Blog Posts in 2015

San Francisco Adopts Vision Zero

The streets of San Francisco should be safe for all, whether we walk, ride a bicycle, take a cab or drive. As residents live, work and play in the City by the Bay, no one should be in danger while using the streets and intersections throughout the city. Zero traffic fatalities in San Francisco by the year 2024 – that is what Vision Zero San Francisco is all about. Community members, city officials ...

Finding Dangerous Intersections in San Francisco

San Francisco is the cultural and financial center of Northern California. Its land area spans 46.9 miles, with a density of nearly 18,200 people per square mile, making it the second most densely populated city in the nation, with New York City being the first. Due to San Francisco’s densely populated areas, tourists and residents alike are in danger of being injured or killed in a pedestrian or ...

Do Uber Drivers Make the Roads Less Safe?

On July 14, 2015, NBC News reported that Uber reached a tentative settlement in a wrongful death suit that was brought by the family of a 6-year-old girl who died in San Francisco. The girl was walking in a crosswalk with her younger brother and mother when they were struck by a vehicle on New Year’s Eve in 2013. The driver who hit the mother and her small children was logged on to the Uber X ...

Two Minors Killed in Yosemite After Tree Limb Fell on Tent

On Aug. 14, two minors were killed in Yosemite National Park after an oak tree limb fell on top of the tent where they were sleeping. When park rangers responded to the scene at Upper Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley, both minors were deceased, said park spokesman Scott Gediman. The accident at one of the nation’s most popular tourist destinations occurred less than two weeks after eight young ...