Posts by Albert Stoll

The Bay City News reported on April 15, 2011 that a dangerous three-vehicle collision occurred on Thursday of this week in South San Francisco.  The culprit?  The story indicated that “a 50-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and driving without insurance after allegedly causing the wreck in San Francisco’s Crocker Amazon…

The San Francisco Gate reported Friday, “California authorities say a train collision south of San Francisco has killed one person and resulted in the shutdown of commuter service.”  The incident happened, officials explain, “when a northbound train slammed into the car at a busy intersection in Palo Alto at around 5 p.m.” on April 15,…

According to yesterdays’ San Francisco Chronicle, The Gate reports the U.S. Coast Guard plucked one man, clinging to a life preserver, from the surf off Ocean Beach Sunday afternoon April 10, 2011 but rescuers are still searching for another man after their sailboat and an inflatable raft collapsed south of the Cliff House. The report…

According to a recent report in the New York Times, “Toddlers are usually switched from rear facing to forward facing car seats right after their first birthday — an event many parents may celebrate as a kind of milestone.”  But in a new policy statement, the nation’s leading pediatricians’ group says that is a year too soon…

According to Berkley’s Institute of Transportation Studies, The primary objectives of a Pedestrian Safety Assessment (PSA) are: To improve pedestrian safety in a city or county To create safe, comfortable, accessible, welcoming environments for pedestrians To enhance the walk-ability and economic vitality of local districts To meet these objectives, the Tech Transfer Program, also found…

According to Bay City News, the state Highway 4 Bypass in Brentwood reopened Sunday, April 3, 2011 during the afternoon.  The Bypass was opened back up more than seven hours after initially being shut down due to a fatal crash, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer told reporters. The accident was reported to have occurred…

Several years ago in the wake of a tanker truck crash that caused a freeway collapse in the San Francisco Bay Area, Web sites began providing invaluable traffic information to commuters.  According to CNET.com, the crash occurred at 3:45 a.m. in April of 2007 in Oakland, igniting 8,600 gallons of gasoline on the Interstate 80…

On March 23, 2011 the Associated Press reported that Jurors were set to resume deliberations Wednesday in the sentencing phase for a Coast Guard petty officer, who piloted a boat involved in a San Diego Bay collision that killed an 8-year-old boy. After a court-martial at Coast Guard headquarters in Alameda, a seven-member jury on…

Next month at the California Office of Traffic Safety Leadership (OTS) is offering a Training Seminar from Wednesday, April 20 to Friday, April 22, 2011.  The location is the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California.  In addition, “Bicycle and Pedestrian Training” will be taught in a 16-hour session during the 2011 OTS Leadership and…

Flashback to 1989 – The Loma Prieta (M6.9) quake struck just as the World Series was beginning in San Francisco.   Centered 50 miles south in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the temblor killed 63, collapsed an elevated portion of a freeway in Oakland and a portion of the Bay Bridge, sparked fires that burned much of…