STREET SAFETY ADVOCATES ARE CRITICIZING A PLEA DEAL FOR THE DRIVER ACCUSED OF KILLING A FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL IN A STROLLER LAST AUGUST HAPPENED ON KING AND FOURTH STREETS NEAR CALTRAIN AND ORACLE PARK. >> ABC SEVEN NEWS REPORTER SUZANNE FAWN IS IN THE NEWSROOM, WITH MORE ON THE SENTENCING AND A STORY YOU'LL SEE ONLY ON SEVEN. ALMOST 71 YEAR-OLD DRIVER KAREN CARTAGENA WILL NOT HAVE TO GO TO JAIL AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO A MISDEMEANOR VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. >> MISS CARTAGENA IS PROFOUNDLY AND UTTERLY DEVASTATED BY WHAT HAPPENED. >> ATTORNEY GREG MENDEZ REPRESENTS KAREN CARTAGENA. THE 71 YEAR OLD DROVE INTO A FAMILY AT FOURTH AND KING, KILLING A FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL IN A STROLLER . POLICE SAY IT WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT, MENDEZ EXPLAINS WHAT LED UP TO THE COLLISION AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT, THERE WERE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE WHICH SUGGESTED THAT MISS CARTAGENA SHOULD CONTINUE DRIVING. >> TAKING THE RIGHT TURN BASED UPON INDICATIONS FROM A TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPERATOR AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT, AT LEAST ONE PERSON BEHIND HER WAS APPARENTLY HONKING THEIR HORN, INDICATING THAT SHE WAS HOLDING UP TRAFFIC AND THAT SHE SHOULD DRIVE AHEAD. >> MENDEZ SAYS CARTAGENA READ AN EMOTIONAL LETTER OF APOLOGY IN COURT THAT BROUGHT THE JUDGE AND OTHERS TO TEARS. >> SHE IS BEYOND REMORSEFUL, AND HER LIFE, IS, HAS BEEN FOREVER CHANGED. >> THE VICTIM'S FAMILY, WHO ARE NOW BACK IN KOREA, ALSO HAD HEARTFELT WRITTEN LETTERS READ BY A TRANSLATOR. CARTAGENA WILL FACE TWO YEARS OF COURT PROBATION, 400 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND SHE'LL NEED TO COMPLETE A DRIVER'S ED COURSE. LUKE BORNHEIMER, A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION ADVOCATE, DOES NOT AGREE WITH. >> I THINK THERE'S A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT SET WHEN YOU GIVE REALLY LENIENT, YOU KNOW, SENTENCES FOR PEOPLE KILLING OTHER PEOPLE WITH THEIR CARS RIGHT AFTER THE COLLISION, SFMTA REDUCED THE TWO RIGHT HAND TURN LANES FROM FOURTH ONTO KING STREET TO A SINGLE LANE, SAYING IT WOULD SLOW TRAFFIC AND REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CARS GOING THROUGH THE CROSSWALK. >> BORNHEIMER SAYS THOSE CHANGES ARE NOT ENOUGH. >> THE CITY REALLY NEEDS TO REDESIGN STREETS LIKE KING STREET, AND MANY OTHER STREETS SO THAT THERE ARE LESS DRIVING LANES AND, YOU KNOW, USE THAT SPACE TO CREATE MORE SPACE FOR PEOPLE AND MORE SPACE FOR PROTECTED BIKE LANES. >> SAN FRANCISCO ADOPTED VISION ZERO TEN YEARS AGO WITH THE GOAL OF ZERO TRAFFIC DEATHS, SAFETY AND ADVOCATES SAY THE CITY IS STILL FAR FROM REACHING THAT GOAL, BUT SFMTA SAYS IT HAS REDUCED THE NUMBER OF FATAL COLLISIONS AND SEVERE TRAFFIC RELATED INJURIES. IT HAS ADDED A NUMBER OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES, AND THE CITY
