A motorcyclist who died in a crash late last month in Hayward was released Sunday by the Alameda County coroner’s office that identified him as 33-year-old San Francisco resident Andrea Bittau.
Bittau crashed at about 5:15 p.m. on Feb. 25 on A Street, just east of Hesperian Boulevard. Bittau was riding a blue Yamaha bike on A Street when he apparently lost control of it and crashed into a utility pole.
Bittau was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he died, according to police.
Bittau was born in Bulgaria, according to an obituary published by Driscoll’s Valencia St. Serra Mortuary in San Francisco.
According to officials with the Department of Computer Science at the University College London, Bittau was an undergraduate there in 2001 and earned a doctorate in computer science there in 2005.
Following graduation, Bittau was postdoctoral student at Stanford University where he was part of the Stanford Secure Computer Systems group led by professor David Mazières before joining a Silicon Valley startup named Pure Storage. He joined Google’s security research group last year, according to two professors at University College London.
Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call Hayward police Sgt. Jason Corsolini at (510) 293-7149.
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I’m so sorry. A terrible loss for this man’s family, friends, colleagues and the Bay Area community.
This is a tragedy. With immigrants who are ESL and new drivers, both learning from online classes, the roads are no longer safe. Back in the day, we took driver’s education after school and were completely prepared with knowledge prior to stepping into the driver’s training car. New drivers nowadays don’t know or follow the rules of driving. Believe me, I have teens and the online classes don’t prepare them well.
Mom hit a note about drivers undereducated by online programs for Driver Education.
I have stopped bike riding anywhere– and I used to bike everywhere– until being hit by such drivers twice in a three year period.
The last one had been sold a Mercedes S Class vehicle by Smythe European only a few days after getting his CDL in Redwood City. A wealthy immigrant, he had never driven before living in the US, and a big, complicated car like that was too much for his inexperience!
I spent two weeks in the hospital after the accident, then had to have my left hip, knee and ankle replaced– another week in the hospital, plus six months of physical therapy!
Wealthy or not, I had to sue the guy to get him to pay for what Kaiser wouldn’t, which was $400/day hospital and ALL of the PT, which came to nearly $30,000: more than this guy was insured for!
I wish that car dealers would be forced to take responsibility when they knowingly sell to a new, inexperienced driver. They always look at you CDL, so of course they know if you are a new driver–to say nothing of obvious things that would come up during the test drive!