Michelle Perez drove to a nearby store on a recent Thursday evening to buy groceries for dinner with her boyfriend’s 6-year-old twin boys buckled in the back seat of her Toyota Corolla.
Perez said she glanced left while passing through a residential intersection at 105th Avenue and Pearmain Street in East Oakland. But there was no time to react to the Lexus SUV barreling toward her at 50 mph.
“It happened so fast,” Perez, 48, said. “We were just smashed. I just heard the windshield cracking. … The door was just crushed into me, into my side.”…