Jonathan Baron Snedaker, 28, was arraigned on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, battery causing serious bodily injury and vandalism according to Deputy District Attorney Linda Witong.
If convicted, he could face up to seven years prison time.
Police received a 911 call regarding an assault at the San Rafael Transit Center Sunday morning, according to [...]
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Electrical burns make up 4% to 6.5% of all admissions to burn units in the United States and result in approximately 1,000 deaths (electrocutions) each year, most of them preventable. Electrical accidents and electrocution are one of the highest causes of death for workers in the construction industry. When a worker’s body or tool he [...]
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Construction is a dangerous industry, with high rates of fatal and nonfatal injuries. Each year, several thousand construction workers are killed and hundreds of thousands are injured in work-related accidents. The construction worker may be injured or killed during the construction (or demolition) of a singe family residence, a planned community, a strip mall, a [...]
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Metrolink is a 512-mile rail transit system which is the result of a five-county united effort to meet the needs of working commuters and others, linking communities to employment and activity centers. Those five counties are represented by the coming together of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transporation Authority (MTA), the Orange County Transportation Authority [...]
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Early this morning, in the Marina, a Muni bus crashed into a car injuring three. The crash occurred near the intersection of Lombard and Franklin at around 1:30am. The three people who were injured were taken to a nearby hospital.
The three injured people were all traveling in the car and it is not clear whether [...]
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Among its various duties, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is responsible for the planning, design, construction, maintenance, repair, and management of more than 45,000 miles of California’s highways and freeways. Caltrans and its predecessors have been active in moving the people and commerce of California for more than 100 years from a loosely connected [...]
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There are two types of road construction accidents: (1) accidents resulting from the actual construction of a road, freeway, bridge, on- or off-ramp, etc., and (2) accidents that arise from a road that was built with no structural flaws but is inherently dangerous because of its design, lack of or improperly timed traffic signals, or [...]
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Last night, a Muni train struck and seriously injured a pedestrian walking near Second and King Street. While the circumstances of this dangerous incident are still not clear, it appears that William Brand, a retired journalist, who worked for the Oakland Tribune walked onto the tracks of an oncoming train.
The San Francisco police department is [...]
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