Posted on 10/23/2011 6:25:04 AM PDT by csvset
A paratransit bus driver intentionally rammed a Hells Angels biker on Interstate 580, and then dragged him about a mile, killing him, a CHP spokesman said.
The biker, who has not been identified, was traveling eastbound on I-580 in San Leandro near Grand Avenue with a small group of Hells Angels members before 4 p.m. when an altercation began, said CHP Sgt. Trent Cross. After being hit, the motorcyclist and his bike were dragged for about a mile, said San Leandro police Lt. Greg Lemmon. Eventually, the biker was released from under the East Bay Paratransit bus, but the driver kept dragging the motorcycle, which was wedged underneath the front grill, until the vehicle stopped on the shoulder just east of the 150th Avenue onramp.
The Hells Angels biker was flown to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead, Lemmon said.
The bus driver has been arrested, Lemmon said. Police are interviewing four witnesses who saw the incident.
"The preliminary information they are providing was that it wasn't an accident, it was an intentional ramming," Lemmon said.
All eastbound lanes were closed from Grand Avenue to 150th Avenue so police could conduct a homicide investigation over a large swath of freeway, Cross said. The lanes were expected to remain closed until 10 or 11 p.m., he said, and there were significant traffic delays in the area.
An East Bay Paratransit manager referred calls to First Transit, a contract agency that operates the bus. The First Transit representative did not return calls.
No passengers were on board the bus during the collision, said San Leandro police Sgt. Doug Calcagno. The paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities.
It has been a tragic autumn for the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
San Jose chapter President Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew was killed outside a Nevada casino last month. At his packed funeral Oct. 15, Steve Tausan, a 52-year-old Hells Angels enforcer and friend of Pettigrew's, was shot dead.
Also on Saturday, San Jose police served a search warrant at a Stockton house for 38-year-old Steven Ruiz, whom they say killed Tausan. After a lengthy standoff, police determined he was not in the house.
There is no such thing as a prison where the HA’s can’t ‘reach’ somebody if they want to.
They have their factions.
*And* the “infamous photo” was staged.
The BF’s still laugh about it.
I’m a bike rider, not a biker!
I would never claim to be a biker...good or bad.
You wouldn't have to worry about that. You'd never get the thing to start anyway.
You are truly a good soul.
I even got a little choked up, reading that.
Angels are not the most prominent MC around here but one of the other “big 3” has watched over hubby and I for almost 18 years, simply because we helped one that was stranded on the interstate, one time.
They never forget a kindness and never cease to repay it....even many years after the stranded brother had passed away.
Nobody but Riley has.
/facepalm
If so, his new-found familiarity truly has bred contempt.
Maybe you’re thinking of the time Sonny Barger kicked the antiwar protester hippie asses and then offered up a huge bunch of his guys for Viet Nam service.
LOL, probably true. Though my great-uncle rode all over the place on that Bonnie.
By George, you're right! I stand humiliated and corrected :-(
I was wondering how they got the dope out without losing all their oil but figgered I was in the Presence of Greatness and dared not question it.
:)
That cow looks a little sketchy too. Probably a milk pusher.
“Associates”.
And it’s tasty, too!
Mmmmmm!
[Got 2%er?]
Nice place to put a photo of a missing bus driver’s face, too.
And...now I’ll be humming a certain Steppenwolf song all night.
Thanks...LOL
Let me help you.. it says "Judge not... ye hypocrite"...
Who is not to judge? A hypocrite.. then the verse goes on to tell a hypocrite how to start judging rightly again.
Most Christians understand "Judge Rightly" instead of "Judge not" !
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