Mountain View police have arrested a 23-year-old woman on suspicion of hitting a pedestrian with her car after she had been drinking. At 9:47 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31, officers were dispatched to to the area of W. El Camino Real and Miramonte Avenue/Shoreline Boulevard regarding calls about a car-vs-pedestrian accident. When police and Mountain View fire-paramedics arrived, they provided medical aid to the victim, a 64-year-old Mountain View resident, who was then taken to a hospital.
Brooklyn - One person was killed following a crash in Brooklyn on Thursday, police said on Friday. The incident happened near Classon Avenue and Atlantic Avenue around 3:30 a.m., police said. A 30-year-old man was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on Classon Avenue when he failed to navigate the road and collided with a parked and unoccupied 2013 Ford dump truck. The man was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals/Kings County, where he was later pronounced dead.
Hongmei Chen, a 54-year-old single mother, was biking from her job in Oakland to her home in Berkeley on the afternoon of Aug. 17 when she crossed the heavily trafficked intersection at 51st Street and Shattuck Avenue. According to a witness at the scene and a subsequent police report, Chen was hit by a large AAA truck there, leaving her with serious facial injuries.