Personal Injury Law

Woman Dies in San Diego Pedicab Accident

By Ross Jurewitz

San Diego has recently had its eyes on the almost unprecedented tragedy in a fatal pedicab ride. On July 4, a 60-year-old passenger who took a ride from a pedicab driver in the Downtown district died as a result of the ride after she fell from the wagon and suffered life threatening head injuries that ultimately took her life.

A report claims that the 23-year-old driver, Sukru Safa Cinar was riding in an unsafe and eratic manner when the passenger, 60-year-old school teacher Sharon Miller, slipped from the pedicab and struck her head on the ground. The exact charge against the driver, who was arrested, is still unknown. SDPD spokesperson Monica Munoz mentioned that the driver used poor judgment when driving on the Martin Luther King Promenade on the north side of the trolley tracks, near 2nd and J Street in the San Diego Gaslamp District. The area where the accident took place is clearly marked for no bicycles, skateboards, or pedicabs. Munoz mentioned that the driver was swerving from left to right as he rode. Miller and her husband had been in town for a National Education Conference, and she was riding with another female passenger when she fell to her death.

Miller was taken to the UCSD Medical Center where she died Sunday evening. The driver remained on the scene to answer police question about the incident. You can read more about this San Diego pedicab accident in this 10News.com story.

Full post as published by San Diego Injury Lawyer Blog on July 11, 2009 (boomark / email).