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The parents of a 4-year-old child struck and killed by a car while on the sidewalk in downtown Burlingame filed a lawsuit against multiple parties on Thursday, alleging “preventable failures.”
On the evening of Aug. 8, 2025, Ayden Fang was playing with a friend on the sidewalk outside Truffle Poké Bar on Donnelly Avenue while his family sat nearby. Around 6:20 p.m., a vehicle crashed onto the sidewalk, killing him.
The family’s lawsuit alleges that nineteen-year-old driver Mari Abey, who was attempting to exit a parking lot, had an obstructed view of oncoming traffic by a large SUV legally parked by the driveway. At the same time, an 11-year-old boy riding east on a Class 2 electric bicycle while carrying his 10-year-old sister as a passenger, collided with the SUV’s door. Abey accelerated over the curb and onto the sidewalk, striking Fang, before crashing through the front of the restaurant…