Apple executive Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, 40, his wife, movie producer Matilde Ramos Pinto, 38, and their two young sons were heading to the San Francisco Zoo
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- In March 2024, a family of four waiting for the bus in San Francisco was struck and killed by an elderly woman driving a Mercedes SUV
- The two parents and their 20-month- and 2-month-old sons were on their way to the zoo to celebrate the couple’s anniversary
- Mary Fong Lau, 80, pleaded no contest to four felony counts vehicular manslaughter and is likely to avoid jail time when she is sentenced on March 20
A Northern California woman who pleaded no contest to hitting and killing a family of four will likely avoid jail, sparking outrage among the family’s loved ones.
Just after 12 p.m. on March 16, 2024, Apple executive Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, 40, and his wife, Matilde Ramos Pinto, 38, were on their way to the San Francisco Zoo with their 2-month and 20-month-old sons to celebrate their wedding anniversary when tragedy struck.
The family was waiting at a bus stop near Ulloa Street and Lenox Way in the city’s West Portal neighborhood when the 2014 Mercedes SUV driven on the wrong side of the road by Mary Fong Lau, then 78, careened onto a sidewalk and into the bus stop at 70 mph, striking all four, the San Francisco Police Department said in a release on March 18, 2024…