A Berkeley man has died more than a month after he suffered a head injury when he crashed his scooter on the Cal campus, authorities said. UC Berkeley Police said the man was found unconscious on Dec. 1 near Moffitt Library in the center of campus, after witnesses said he fell off his scooter at high speed and hit his head. The man was unconscious but breathing at the time, Sgt. Jacob Westlie wrote in an email, and was taken to a hospital.
According to police sources, a 29-year-old man driving a 2009 Honda Civic was traveling southbound on Crescent Street in Astoria when he made an eastbound turn on 30th Drive. As he did so, cops reported, he collided with a 54-year-old woman riding an electric, stand-up scooter traveling northbound on Crescent Street. The woman was ejected from her scooter, suffering severe head trauma.