No jail time for driver who killed family of 4 at West Portal bus stop
San Francisco Chronicle • • nation
Key Points:
- Mary Fong Lau, 80, was sentenced to probation, 200 hours of community service, and a three-year driver's license revocation for a 2024 crash that killed a family of four in San Francisco, with no jail time or home detention ordered by Judge Bruce Chan.
- Lau pleaded no contest to four felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter; the judge cited her age, lack of criminal history, remorse, and the fact her husband had died in a car crash as reasons for probation instead of incarceration.
- The crash occurred when Lau’s vehicle reached speeds up to 70 mph before hitting a bus stop where the victims—a couple and their two young children—were waiting, resulting in immediate deaths and severe injuries
