Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Sues Tesla Over Crash With Speed-Racing Employee

A 70-year-old woman, Michelle Brooks of Loma Mar, has sued Tesla and a Santa Cruz area amateur car-racing group after a 21-year-old Tesla sales associate collided with her car head-on on a stretch of road known for speed-racing. Tesla employee Micah Zuglian was reportedly going double the speed limit around a blind curve when he struck Brooks's vehicle on Highway 84 in La Honda, on August 30. [Chronicle]
San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Ken Smith, who is an experienced ocean swimmer, is urging the public to stay way back from the shoreline, at least 200 yards, as historically high swells are incoming this weekend — and as some expert surfers may attempt to surf them. [KTVU]
All but one westbound lane of the Bay Bridge will be closed for five hours tonight, between 11 pm and 4 am, as Caltrans crews work to install a huge holiday wreath over the entrance to Yerba Buena Tunnel. [KRON4]
The sheriff in Tulare County, Michael Boudreaux, is facing multiple allegations of sexual assault, including an allegation involving children in the 1980s. [SFGate]
Bocce ball players who use the courts next to Embarcadero Plaza fear their courts will be shortened or moved as Rec & Parks looks to move its padel courts. [Chronicle]
Steph Curry will be sidelined for at least two weeks with oblique injury. [Chronicle]
This year's super El Niño may have helped a man survive in the Pacific Ocean near Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, treading water for nine hours before he was rescued — and the man, who has not been named, was reportedly a pianist working on Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas cruise ship. [KTVU/NYT]

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