Archive for the ‘Bicycle Injuries’ Category

Bicyclist injured by 91-year-old driver

Posted by brandlawfirm on October 20th, 2009 under Bicycle Injuries  •  No Comments

According to the Press Democrat, Eunice Peterson, a 91-year-old Burnside Road resident will most likely have no criminal charges pressed against her after she apparently struck and injured Sally Wong, a 43-year-old cyclist on Friday, October 16, and kept on driving.  Wong was struck from behind, knocked off her bike and sustained moderate injuries.  Her [...]

Bicyclist killed by drunk driver

Posted by brandlawfirm on October 8th, 2009 under Bicycle Injuries  •  No Comments

According to the Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Joseph Novotny, 43, was struck on July 11 by 21-year-old Marco Valencia, an allegedly drunk Canyon Country driver.  According to the CHP, Novotny was killed and two others injured when Valencia’s truck plowed into a group of cyclists on Bouquet Canyon Road.
 
175 bicyclists took off that morning as [...]

Bicycle Accident

Posted by brandlawfirm on September 23rd, 2009 under Bicycle Injuries  •  No Comments

According to the Contra Costa Times, Kyle Katheryn Byrnes (aka Kyle Katherine Brown), 62, has been charged with DUI and failing to provide evidence of insurance on request following a Shoreline Highway collision that fractured 26 year old Claire Diepenbrock’s skull.  Diepenbrock was riding her bike north toward Mount Tamalpais in the Tamalpais Valley area.  [...]