Boat Runs Aground Near San Mateo Bridge
Drivers passing through the toll plaza on the San Mateo Bridge Thursday morning may have noticed a boat that ran aground.
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Drivers passing through the toll plaza on the San Mateo Bridge Thursday morning may have noticed a boat that ran aground.
In response to a deadly limousine fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge last month, East Bay lawmaker Ellen Corbett has introduced legislation that would add safety features in limos.
A memorial service was held Friday at the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco for the five women who died in last week's limousine fire on the San Mateo Bridge.
The man in charge of the firefighters who rushed to the scene of the deadly limousine fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge said he is satisfied with the response time by emergency personnel.
The California Highway Patrol is asking those who want to honor the five women who were killed in a limousine fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge last Saturday to refrain from putting memorial items on the bridge.
While the cause of Saturday night's fatal limousine fire on the San Mateo Bridge remains under investigation, questions are now being raised over how the limo industry is regulated.
The limousine which caught fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, killing five of nine passengers on board, was part of a nationwide recall because of issues with load limits on tires, investigators have found.
Conflicting accounts emerged Monday from the driver and a surviving passenger as to exactly what happened when a stretch limousine burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, killing five women and injuring four others.
The man who was behind the wheel when a limousine burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward bridge Saturday told CNN the situation "was just a nightmare."
Saturday's deadly limousine fire on the San Mateo Bridge raised questions about who routinely checks such vehicles for safety concerns. As ConsumerWatch discovered, the answer is nobody.
A coroner investigating the deaths of five women killed in a limousine fire as they were heading to a wedding party says their badly-burned bodies were found near the partition that separates the driver from the passengers.
All lanes reopened on the San Mateo Bridge Wednesday morning after a three-car injury crash clogged eastbound traffic, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
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Caltrans officials announced Sunday that the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge will not have to be closed next weekend because earthquake safety work on the bridge is ahead of schedule.
This weekend's closure began at 10 p.m. Friday and is expected to continue until 5 a.m. Monday. The span will shut down again the weekend of Oct. 26-29.
The first closure is this weekend and coincides with the possibility of three major sporting events across the Bay Area.
The California Dept. of Transportation is reminding motorists that it will close the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge over two weekends later this month: October 19-22 and October 26-29.
Caltrans plans to close the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge for at least one weekend in October to install a permanent fix for a cracked beam discovered in an expansion joint two years ago, transportation officials said Thursday.
U.S. Coast Guard crews were working Saturday morning to retrieve a boat that capsized near the San Mateo Bridge Friday afternoon.
A 16-year-old girl and a 51-year-old man were rescued after their boat capsized south of the San Mateo Bridge Friday afternoon.
A crash involving a big-rig and a motorcycle was blocking two lanes of westbound state Highway 92 in San Mateo Thursday morning, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
All lanes have been reopened on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge after a fatal collision that knocked out power on a section of the eastern portion Tuesday morning, according to the CHP.
Several lanes of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge were closed for four hours Friday morning as emergency crews worked to clean up a pair of traffic collisions.
A Los Altos woman who disappeared while windsurfing near Coyote Point Monday evening spent the night in the water before she was found just north of the San Mateo bridge the next morning.
Starting Friday, five-axle big-rigs will pay $18 -- up from $11.25 -- to cross the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Antioch, Benicia, Carquinez, Richmond-San Rafael, San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges. A year from now, the toll for those trucks will rise to $25.
