A collision just before 6 a.m. this morning at 3rd and 22nd Street is still tying up traffic and slowing down Muni trains, according to Alert SF, which recommends avoiding the area. A police patrol car and a Muni T-line streetcar collided at the intersection at 5:45 a.m., injuring two police officers, a Muni passenger and the Muni driver. more ›

Well, this is terrible. Good samaritan Rudy Gonzales, 70, of Hayward was struck and killed by an RV at about 10 a.m. Thursday, in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Fairfield. Gonzales had been helping give the RV a jump-start when the RV ran him over, and the driver, Michael Wilbert, 52, of Fairfield, took off without helping Gonzales, according to police. Gonzales died at the scene. more ›

District Attorney George Gascon announced yesterday that in addition to filing manslaughter charges against the 23-year-old cyclist who struck and killed 67-year-old Dionette Cherney at Mission and Embarcadero on July 15, his office is also considering charges in three other recent deaths involving vehicles, including the August 19 Muni accident at 18th and Hartford, and the tragic July 14 accident at Octavia and Oak involving a UCSF shuttle that killed Dr. Kevin Mack. more ›

A five-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital late yesterday afternoon after being struck by a private shuttle near Third Street and Williams Avenue in the Bayview. The boy had been walking behind his mother and a sibling while crossing Third Street when the shuttle made a right turn and struck him. The shuttle was only carrying one passenger who was not injured. SFPD says the driver is cooperating with the investigation while they try to determine who was at fault. more ›

It goes to show you: Everybody smokes weed! A truck loaded with bags of kind bud crashed near the Oakridge Mall yesterday in South San Jose, and, not wanting to get nabbed by cops showing up at the scene, the driver fled. Meanwhile, bags of weed were spilling out of the truck and into the street near Blossom Hill Road and Playa Del Rey, and passing motorists quickly pulled over and snatched most of them up before the cops arrived. more ›

SFist came upon an odd scene at Duboce and Church this evening, in which one N Judah was stopped facing downtown with passengers stuck on it, another train was facing Ocean Beach on the same track, and a couple of other trains and a shuttle were sitting willy-nilly. "Another day, another commute," we said to ourselves. more ›

KTVU reported on this evening's broadcast (but not online) about a pretty sad accident that occurred this morning in the warehouse of San Quentin State prison. An inmate, who arrived at the prison last November for selling and possessing drugs, suffered life-threatening injuries after being caught between a truck driven by an outside vendor and the loading dock. more ›

The single fatality in yesterday's early morning collision at Octavia and Oak has been identified as 52-year-old UCSF professor Dr. Kevin Mack, a psychiatrist, who was on his way to work. Mack was ejected from the UCSF shuttle bus that was involved in the crash and landed underneath the big-rig vehicle transport. He was pronounced dead at the scene. more ›

A major accident at 6:30 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Octavia and Oak Streets has closed the area to both vehicle and Muni traffic, causing headaches for Haight/Nopa/Sunset residents trying to get to work. KTVU reports that at least one person was killed in the accident, which involved a big-rig vehicle transport carrying a load of cars, and a UCSF passenger van. Multiple pedestrians seem to have been involved as well. more ›

A Texas Rangers fan, leaning over a railing to catch a ball tossed to him from the outfield by a player, fell to from the stands in Arlington, Texas last night in front of his young son and a group of stunned witnesses in the bleachers, and later died. The man whom Texas newspapers have identified as 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone, was still conscious after the 20-foot fall, talking to paramedics as he was lifted onto a stretcher and asking them to check on his son, but he died a short while later at the hospital. more ›

83-year-old Maryann Slettehaugh was struck by a 17-year-old kid on a skateboard Tuesday afternoon as she crossed a street in downtown Capitola, just south of Santa Cruz. Police say the kid, who was not arrested and whose name has not been released, was going about 15 to 20 mph when he struck Slettehaugh in a crosswalk. As the Examiner reports, she was airlifted to a hospital, where she later died. more ›

KGO is reporting that a woman was struck by a cable car at the intersection of Broadway and Mason at around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning after she "darted" in front of it, according to witnesses. The cable car passengers said they tried to warn the woman to look out, as the operator was unable to stop the car in time. more ›

The Bay Citizen has created a handy new interactive map pinpointing all of the reported bike accidents that occurred in San Francisco during the past two years. Crashes reported to SFPD increased from 555 in 2009 to 602 in 2010. They note that many accidents don't get reported. So, help them out by adding yours to the map. more ›

An eighteen-month-old child is in life-threatening condition at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital after he was found in a fountain in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Hotel located at 5 Embarcadero Center on Wednesday afternoon. The child had entered the hotel with his mom, twin sister, and nanny to take pictures of the hotel when he disappeared. more ›

Multiple news outlets this morning are reporting on the Mercedes SUV that rolled into Samovar in the Castro yesterday, injuring both the driver and a woman sitting outside who was pinned to the wall by the car. ABC 7 has quotes from witnesses in the video above. SF Appeal reports that the woman behind the wheel was having a seizure at the time of the accident. UPDATE: Now KCBS is reporting that a total of five people were injured. more ›

The Examiner and SF Appeal reports that James Dougherty, who has served as Muni's chief safety officer for only a year, has been interviewing for other jobs and may be looking to bow out quickly from his position. more ›

We'd now like to point you to this story of a little girl from Los Gatos, Erica Rix, who was on the Today show this morning telling Matt Lauer about the hand she had to have sewn back on after a freak accident last year. It seems Erica was dangling a jump-rope out the window of her mom's SUV (naughty!) with a slip-knot around her wrist, and when the rope became tangled in the car's axle it ripped her little hand right off. Doctors were able to reattach it, and a year and a dozen surgeries later, Erica can wave, bend her wrist and move her thumb. more ›

Four months after a Muni agency report showed collisions between Muni buses and pedestrians "nearly doubled from the end of fiscal year 2006 to the same period in 2008," a new safety chief has been crowned. A 24-year transit-safety veteran, James Dougherty, has been announced as the chief safety officer and director of transportation safety. The former GM of safety and security of Charlotte, N.C.'s transit agency -- which, as it turns out, is not an intricate horse and buggy system -- will be in charge of "making sure bus and streetcar drivers follow the rules of the road and are properly disciplined when they cause accidents or drive unsafely." That is to say, Dougherty will be in charge of making sure Muni stays off Dan Noyes' radar. more ›