SF News Hit-and-Run Kills 55-Year-Old Man at Masonic and Turk A hit-and-run incident claimed the life of a 55-year-old man at Masonic and Turk last night. The Chronicle reports: "The series of crashes began at about 2:30 a.m. when the suspect,
SF News There Will Be a Sobriety Checkpoint, Somewhere, Tonight Starting at 6:30 p.m. and extending throughout the evening the SFPD will be doing a sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location to look out for drivers who partook too much of
SF News Drunk Guy Almost Drives Car Into Pond in McLaren Park And today on our favorite beat, namely the Drunks Behaving Badly beat, we find one obviously [read: allegedly] drunk dude who drove his car into McLaren Park around 2:20 a.m. this
SF News DUI Checkpoint: Potrero & 23rd This Saturday Beginning at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at Potrero Avenue and 23rd Street, a sobriety checkpoint will be enforced, running until Sunday morning. You've been warned. [SF Appeal]
SF News Death of San Mateo Teen May Lead to Crackdown on Party Buses A drunk-driving crash that took the life of San Mateo 19-year-old Brett Studebaker may lead to a statewide crackdown on underage drinking aboard party buses. Studebaker was killed while trying to drive home
SF News Way to Blow it on that Not Driving Drunk Thing, Bay Area Well, it looks like we spoke too soon. Just when we thought our faith had been restored in humanity's ability to resist getting plastered and speeding home in their death monsters, a bunch
SF News Good Work on that <strike>Not</strike> Driving Drunk Thing - Nevermind Way to go, Bay Area! According to early CHP data, the number of drunk drivers arrested at the start of the holiday weekend is fewer than last year's numbers, although barely. Bay City
SF News Gruesome Car Accident Early Sunday Shuts Down Much of 101 Two unrelated people were killed late Saturday night after being struck by multiple cars, causing all but two lanes of 101 to remain closed most of the day on Sunday. An allegedly intoxicated
SF News Expect Sobriety Checkpoints In S.F. This Weekend SF Appeal reports that a sobriety checkpoint will go up in San Francisco this weekend. "The SFPD, along with the California Highway Patrol, U.S. Park Police and members of the San Francisco
SF News Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light, Arrested for DUI On this lackadaisical news day, we bring you word that Thomas Kinkade, painter of Christ's love reborn 10 million times over in picturesque cottage form, was recently arrested for alleged DUI. The California
SF News MTV Real World's Puck Hospitalized After Serious Crash Puck (nee David Rainey), MTV Real World: San Francisco's grubby bike messenger, is "hospitalized in San Diego following a terrifying car wreck that left the reality star and his 8-year-old son seriously injured,
SF News North Bay Couple Used Tween As Designated Driver Doing something pretty much all of our friends whose hippie parents did to them back in the day, a Marin couple was arrested for allowing a 13-year-old boy to drive them home in
SF News Drunk Driver Was Drunk -- <i>Really</i> Drunk Driving while drunk is a crime that should, arguably, in a perfect world, be punishable by public beheading. In addition to taking the life of an innocent driver and the lives of many,
SF News Free Cab Rides Home What with St. Patrick's Day synonymous with binge drinking, the number of drunk drivers on the road increases. Obviously. So, instead of trying to weave home after your ninth round at your favorite
SF News At Least 36 Arrested for New Year Revelry A paltry 30 -- 30! -- people were arrested in San Francisco for public intoxication on New Year's Eve around Broadway, Market Street and the Embarcadero. (Needless to say, we're sad to see
misc Day Around the Bay Glass race to the top! (Our money is on the Millennium.) [Curbed] SF Zoo's cat wall too short. [SFGate] 22-Fillmore zaniness. [FCN] SF hearts Ron Paul. For some reason. (Another election? But we
SF News How Dry I Am: Three Bay Area Cities Some of the Most Shitfaced Congratulations, Oakland (29th), Fremont (32nd), and San Francisco (34th) -- you made it on the top 50 drunkest cities in the U.S. list. At least, according to the December issue of the
SF News Your Halloween Drunk Driving Report During the wee hours of the morning, a woman sporting a French maid outfit was arrested for going the wrong way down the northbound lanes on (the) 280 in San Francisco. She caused
SF News SFist Blotter 101, the highway of doom! There was a drunk driving death near Willow Road Wednesday morning, along with all those random shootings the day before. The cops, for what it's worth, say none
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
