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.
It has been a tragic autumn for the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
Couple of shooting deaths, now this.
The bus driver is living on borrowed time.
Racial motivations likely. It would never be reported that way of course. Unless the roles were reversed, in which case it would be a 6-month-long national story...
Murder, plain and simple.
I’m not for Hell or her angels, but I’m against what motorists do to motorcyclists (and bicyclists). There’s too much four-wheeled manslaughter and murder on our roads. The law needs to crack down.
The best thing the bus driver could hope for is a fast conviction and a life sentence in solitary confinement...
“paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities”
Those buses are always empty. I see more of those buses around here than normal buses
He won’t last an hour in prison. In fact I give him less than twenty minutes in the population.
They killed the redneck in a public place and one of them (won't say his name—may still be alive) went to prison for manslaughter because everyone knew he pulled the trigger but there was not enough evidence for a murder charge.
When he got out after four years he immediatly murdered his girlfriend for fooling around while he was locked up.
And THIS guy was one of the nice ones!
Dead driver.
Another dirtbag thug down! Good news!
The bus driver has now become a “1 percenter” himself.
Course that’s his survival percentage.
That would depend on which group protects him in prison. What is one of the two largest (and growing) cults in US prisons ?
hehehe
Bikers aren’t all thugs. Try seeing some of the world before commenting on it from your blinkered armchair.
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Seriesly, if these EB Paratransit drivers drive anything like those in Santa Clara County, they're maniacs.
“Bikers arent all thugs”
Hells Angels are.
strikes me as odd that a guy driving a bus for people in wheelchairs would get into it with the hells angels. doesnt that seem odd?
and why would hells angels pick a fight with a wheelchair bus?
more to this methinks.
"Personally", I mean?
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