disrupted, VTA officials said.
A suspected car burglar was arrested early Thursday after he crashed in Oakland at the end of a 20-minute chase that began in San Leandro, police said.
John Henry Lee, 20, suffered minor injuries after he crashed into a tree and street sign at Fifth Avenue and East Eighth Street near Laney College, ran away and was bitten by a San Leandro police dog, authorities said. He was being treated at a hospital.
The incident began about 12:15 a.m. when police interrupted a car burglary on Dolores Avenue in San Leandro, said a San Leandro police Lt.
The California Highway Patrol is asking for help from any witnesses of a crash that killed a man who was walking in the lanes of traffic on eastbound Interstate Highway 580 in Oakland early this morning.
Officers responded to reports of a pedestrian staggering across the lanes of eastbound Highway 580 at Edwards Avenue around 1:10 a.m., a CHP officer said.
As officers were en route to the scene, the CHP received additional reports saying the pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle in the second lane from the left, according to the Hill.
Members of a Hayward Church are thankful that no one is injured after a car plowed through the crowded building during a grocery giveaway.
A parishioner at the New Presbyterian Church on Patrick Street accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake Tuesday afternoon, launching her Toyota Camry up a walkway and into the sanctuary, ripping off the churches double doors and launching it into the organ.
Witnesses say that if the car had hit the church just fifteen feet from where it did it would have run into a line of 70 families who had come for free food.
A man was critically injured when a vehicle struck him in San Francisco’s Oceanview neighborhood on Monday night, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
The collision was reported at 9:12 p.m. at Alemany Boulevard and Brotherhood Way.
The 47-year-old victim and his brother were walking south in a crosswalk when a driver traveling west on Brotherhood Way struck him, police spokesman Sgt. Eric O’Neal said.
The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for a life-threatening head injury, O’Neal said.
A bicyclist was hospitalized after being hit by a tow truck in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Wednesday evening.
The collision happened at about 5 p.m. at Seventh and Folsom streets.
The female bicyclist was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, a police officer at the scene said.
He said he did not have information on the bicyclist's condition.
Police blocked off Seventh Street between Folsom and Harrison streets and Folsom Street between Eighth and Sixth streets.
A pedestrian was struck and killed while crossing Van Ness Avenue Tuesday night. There are seven lanes of traffic and police say a man was struck outside the crosswalk on Van Ness, near Grove Street, by a driver who had no time to react. It happened just before 7 p.m.
San Francisco police, with the collision investigation unit, stated that the victim was a 38-year-old man. Witnesses told investigators the victim had been in some sort of verbal altercation with another man earlier, but police told us they do not believe that played a role in the victim's death.
A large dump truck lost control on a hilly San Francisco street Monday morning and rolled over onto a parked car, authorities said.
The collision occurred about 9:15 a.m. at 23rd and Castro Streets in the city’s Noe Valley neighborhood.
There were no injuries reported and just the one parked car was damaged.
Police were still investigating what caused the truck to overturn.