District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced during a press conference on Tuesday that the driver who is suspected of killing a family in March in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood has been charged with vehicular manslaughter by the state.
Four family members were killed in the March collision, and the 78-year-old driver is expected to be charged with four counts of vehicular manslaughter.
Joaquin Ramos Pinto de Oliveira, age one, and Caue Ramos Pinto de Oliveira, age three months, have been identified as the victims. The victims are Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, 40, and Matilde Ramos Pinto, 38.
According to an SFMTA report, the driver was speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road at the time.
DA According to Brooke Jenkins, the preliminary inquiry reveals no evidence that the driver was impaired by drugs or alcohol or experiencing a medical condition.
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The car was also discovered to be completely operational.
“We have evidence that the vehicle was traveling at excessive speeds, well in excess of the speed limit, DA Brooke Jenkins stated. “This isn’t somebody going a few miles over the speed limit, this was excessive speeds and driving in a manner that was not safe and that could reasonably – foreseeably cause death.”
