i talked to an old friend last week who claimed his wife got recently run over and killed in a crosswalk in san jose, and other people have supposedly been either killed or injured in this same crosswalk, so he is now pursuing a $2.5 million dollar lawsuit against the city of san jose to make sure it never happens again (he has secured a great lawyer from marin county, a lawyer i will be contacting for my own purposes soon)...
he was not alerted about his wife's death until many hours after the accident when she had already passed away, and he is still extremely emotionally distraught over how the incident was treated...adding to this; one of the SJ cops on the scene waved-on one of two vehicles which witnessed the event, and the teenage driver (the daughter of a rich local mountainside resident with government clout) who killed his wife basically had her hand slapped and was not punished for the incident...
since then my friend has been repeatedly harassed by various individuals (including the police) who appear to be out to silence him for 'knowing too much' and threatening to dig his paws into city coffers $$$ - and he even alluded to the strong possibility that his ex-employer (a construction company from los gatos) may be tied in with organized crime, and/or that the father of the teenage driver who killed his wife may have contaced this ex-employer to gather information on him to use in the court case against him...
what it amounts to is a major conspiratorial effort to cover-up the situation, which could eventually; a) spiral out of control when the other victims' families catch wind of the situation and choose to file lawsuits as well; and/or b) cause another major redirection of government funds towards relatively lower costing traffic calming measures, which would likely outmode many cakewalking traffic cop jobs...
he was not alerted about his wife's death until many hours after the accident when she had already passed away, and he is still extremely emotionally distraught over how the incident was treated...adding to this; one of the SJ cops on the scene waved-on one of two vehicles which witnessed the event, and the teenage driver (the daughter of a rich local mountainside resident with government clout) who killed his wife basically had her hand slapped and was not punished for the incident...
since then my friend has been repeatedly harassed by various individuals (including the police) who appear to be out to silence him for 'knowing too much' and threatening to dig his paws into city coffers $$$ - and he even alluded to the strong possibility that his ex-employer (a construction company from los gatos) may be tied in with organized crime, and/or that the father of the teenage driver who killed his wife may have contaced this ex-employer to gather information on him to use in the court case against him...
what it amounts to is a major conspiratorial effort to cover-up the situation, which could eventually; a) spiral out of control when the other victims' families catch wind of the situation and choose to file lawsuits as well; and/or b) cause another major redirection of government funds towards relatively lower costing traffic calming measures, which would likely outmode many cakewalking traffic cop jobs...
