| The 213,000 residents in Fremont live in the largest | | | | According 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 personal | | | | locations 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 seen | | | | Fremont, 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 epidemic | | | | Fremont Product Liability Issues are Cause for |
| lawmakers and law enforcement are struggling to deal | | | | Concern |
| with. | | | | A Fremont auto body shop worker died in 2005 when |
| In 2005, a driver under the influence of alcohol | | | | he was crushed by a lift that collapsed. According to |
| swerved and hit a Fremont police officer's car. The | | | | the Alameda County coroner, he was working at a |
| officer sustained minor injuries and the driver was | | | | Chevrolet 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 later | | | | top of him. The lift had a car on it. |
| when a 22-year-old study abroad student was pulled | | | | Fremont job accident attorneys are concerned that |
| over with his broken-down Toyota on a Fremont | | | | the company was at fault for not maintaining their |
| shoulder of the Interstate 880. It was around 3:30 in the | | | | equipment or that the lift was defective, a case of |
| morning, when a driver in a Lexus came speeding | | | | product liability. |
| toward the off-ramp and broadsided the student in the | | | | Another instance of a product acting differently than it |
| Lexus. Both cars slid 100 yards and the Lexus flipped | | | | was 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 the | | | | A policeman was pursuing a suspect and shot him |
| victim's body from the wreckage. The Lexus driver | | | | with a Taser gun between seven and nine times as |
| had fled the scene in the mean time. Any Fremont | | | | the suspect attempted to escape over a wall. The |
| hit-and-run attorney will stress the importance of being | | | | suspect 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 in | | | | jolt to stop a person with brief incapacitation. Taser |
| the bay area in 2006, raising the awareness of the | | | | guns are used instead of real firearms when the intent |
| Fremont and San Francisco communities that | | | | is not to kill the suspect, yet, in these instances people |
| hit-and-runs are a serious issue. Around 14 people | | | | have been dying. |
| were injured or killed by a motorist who was seen | | | | Products liability lawyers are unsure that the Taser gun |
| deliberately running people down on the streets of San | | | | is safe to use in cases where the shot is not meant to |
| Francisco. A 54-year-old man had been run down and | | | | kill. The product malfunction may be the fault of the |
| killed earlier in the day in Fremont, and the police linked | | | | company that makes the Taser guns, or improper use |
| the events. | | | | of the guns by the police against suspects. |