Berkeley honors JT Street, 19-year city worker, who died in motorcycle crash
Police do not yet know what may have caused the crash but are looking into whether Street may have experienced a medical emergency.
Police do not yet know what may have caused the crash but are looking into whether Street may have experienced a medical emergency.
Police performed CPR on the man until firefighters arrived to take over life-saving efforts, but they were unsuccessful.
As of Thursday, the officer remained in the hospital but is now in stable condition.
It was the highest number of traffic deaths the city has seen since at least 1984, the Berkeley Police Department found.
A 58-year-old Berkeley man was charged with vehicular hit-and-run causing injury, driving without a license and parole violation.
“If they don’t revise their practice of texting drivers while driving with unmounted cellphones,” said Mark Webb, “there will be more accidents.”
A driver struck 90-year-old Jacque Ensign as she walked on Marin Avenue near her North Berkeley home earlier this month.
The crashes took place Thursday and Friday just one block apart.
The woman, a 43-year-old mother, was on her way to meet her husband and their three children for lunch when the crash happened.
The pedestrian was crossing at Marin and Euclid avenues when the driver, who was coming down the hill, struck her in the crosswalk, police said.
The Berkeley Fire Department rushed the woman to Highland Hospital in an effort to save her life. She was not breathing and had no pulse.
Authorities said the men had gotten out of their vehicles to argue about the collision and were standing in traffic when the other driver hit them.
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