Nurses and people go, so what happened and i go i got hit by a car in a crosswalk and i go, that person is in a lot of trouble and go, no. None. She doesnt have to pay anything and shes she got her license and she can hit anyone she wants. After talking to jakiya about her experience, we wondered why wasnt the driver held responsible for her actions. To try to understand this situation, we contacted rock sff, a San Francisco Advocacy Group where we met Nicole Snider who helped explain why our citys policies are the way they are and what is being done to change them. Even if a person is killed, only 65 percent of people who commit those crimes are actually cited. As it turns out, pedestrian who were hit by cared make up 50 percent of traffic deaths in San Francisco. This is nearly four times the National Average and the second highest rate in all cities outside of new york. Our streets are defined poorly and made for cars and not people. We see it because we also dont prosecute and dont
They see someone hit you and although everyone around says they hit you, they still dont get a ticket, so while being in the hospital or going back for appointments and speaking with the doctors or nurses and people go, so what happened and i go i got hit by a car in a crosswalk and i go, that person is in a lot of trouble and go, no. None. She doesnt have to pay anything and shes she got her license and she can hit anyone she wants. After talking to jakiya about her experience, we wondered why wasnt the driver held responsible for her actions. To try to understand this situation, we contacted rock sff, a San Francisco Advocacy Group where we met Nicole Snider who helped explain why our citys policies are the way they are and what is being done to change them. Even if a person is killed, only 65 percent of people who commit those crimes are actually cited. As it turns out, pedestrian who were hit by cared make up 50 percent of traffic deaths in San Francisco. This is nearly four times
Like what can we do to help. We worked with the city to adopt this it lays out a series of ways to get there from city design and street design, enforcement and working with sfpd and the das office and sff plays a role in getting that strategy released and coming up with this strategy and sharing that data publicly and engaging the public. What about the people who are suffering from these types of accidents today. These are for our City Council Members and lawmakers. We ask the personal injury lawyer practicing here in San Francisco what his insight is on the occurring situation. The way the Justice System is set up, unless they kill them, its intended to compensate somebody. Its rare that its intended to punish. When you punish someone, you can get punitive damages and in some instances, its hard to get punitive damages in a case. We probably had 40 cases a year. We only accept cases we think we can prevail on. Its frightening and it needs to change. This is something that we need to
Still dont get a ticket, so while being in the hospital or going back for appointments and speaking with the doctors or nurses and people go, so what happened and i go i got hit by a car in a crosswalk and i go, that person is in a lot of trouble and go, no. None. She doesnt have to pay anything and shes she got her license and she can hit anyone she wants. After talking to jakiya about her experience, we wondered why wasnt the driver held responsible for her actions. To try to understand this situation, we contacted rock sff, a San Francisco Advocacy Group where we met Nicole Snider who helped explain why our citys policies are the way they are and what is being done to change them. Even if a person is killed, only 65 percent of people who commit those crimes are actually cited. As it turns out, pedestrian who were hit by cared make up 50 percent of traffic deaths in San Francisco. This is nearly four times the National Average and the second highest rate in all cities outside of new