A 79-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of felony vehicular manslaughter related to a car crash that killed a family of four at a bus stop in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood in March.

Mary Fong Lau remains free before trial. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kenneth Wine forbade her from driving, but refrained from putting her under house arrest as prosecutors requested. Lau has not driven since the crash, her defense attorney Sam Geller told the court. 

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Anna Leah comes to Local News Matters from over fifteen years in documentary film – including a docu-series examining the national reach of conspiratorial thinking, never-before-seen materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and a history of currency. Currently, she is earning a master’s degree in feature writing, investigation, and data at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism (part of CUNY – the City University of New York). She focuses on building empathy with people who are often overlooked or oversimplified. More at annaleah.com.