A Berkeley man has died more than a month after he suffered a head injury when he crashed his scooter on the Cal campus, authorities said.
UC Berkeley Police said the man was found unconscious on Dec. 1 near Moffitt Library in the center of campus, after witnesses said he fell off his scooter at high speed and hit his head. The man was unconscious but breathing at the time, Sgt. Jacob Westlie wrote in an email, and was taken to a hospital.
The Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau contacted UC police this week to notify them that the man was being taken off life support, Westlie said, “as he had not recovered from his traumatic brain injury.”
The coroner’s office identified the man as Kenneth Wade, 59. Wade died Monday, coroner’s bureau technician Brandi Foscalina said.
His death was first reported by The Berkeley Scanner.
Westlie did not say what kind of scooter Wade was riding in the Dec. 1 crash, or whether he was wearing a helmet.
The crash proved to be the second fatal collision involving a scooter rider in Berkeley last month — Jorge Eduardo Velazquez Sosa, a 34-year-old Oakland man, died after he crashed his Segway scooter into a parked car in central Berkeley on Dec. 13.
Moffitt Library on the UC Berkeley campus. Credit: Ned Fielden
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Nico Savidge is Berkeleyside’s associate editor, and has covered city hall since 2021. He has reported on transportation, law enforcement, politics, education and college sports for the San Jose Mercury…
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