March 10, 2008
Market Street Hit-Run Injures Cyclist, Kills Dog
A little before midnight on Sunday, at the notoriously dangerous Octavia and Market Street intersection, a driver plowed into a 27-year-old bicyclist, injuring her and killing her dog "who was either being carried or riding in a bike basket," according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens.
Tom Moulas, 40, turned himself in at 2 a.m. this morning, a couple of hours after he fled the scene, and was booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run. The name of the cyclist, as well as her current condition, hasn't been released yet. We wish her a speedy recovery and our sincerest condolences.
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so, when is the city going to actually do something about this intersection, as well as the fell/masonic intersection?
how many cyclists need to get injured or killed?
i go through both of these intersections on my daily commute and they are both terrifying and impractical to avoid
This intersection is a disgrace. And what is up with all the hit and runs? Everyone knows the one way to murder someone and get away with it is by running them down with your car and say "oops, my bad."
The only way for something to change is if G. Newsom
or one of our city supervisors gets hit or killed while riding a bike (or one of there loved ones).
Then they MIGHT do something.
Did you hear about the two professional cyclists from the Bay Area who were struck and killed (a third was injured) by a sheriff on a routine patrol in Cupertino yesterday? Awful.
Never mind -- I just hit refresh and saw the new post.
Seriously, did an intern figure out the traffic patterns when designing this futuristic boulevard? It's not just Market/Octavia. Fell/Octavia is also scary.
Laguna between Haight and Page is also a nightmare in the morning- nobody lets the bus have its turn, so it just sits there, or it does something sketchy.
How about re-routing the bike line down around mcCoppin and onto Valencia - UNDER the freeway.
Anyone know if the truck did the typical illegal right turn from Market? It seems from the article that he was driving down Gough.