A 12-foot fall from a local fraternity house has left a UC Berkeley senior paralyzed from the waist down and with a slew of other injuries, just three weeks before she was set to graduate.

KTVU brings us the news that a UC Berkeley senior fell from a Berkeley fraternity house stairway and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The incident happened at around 1 pm on April 19 when many UC Berkeley fraternities and sororities were celebrating "Cal Day" open houses. The falling victim, 21-year-old Bandna Bhatti, was just three weeks from graduating, and this incident seems likely to raise some questions over how the Berkeley Phi Kappa Tau chapter handled the incident at their fraternity house.

"She cannot walk. She cannot move her body," Bhatti’s mother Sukh Bhatti said in the above KTVU interview.  "She's paralyzed, asking me questions, ‘Can I graduate? Can I go to my graduation?’"

And according to a GoFundMe for Bandna Bhatti’s recovery, the medical issues are quite severe.

“In addition to a spinal fracture, Bandna also sustained severe injuries, including tearing of the dura with spinal fluid leakage, a scapular fracture, and a brain hematoma,” the campaign says. “These injuries are not only life-altering but will require extensive and ongoing medical care, including physical therapy, rehabilitation, and specialized support to help her navigate this new chapter.”

Bhatti was apparently on an external metal stairway at the fraternity house on Piedmont Avenue when she suffered the fall. She fell at least 12 feet and landed in a passageway outside the house, and apparently was not discovered for about 15 minutes.

And according to Bhatti’s family, once she was brought inside the house after the fall, she and the people who brought her into the house to recover were told to leave. Her friends took her back to her apartment, and for whatever reason, they did not call 911 until about seven hours later.

The Phi Kappa Tau national chapter gave a statement to KTVU saying, “Our thoughts are with the individual and their loved ones during this challenging time. The health, safety and well-being of all individuals in our community remain our highest priorities." They add they are cooperating with investigators.

According to Bhatti’s GoFundMe, “Bandna’s closest friends are running a half-marathon this Sunday, May 4th, in her honor. Our goal is a $5-per-mile pledge to raise vital funds for Bandna’s recovery. Whether you’re able to sponsor a mile, donate what you can, or help spread the word, your support will make a powerful difference.”

Related: Frank Chu Released From Hospital, After a Fall That Left Him With a Severe Spinal Injury [SFist]

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Four people are recovering from their injuries today, after a multi-vehicle collision Sunday on Mission Street.

The crash went down at 6:33 Sunday evening, according to the San Francisco Police Department, when at least three vehicles — including a blue Chrysler sedan, a tan Honda SUV, and a Yellow Cab — collided at 8th and Mission Streets.

Further details on the exact circumstances of the crash, which remains under investigation, were not available at publication time.

However, police did confirm that four people were hurt in the collision: A 64-year-old man suffered a neck injury, a 66-year-old man was left dizzy by the crash, and two men aged 27 and 20 suffered "unknown" injuries.

The victims of the collision "were transported to two different hospitals for medical treatment," police say. According to the SFPD, none of their injuries are considered life-threatening.

Egads. A BART train hurled into a person during this morning's commute. The incident happened at the 12th Street station in Oakland.

Contra Costa Times reports: "BART officials were notified about 9:10 a.m. that a person was struck by a train and was trapped under the train, spokeswoman Alicia Trost said on the agency's information line. The condition of the person was not known immediately, she said."

Trains heading to Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond did not stop at the station. Traffic, as expected, was congested.

We'll update as soon as we know more about the condition of the injured party.

Seven people were injured at around 10:15 this morning after a cable car hit an obstruction and stopped abruptly on Nob Hill. Five people riding the cable car have been hospitalized, one with life-threatening injuries, after the cable car hit an obstacle on Powell and Washington Streets. The conductor and the gripman were both among the injured.

Muni is investigating the accident, which appears to have been caused by a 1.5 inch bolt in the track.

Last Wednesday, Oakland A's Brandon McCarthy was hit on the head with a ball that, if you saw it, looked like one of the most frightening moments in baseball. Although he waked off the field, reports said that McCarthy suffered a 'life-threatening" injury. However, after some surgery and rest, he's still alive and walking around San Francisco with vim and vigor. So much so, in fact, that his wife, Amanda McCarthy, tweeted this pic of her husband and his massive scar.

Two face from Batman lives and he is refusing to wear a hat.. Sorry people of SF twitter.com/Mrs_McCarthy32…

— Amanda McCarthy (@Mrs_McCarthy32) September 12, 2012

In fact, Amanda seems to have used humor to guide her through what we can only imagine is a trying time for her and her husband.

Everyone is yelling at me that I should be proud that Brandon peed on his own. When he makes it into the toilet I will be proud-

— Amanda McCarthy (@Mrs_McCarthy32) September 12, 2012

All this guy wants is Starbucks.. Every couple of hours he is asking for more lattes...

— Amanda McCarthy (@Mrs_McCarthy32) September 12, 2012

...and sweet.

Nurse Hobbes doing her job.. Everyone is happy to be home twitter.com/Mrs_McCarthy32…

— Amanda McCarthy (@Mrs_McCarthy32) September 11, 2012

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This nifty infographic (which you can click to enlarge) comes from the Christensen Law Firm ("Utah's bicycle lawyers"). It uses data from the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute; Bicycle Safety Almanac's statistics on safety, fatalities, and injuries; bicyclinginfo.org; Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's bicycle fatality facts 2008; and the American Academy of Family Physicians Bicycle-Related Injuries sheet.

Thoughts?

[via Cool Infographics]

At around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, a taxi and limousine collided at the intersection of Jones and Sutter, causing the limo to hit a nearby light post. The bottom sleeve of the pole shattered, and the debris injured two pedestrians.

Seven victims were sent to St. Francis Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police are still determining the cause of the crash, but it's suspected one of the vehicles had run a red light.

[Via BCN/Appeal]

The driver of an adorable SUV crashed into a row of puny parked cars in the city's Russian Hill hood early this morning. According to reports, the big beauty was heading "down a steep hill on northbound Taylor Street" before rolling over and smashing into the vehicles. The mammoth vehicle finally came to a stop on Union Street. While specifics on injuries are not yet available, "[o]fficers and medical units responded" to the scene. Anybody see what went down? Sounds jarring. We'll up date with more info as it comes in to us.

KTVU has some choice footage of last Saturday's Muni crash over on King Street near AT&T Park. Since major news networks inexplicably don't believe in the religion of Embedded Code, we are forced to link to it here. (Oh, and then you have to click on "RAW VIDEO: Watch Muni Surveillance Footage Shot On Trains Involved In Collision.") If some kind soul wants to upload or find us the same footage, YouTube- or Flickr Video-style, we'd be most appreciative. Forget KTVU and their pre-commercialed footage. Here it is uninterrupted!

Anyway, what the Muni camera captures is pretty jarring. Literally. The train must have been traveling abnormally fast to throw passengers around like that. Ouch, indeed.

A thousand thanks foes out to the formidable Kevin Lewis for doing this for us. We owe you one!

Last Saturday's T-Third meets N-Judah collision might be, according to to investigators, might have been the result of a speeding Muni driver and/or someone chatting on their cell phone. KCBS reports:

Investigators say one of the MUNI rail cars involved in a crash Saturday afternoon was speeding and the driver may have been talking on his cell phone. (...) MUNI says drivers are not allowed to talk on the phone while operating a vehicle. Investigators are trying to obtain the operator's cell phone records.

What? Muni drivers are ALWAYS on their mobile communication devices. And they're not supposed to be? We are stunned. Anyway, the car was allegedly "going 17 miles per hour in a 3 mph zone" right before the crash. Jesus.

If you recall, last week's harrowing Muni train crash over on King Street near AT&T landed 12 people in the hospital, all of them with non-life threatening injuries. The drivers of the trains have been relieved of their driving duties as the investigation continues.

An astonishing twelve passengers were sent to the hospital on Saturday after a T-Third train slammed into the back of a two-car N-Judah. The accident happened near AT&T Park on King Street between Third and Fourth streets, and none of the injuries were life-threatening. Allegedly.

But why the T-Third didn't stop is anyone's guess. As of now, Muni has no idea. When the trains are underground, the lines run are "run on an automated control system." But when they move above ground, the drivers are in control. Ideally.

Drug tests have been administered, heads have shook in continued disappointment, and pointless meetings have been scheduled to get to the bottom of Saturday's accident. This comes of the heels of SFMTA receiving a cool 7 million from the Office of Homeland Security in order to improve safety condition on Muni lines. (If you don't know, Muni has a patterned history of refreshingly daredevil, though unsafe, operation.)

--around 9:20 p.m.: shooting at Taylor and Market in the Loin. One victim hit in the arm.

--around 10:00 p.m.: shots fired in Sunnydale (can Dede Wilsey help with that?). Victim found with four gunshot wounds, one in each arm and two in the chest. Injuries considered non-life-threatening.

--around 11:00 p.m.: shots fired in the Bayview. Victim found with a gunshot wound in the back. Injury considered non-life-threatening; and

--around 2 a.m.: homicide victim found at UN Plaza (the Civic Center station) near McAllister, one block away from the Hastings Law School. Victim died of multiple stabbing wounds.

Update: And this afternoon, they discovered two dead bodies in a house in Ingleside. Witnesses reported hearing a scream late last night, but thinking nothing of it. One of the owners of the house was seen talking to the police and later leaving with the investigators.