#traffic-investigation

#traffic-investigation

A motorist fatally struck a cyclist riding through the Southside neighborhood Saturday afternoon. John Edward Muller, 65, of Richmond had been riding southbound on Telegraph Avenue near Haste Street when the driver, headed north, struck him, according to police and the county coroner. Emergency workers took Muller to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The police department's Fatal Accident Investigation Team is looking into the collision, Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Byron White said in an email.

Local News Police are continuing to investigate the cause of the crash. A car crashed into a telephone on Tuesday night, killing three teenagers in New Hampshire, according to police. New Hampshire State Police report that at 11:10 p.m., they received a call about a crash on Route 47 or Bennington Road in Francestown. An initial investigation showed that a 2013 Ford Focus traveling southbound on Route 47 veered off the road and crashed into a telephone pole. The Ford continued along the shoulder before rolling over onto its roof. Police say the crash threw the occupants from the vehicle. They were dead when troopers and emergency medical personnel arrived.

Officers were dispatched to the area at 12:11 a.m. after a woman was reported to be lying on the ground after being hit by a vehicle, authorities said. Police found the victim, a 32-year-old woman, unconscious and without a pulse about 100 feet east of the intersection, authorities said. Officers began CPR, which was later taken over by medical personnel. The pedestrian was pronounced deceased at Stanford Medical Center.

A 47-year-old Antioch man driving a Toyota Corolla collided with a 47-year-old man traveling northbound on a motorcycle at about 9:23 p.m. at the intersection of 42nd Ave. and International Boulevard, police said Saturday. Police found the Corolla driver unresponsive allegedly with open containers of alcohol and marijuana in the vehicle. He died from injuries suffered in the crash, according to police.

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.

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.