Recent Streetsblog LA posts about hit and run

Bill Suspending Hit-and-Run Drivers’ Licenses Passes Assembly Committee

By Melanie Curry | Mar 12, 2014 | 6 Comments

The California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee voted 7-0 Tuesday to approve A.B. 1532, which would require an automatic license suspension for drivers who flee the scene of a crash where a person is hit, even if that person is not injured. That unanimous vote marks an exceptional win for the bill, which was introduced by […]

The Wheels of Justice Slowly Begin to Turn in the Hit-and-Run that Killed Andy Garcia

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 7, 2014 | No Comments

She made the decision to drink. She ran over me and my two friends, and she fled. She killed a friend of mine. My back and other bones were broken, and I was out of work for three months, recounted Mario Lopez (in Spanish, above), to a reporter from Canal 22 yesterday. He was one of […]

Hearing For One Hit-and-Run is Rescheduled While Another Takes the Life of a Young Man in Watts

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 5, 2014 | No Comments

When a female (who may or may not have been walking her bicycle) was hit and killed by a bus on Slauson in South L.A. last month, I got a few phone calls from friends in the area. “Was it you?” “No,” I reassured them. “I’m still here.” I was surprised they had heard about […]

“Nothing Brings Me Comfort”: Family of Hit-and-Run Victim Plan to Hold Ride to Driver’s Hearing

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 31, 2014 | 1 Comment

What goes through the mind of a drunk driver who senselessly mows people down? It’s a question the family and friends of Luis “Andy” Garcia are still waiting for answers to. Garcia, an experienced cyclist and recent transplant to L.A., was riding home with friends on the night of September 14th, 2013, when 21 year-old […]

New Gatto Legislation Requires License Suspension for All Hit and Run Drivers

By Damien Newton | Jan 22, 2014 | 7 Comments

Yesterday, Assemblyman Mike Gatto introduced legislation mandating that any driver who commits a hit and run offense, even if the victim is not seriously injured, forfeit their driver’s license for six months. Gatto’s legislation is his second effort to criminalize hit and run crashes following last year’s Assembly Bill 184 which extended the statute of […]

Hit-and-Run Victims and Surviving Family Members Face Drunk Driver at Her Arraignment

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 11, 2013 | 6 Comments

This past Wednesday, friends and family of Andy Garcia, killed in a brutal hit-and-run last month, came face to face with the woman that had upended their lives. “It was very hard and emotional being there and seeing the person who killed my friend Andy,” wrote Mario Lopez to me yesterday. Lopez was one of […]

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