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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA friend died a rather horrible death over the weekend
not a particularly close friend, but still...
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Woman-in-wheelchair-struck-on-Market-Street-dies-6813630.php
Thu Phan, 38, of Berkeley was crossing Market near Seventh Street when she was struck around 10 a.m. Friday and thrown from her wheelchair, police and the city medical examiner said.
The driver was turning from Seventh onto Market, police said. It was unclear whether Phan was in a crosswalk or had the right of way. The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with officers.
Investigators were trying to track down surveillance-camera footage of the crash.
Thu did not strike me as the type to "jayroll". (Believe me, I've seen plenty of chair users who do. ) Certainly not across Market St., which is as crowded as, say, Broadway in NYC.
My fondest memory of Thu came a few years ago. With my usual exquisite sense of timing , I had thrown myself at her mere weeks after she had started a relationship with a normate (person without a disability). She felt bad enough that she offered to set me up with a friend of hers. Well, the whole thing worked exactly as well as you would expect a setup to work on a sitcom or in a B-movie. I knew I had blown it like a pyromaniac sneezing on his last match when the friend shook my hand as we parted!
Then again, if I had managed to hook up with Thu in the first place, I would have had a few wonderful years, but would at this moment be out on a ledge, with some people trying to talk me down and others yelling "Jump! Jump!".
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)My sincere condolences ...
I have been in that section of downtown San Francisco ... SO much traffic, both street and sidewalk ... Wonderful place, but sadder today ... So sorry ...
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)for the loss of your friend. (((HUGS)))
kairos12
(12,869 posts)Kaleva
(36,328 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)mackerel
(4,412 posts)and wondered if maybe her wheels got stuck or some kind of stall happened.
Sorry for your loss, she sounded hella cool.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I hadn't thought of that.
Hella cool indeed -- but not even the hella coolest person with a disability I know in the East Bay! That and walkability explain why I'm trying to get up there from "Sad Jose".
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)too young
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)You're like some dark angel, descending just to take a dump on KamaAina's post about his friend,
pinboy3niner
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marble falls
(57,157 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)I know how you feel though - it happened in my neighborhood last week as well and my whole street is still reeling from it. It definitely sucks when something like this happens.