This long list is the CHP Traffic Incident Log from this morning through lunchtime starting with the Devil’s Slide fatality early in the morning over 70 collisions, and this is just in the Bay Area. Shocking…

Golden Gate Communications Center No Time Type Location Area 2379 2:02PM Traffic Collision – Ambulance Responding SB SR29 JSO IMOLA AV W Napa 2378 2:02PM Traffic Collision – No Details NB US101 JSO CAPITOL EXWY San Jose 2377 2:02PM Traffic Hazard – Debris/Objects SB I280 JSO CITY COLLEGE PARKING LOT San Francisco 2376 2:01PM Traffic Hazard ARKANSAS ST AT MADERA ST Golden Gate Communications Center 2374 2:01PM Traffic Collision – No Details WB I80 JWO CARQUINEZ TOLL PZ Solano 2373 2:00PM Traffic Collision – No Details NB I280 JNO NB I880 San Jose 2369 1:59PM Traffic Collision – Property Damage EB I580 JWO RICHMOND BLVD Oakland 2368 1:59PM Traffic Collision – Ambulance Responding EB I580 JEO TOLL PZ Oakland 2366 1:59PM Traffic Collision – Property Damage NB E WASHINGTON ST ONR TO SB US101 Santa Rosa 2365 1:59PM Traffic Collision – Property [Read more →]

Recent graffiti at Montara Beach parking lot

I don’t like graffiti. But… I found this sort of amusing and misguided all at the same time, the person(s) who spray painted this concrete barrier is obviously referring to the recent accident where 24-year-old Jesse Garcia drove over the edge of the slide. They may be friend or family or just a citizen with an opinion (and no sense of civil pride). From what I have read this would not have stopped the guy going over the edge anyway, he apparently was speeding in dense fog. Next time please try writing to Cal Trans with your suggestions rather than make an ugly piece of concrete even uglier. But hey, don’t stop caring.

A Millbrae man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he caused a deadly Saturday accident on Devil’s Slide that resulted in the death of a 32-year-old woman. [Read more →]