SF News Rookie SFPD Officer Involved In Alleged DUI Crash Loses Job, Gets Charged On Multiple Counts Not much of a surprise that the freshly graduated SFPD officer involved in a suspected DUI crash Saturday morning has been let go from the force, and charged with a slew of counts of driving under the influence and reckless driving.
SF News Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of DUI and Hit-and-Run, Seemingly In Their Own Patrol Car It’s probably not the best idea for a sheriff’s deputy to drive to a bar in their patrol car, get intoxicated, and then drive with the dashcam recording, a lesson that one Mendocino County sheriff's deputy is currently learning all too well.
SF News SF Lyft Driver Found Guilty of DUI on the Job, After Running Into Motorcycle and Fighting With Bystanders An SF Lyft driver with twice the legal BAC limit hit a motorcycle, got into a physical fight with people in front of the Roxie Theater, and tried to drive away. Today he was found guilty on these charges.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver In Marin County Drives Ferrari Right Into Richardson Bay A man who was allegedly driving drunk in Mill Valley Friday managed to drive his luxury Ferrari off the road and deep into the muck of Richardson Bay, creating quite a challenge for a tow truck operator.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Kills Two, Injures Three Others In Ingleside Crash A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.
SF News Two Oakland PD Officers Arrested for Driving Under the Influence — While on Duty We’ve seen police officers arrested on DUI charges before, but not while they were on the job. Yet it has come to light that two Oakland Police Department officers were arrested for DUI while they were on duty in 2023.
SF News Cycling Community Outraged as Presidio DUI Driver Gets Very Generous Plea Deal After Killing Cyclist Cycling champion Ethan Boyes was killed last April by a driver operating under the influence, but that driver just got a very lenient plea deal of only two misdemeanor counts, and faces no longer than a year in jail.
SF News Multi-Car Drunk Driving Accident on Bay Bridge Leaves One Dead Sunday Morning A three-car pileup claimed the life of one woman, while two drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence around 3 a.m. Sunday morning.
SF News Defrocked Ex-Priest, Accused of Child Sex Abuse, Kills Pedestrian In Alleged Walnut Creek DUI Incident One man is dead and his wife briefly hospitalized after an allegedly drunk driver rammed into them Saturday, a driver who happened to be a former priest accused of molesting dozens of children.
SF News Of Course SFPD Is Doing DUI Checkpoints for St. Patrick’s Day The San Francisco Police Department is very eager to inform that they will be out in force with DUI checkpoints and patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, because well-publicized checkpoints do indeed cut down on drunk driving.
SF News Study: Uber Doesn't Reduce Drunk Driving Calling into question the oft-repeated corporate claim that Uber availability reduces drunk driving, a new study from the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that the dangerous and illegal behavior is continuing along seemingly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Petaluma Butcher Shop Made Mincemeat By Drunk Driver Car vs. Building. #notavegan #justadrunk A photo posted by Thistle Meats (@thistlemeats) on Feb 15, 2016 at 7:07am PST An upscale butcher shop in Petaluma is closed today after an alleged drunk
SF News Ten Years Of Bay Area Traffic Fatalities Mapped It's a powerful data set — ten years of fatal traffic collisions, mapped and collated, ready to be pored over. Compiled together in an interactive map, the data highlights pockets of San Francisco that
SF News SFPD's Ready To Nab Impaired Drivers This Holiday Weekend What's a Fourth of July without a booze-fueled barbecue? Beer and burgers for the gentlemen, wine coolers and salad for the ladies, right? OK , I'm kidding. But it's true, drinking is part of
SF News Drunk Driver Kills Menlo Park Couple Walking Their Dog A little before 7 p.m. Thursday night, an East Palo Alto couple, Kamal Kaur and Balbir Singh, were walking their dog in Menlo Park when they were struck and killed by a
SF News Tour Bus Driver Charged With DUI Behind The Wheel Of 'Hop-On, Hop-Off' Bus Leon Maynard, 60, of San Bruno is trying to avoid a DUI conviction after police say they spotted him "struggling to steer" a double decker tour bus near Stockton and Post in the
SF News California Drivers Are All On Drugs, Basically So says a new study from the California Office of Traffic Safety. According to the study, which is reportedly the first of its kind, a surprisingly high number of drivers in the Golden
SF News UC Berkeley Student Crashes Car Into Dorm, Severs Gas Line An estimated 400 students were rattled out of bed this morning at University of California at Berkeley after a 22-year-old male student slammed into a dormitory. Oops. "At around 3 a.m. Wednesday
SF News 49er Arrested For DUI Possibly still crestfallen over the Niners' NFC loss, 22-year-old rookie defensive end Aldon Smith was arrested on DUI charges Saturday morning in Miami. According to the Sacramento Bee, the wasted 49er was swerving
SF News Alleged Christmas Eve Hit-And-Run Driver Drank A Case Of Beer Before Fatal Incident Juan Martinez, the 23-year-old accused of fleeing the scene after his car allegedly hopped a curb and fatally struck a pedestrian on Cesar Chavez, admitted to police that he drank "13 or 14"
SF News San Francisco's NYE Sobriety Checkpoint Revealed Billed "Avoid the 8" by SFPD, police will check for lushes behind the wheel this New Year's Eve at 8th and Folsom Streets. It will begin at 8:30 p.m. and end
Arts & Entertainment Stay Alive And Make Good Bread Pudding This Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving from the fine folks at SFist. If you don't know what to make this year, you still have time to prepare this delightful savory bread pudding care of Mary Risley, fledgling
SF News Your Labor Day Weekend DUI Checkpoint Advisory Heading in to a 3-day holiday weekend with a strong chance of drinking and driving, SFPD has announced the location of their DUI checkpoint this weekend. Starting at 8:30 p.m. Saturday
SF News Drunk Woman Crashes Into Fire Station Drunk drivers. They're the scum on the Earth, right? Right. Well, what about if you're a drunk driver who gets in a car with your daughter and then crashes into a fire house?
SF News Drunk Driver, Drunk Cyclist Collide Gee, this is harrowing. Two fools who crashed into each other over the weekend were allegedly both drunk while riding their preferred modes. "Jose Luna, 40, of Redwood City was turning from northbound
