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Bicyclist Collides With Brown’s Car

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From a Times Staff Writer

Assembly Speaker Willie Brown’s 1984 Jaguar and a bicyclist en route to work collided Tuesday at a sidewalk crossing on a driveway leading to the state Capitol garage, injuring the cyclist and damaging her bike.

Brown, driving to work after making a speech to University of California alumni, was unhurt.

The only damage to his sleek black car was a slight dent in the hood where the cyclist, Barbara Weiss, 26, apparently hit and catapulted over the vehicle.

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Witnesses told police that Weiss was riding fast down the sidewalk, failed to obey a red light and slammed into Brown’s vehicle. “She was going like hell. . . ,” said one witness.

Brown estimated he was traveling 15 to 20 m.p.h. when he braked to avoid the crash.

“She hit me. The bike was going faster than I was going,” the San Francisco Democrat said. “She was moving.”

Weiss, an employee of the state Personnel Board, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she was reported in fair condition with a cut on her head.

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