Fremont Hit-and-Runs and Drunk Driving Accidents Are Cause For Concern

The 213,000 residents in Fremont live in the largestAccording to the San Francisco Chronicle, a police
suburb in the bay area, right outside of San Francisco.spokesman said the attacks in the city occurred at 12
However, this doesn't change the fact that personallocations over the duration of a 20-minute period.
injury risks are part of the city's streets everyday.Witnesses recalled the driver, who held residents in
Fremont, like all of California in recent years, has seenFremont, as "zombie-like", as if he had no fear of
the rise in drunk driving car accidents and hit-and-runs.consequences.
Accidents of these sorts seem to be an epidemicFremont Product Liability Issues are Cause for
lawmakers and law enforcement are struggling to dealConcern
with.A Fremont auto body shop worker died in 2005 when
In 2005, a driver under the influence of alcoholhe was crushed by a lift that collapsed. According to
swerved and hit a Fremont police officer's car. Thethe Alameda County coroner, he was working at a
officer sustained minor injuries and the driver wasChevrolet dealership in Fremont. The 48-year-old
arrested.worker died when the portable scissor lift collapsed on
A more tragic accident occurred a couple years latertop of him. The lift had a car on it.
when a 22-year-old study abroad student was pulledFremont job accident attorneys are concerned that
over with his broken-down Toyota on a Fremontthe company was at fault for not maintaining their
shoulder of the Interstate 880. It was around 3:30 in theequipment or that the lift was defective, a case of
morning, when a driver in a Lexus came speedingproduct liability.
toward the off-ramp and broadsided the student in theAnother instance of a product acting differently than it
Lexus. Both cars slid 100 yards and the Lexus flippedwas expected to has resulted in the deaths of 140
on top of the Toyota.people across the country, including a man in Fremont.
It took Fremont firefighters 45 minutes to retrieve theA policeman was pursuing a suspect and shot him
victim's body from the wreckage. The Lexus driverwith a Taser gun between seven and nine times as
had fled the scene in the mean time. Any Fremontthe suspect attempted to escape over a wall. The
hit-and-run attorney will stress the importance of beingsuspect was taken to the hospital, where he seemed
a reliable driver, obeying the speed limits and DUI laws,to be fine, and then inexplicably fell unconscious and
and being responsible toward your fellow drivers,died.
especially if an accident has occurred.Taser guns are used by police to deliver a 50,000-volt
A strange string of hit-and-run accidents took place injolt to stop a person with brief incapacitation. Taser
the bay area in 2006, raising the awareness of theguns are used instead of real firearms when the intent
Fremont and San Francisco communities thatis not to kill the suspect, yet, in these instances people
hit-and-runs are a serious issue. Around 14 peoplehave been dying.
were injured or killed by a motorist who was seenProducts liability lawyers are unsure that the Taser gun
deliberately running people down on the streets of Sanis safe to use in cases where the shot is not meant to
Francisco. A 54-year-old man had been run down andkill. The product malfunction may be the fault of the
killed earlier in the day in Fremont, and the police linkedcompany that makes the Taser guns, or improper use
the events.of the guns by the police against suspects.