"MORE: 2-year-old baby, parents killed in SF West Portal bus stop crash identified ABC7 has also learned the victims Diego Cardoso de Oliveira and Matilde Ramos Pinto were celebrating their wedding anniversary as they were heading to the San Francisco Zoo with their two young children, Joaquin and Caue, before they were killed. They were waiting at the bus stop when Lau crashed into them."
"Lau's attorney asked the judge to consider her clean record and the fact that her husband died in a vehicle collision when she was 25 years old becoming a widow with 3 children, but the judge denied that request. "He had the power and authority to make the decision. I think his comment referred to the fact that he couldn't make the decision because the evidence did not support it. Given all he reviewed," said Jim Quadra with Quadra & Coll, LLP."
"In the courtroom, the victim's family members questioned why Lau didn't hit the brakes or honk as she was speeding 70 miles an hour in the residential area where she crashed. Lau's attorney said she was headed to her brother's house to bring him soup and couldn't explain why the vehicle "took off." Luz Pena: "How do you think that reasoning is going to play out in court?" Jim Quadra: "Well I can't say what the criminal case will be and what the strategy will be, I don't think that if I were to put myself in that place, I would""
A judge denied a request to reduce criminal charges for Mary Fong Lau, who crashed into a West Portal bus stop in San Francisco in 2024, killing a family of four. The victims, Diego Cardoso de Oliveira and Matilde Ramos Pinto, were traveling to the San Francisco Zoo with their two young children, Joaquin and Caue, and were celebrating their wedding anniversary. Family members described the request to reduce felonies to misdemeanors as "insulting" and recounted their pain. Lau's defense cited her clean record and past widowhood; the court found the evidence did not support reducing charges. Relatives questioned why she did not brake while speeding.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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