Tag: joshua rodriguez

Since the news always carries such a negative tone, this column will end 2015 with a bad and positive spin on some of the biggest local stories from the past year.

The bicycle that 11-year-old Joshua Rodriguez was riding when hit by a county transit bus while crossing Memorial Drive was not equipped with "brakes that were operational," according to a statement released by the Hollister Police Department Friday afternoon. 

Five weeks after 11-year-old Joshua Rodriguez was hit and killed by a county transit bus, the Hollister Police Department is continuing to work on the investigation while awaiting results, the police chief said.

Hollister Police Chief David Westrick indicated Thursday that investigators expect to finish the report next week regarding a July 27 fatal bus crash resulting in the death of an 11-year-old boy.

Getting out of my car along the sparsely driven yet frenetic, four-lane Memorial Drive shortly after Monday’s fatal accident involving a transit bus and 11-year-old boy on a bicycle, I veered on the sidewalk past a woman and three children—as they walked peacefully toward the unknowing calamity ahead—and saw through scattered collections of onlookers standing and watching, some at sidewalk level and others on slopes overlooking the scene, in stunned silence.

Interim Hollister Fire Department Chief Bill Garringer said he did not see a helmet at the scene of Monday's fatality on Memorial Drive.