A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Friday that a woman accused of killing a family of four after she ran into a West Portal bus shelter will face four felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, despite efforts by her attorneys to reduce the charges.
Judge Bruce Chan denied a motion filed by an attorney for Mary Fong Lau, 80, who is accused of plowing into a couple and their young children while they waited for a bus to the San Francisco Zoo on March 16, 2024.
Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, 40, and his 1-year-old son, Joaquim Ramos Pinto de Oliveira, were killed on impact when Lau’s 2014 GLK-Series Mercedes sport utility vehicle slammed into the transit shelter in front of the West Portal Branch Library at speeds topping 70 mph…