A bicyclist suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs and a broken collarbone when an Uber driver allegedly struck him on purpose with his car on Sunday afternoon in San Francisco’s Fisherman Wharf area, according to police.
The ride-booking service driver, identified by police as Emerson Decarvalho, 38, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a vehicle shortly after the collision at about 1 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of North Point and Taylor streets.
According to police, the 45-year-old victim was bicycling near the intersection when he reached out his hand and struck the window of a black four-door Toyota Camry. The driver of the Toyota allegedly retaliated by intentionally hitting the victim with the car, knocking him from the bicycle and rendering him unconscious, police said.
Police and emergency crews arrived at the scene and transported the victim to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment of his injuries, which are not considered life-threatening. Decarvalho was arrested and booked into San Francisco County Jail, police said.
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Page 17 of San Francisco Municipal Transit Agencys Strategic Plan FY 2013 - FY 2018 is to make, "Make transit, walking, bicycling, taxi, ridesharing and carsharing the preferred means of travel."
1. City Hall encouraged more people to ride bicycles, then all but exempted them from following traffic rules.
2. They brought thousands of pedestrians into downtown, then allowed them to jaywalk at will, often with their heads buried in their latest mobile devices.
3. And now, in the name of tech, City Hall is allowing hundreds of ride-share gypsy cabs onto the streets without commercial driver’s licenses.
4. The city is now dumping millions of our tax dollars into "vision zero" as a tool to encourage heavy-handed
revenue-based enforcement on people who need to drive because MUNI is sounreliable. Under "vision zero" pedestrians and cyclists will bear NO RESPONSIBILITY for their own safety and by extension, for their actions
on the road.
Pompous City Leaders are given permitted parking spaces in front of City Hall, don't ride MUNI and then blame the taxpayers for theunsafe streets and overall mess that they created with Public transit and ride sharing companies.
Let take a minute to thank Mayor Mustache and the Board of Hypocrites for their incompetence. (clap clap clap clap clap clap).
What are you? a PR social media spy FLACK for the the taxi car driving Uber shits? Get of it.