Six passengers were killed and another suffered major injuries Sunday evening when the driver of their vehicle ran off the road and hit a tree about 12 miles north of St. Helena. The driver, who survived, was arrested for suspected DUI.

As KPIX reports, Napa County Sheriff's deputies were the first to arrive at the scene. Six passengers were pronounced dead, and a seventh passenger was airlifted to a hospital, as KRON4 reports. According to the California Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 5:50 pm when the vehicle — a Toyota Sienna minivan — was traveling southbound on Pope Valley Road in an unincorporated portion of Napa County, per KRON4.

The driver was arrested at the hospital for suspected DUI causing injury or death, per KPIX. Pope Valley Road was closed most of the evening while authorities investigated the scene.

Napa Valley Register called the crash one of Napa County’s deadliest “in decades, if not longer.”

Update: The arrested driver has been identified as 53-year-old Norberto Celerino of Stockton. The victims have not yet been publicly identified, and nor have their relationships to Celerino.

Image: Google Street View

A 41-year-old Oakland man was killed on Sunday afternoon when a car drove onto the sidewalk where he was standing. The driver fled the scene on foot and police have yet to announce an arrest.

The tragic collision happened on the 3800 block of Park Boulevard around 5:15 p.m., according to Oakland police. As Bay City News reports, a Lexus GS headed northbound on Park drove off the roadway and onto the sidewalk, striking the man as well as two parked cars.

The man was taken to Highland Hospital, where he died.

The victim has not yet been publicly identified as his family was still being informed.

No description of the driver has been released, and police continue to investigate.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department Traffic Investigation Unit at (510) 777-8570.

Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

A man was killed in a freeway collision Tuesday night after attempting to flee from a traffic stop on 101 in Burlingame. He was suspected by CHP officers of being under the influence, and after running across multiple lanes of the freeway, he was struck by a passing San Mateo County sheriff's deputy's vehicle.

The deceased, identified only as a 26-year-old Hispanic male, was reportedly driving in the southbound lanes of 101 around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday when he was pulled over by CHP officers, as KPIX reports. (KRON4 is reporting that the man was already pulled over and his Honda Civic was “disabled” at the time CHP officers arrived.)

CHP Officer Art Montiel said in a statement that the officers were conducting a field sobriety test when the man “took off on them, went across the southbound lanes, and went into the center divider.”

The man then ran into the northbound lanes of 101 where he was struck by the deputy’s SUV. The deputy was not involved in the traffic stop, and he was reportedly not injured in the collision but was “a little shocked,” according to Montiel.

The subsequent investigation closed down the northbound lanes and several southbound lanes of 101 until around 5 a.m. on Wednesday.

CHP officers believe the deceased man was under the influence of drugs, but no further details were provided. He has not yet been publicly identified pending notifications to his next of kin.

“If you’re getting arrested just go with the program. Had he just gone along with the program he would be sitting in jail at this point," Montiel said, per KTVU. "But he decided to run and unfortunately it cost him his life."

Any witnesses to the collision are asked to please contact Officer Balvin at (650) 369-6261 with any additional information.

One person was arrested Monday morning after a dramatic hit-and-run crash on mid-Market in San Francisco in which, apparently, no one was hurt.

A pursuit by Tenderloin police began around 7:50 a.m., as NBC Bay Area reports, after officers on patrol spotted a vehicle driving erratically near the intersection of Larkin Street and Market. The officers tried to pull the car over, but it sped off, colliding first with an unoccupied parked vehicle nearby at Ninth and Market, and then colliding with a utility pole at the intersection of Van Ness and Market.

Scattered around the vehicle at the scene was what appeared to be some luggage, a black trash bag, and, oddly, a bottle of bleach.

"A hit and run suspect driving a stolen vehicle is in custody by Tenderloin Officers at Van Ness and Market," said the SFPD's Tenderloin Station on Twitter. "There is a second scene at 9th and Market.  Please avoid the area while we complete our investigation."

While the crash occurred a good block and a half away, KRON4 seized on the proximity to the Twitter building, where a pro-Trump, anti-Twitter-banning-him protest was scheduled to take place at 8 a.m. on Monday — though the protesters failed to show up.

There doesn't seem to be any connection between the two events.

The incident is under investigation, and, as always, anyone with information that could help police is asked to call the SFPD 24-hour tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.

A multi-vehicle crash on Divisadero Street Sunday evening sent five people to the hospital, one of them with life-threatening injuries.

The crash happened around 8 p.m. near the intersection of Divisadero and Hayes, as KPIX reports, and photos suggest the cars were on both sides of the median between Grove and Hayes. Three vehicles were involved.

The jaws of life were employed to extract victims from at least one of the vehicles, and multiple blocks of Divisadero were temporarily closed.

A horrific crash on northbound 101 after midnight Wednesday night claimed the lives of four people, including a taxi driver and two passengers.

The collision happened just before 12:29 a.m. Thursday at Paul Avenue, in the northbound lanes of the freeway, after multiple reports of a vehicle traveling the wrong way (south) in the northbound lanes. As KPIX reports, the Volkswagen was seen driving the wrong way near the Candlestick Point off-ramp and at the junction of 280, and Officer Bert Diaz tells the station, "It is very possible it [the Volkswagen] they could have been traveling [the wrong-way] for some time."

Per NBC Bay Area, reports of the wrong-way driver came in around 12:24 a.m., and the crash was not discovered until five minutes later.

The driver of the Volkswagen, described only as a woman in her 30s or 40s, was killed, as was the driver of a Ford Escape taxi, identified as a man in his 60s. Also killed were two passengers in the taxi, which was traveling northbound toward San Francisco — described only as a male and a female. All four people were pronounced dead at the scene. The passengers may have been coming from SFO, as NBC Bay Area notes the presence of luggage in the road following the collision.

As KRON 4 reports, the right two lanes of northbound 101 were closed Thursday morning for the investigation, and it was unclear how long they would remain so. Northbound traffic on the freeway was significant throughout the early morning hours.

Kelly Dean is home in the Central Valley and recovering from her injuries after a July crash on Taylor Street in the Tenderloin that took the life of her husband of three years.

Dean and her husband Ben had been in San Francisco for the weekend celebrating their wedding anniversary, after having been married in SF's City Hall three years earlier. They were walking up O'Farrell Street and getting ready to cross Taylor Street when a Tesla traveling at an apparently high rate of speed appeared to run a red light at the intersection. Both Kelly and Ben were struck by the car, but Ben died from his injuries.

Speaking exclusively to ABC 7, Kelly Dean says, "It's been really hard. How do you go on with day to day life when your world has basically ended?" She added, visibly choking up, "He was my best friend and I just don't have my friend anymore."

For legal reasons, Dean is not allowed to talk about the circumstances of the crash or her injuries.

Friends put together a GoFundMe campaign over the summer which raised $10,000 to aid in paying her bills and helping get her kids outfitted to return to school this fall. There is also a fundraising dinner this week in Clovis to help with Dean's expenses.

Together, Ben and Kelly were raising a blended family of four children. She tells ABC 7 that Ben was "legitimately one of the best people I've ever known." Before his tragic death he worked as a social worker in Fresno County, and Kelly works for the Department of Social Services there as well.

The lone driver believed by the SFPD to be responsible in the crash is 21-year-old Kelsey Mariah Cambridge of Vallejo. Cambridge was renting the Tesla via the app Getaround at the time of the collision. Authorities have said that Tesla's auto-pilot feature was not a factor in the crash.

The case was one of several this summer that have ignited calls for increased pedestrian-safety measures in and around the Tenderloin neighborhood.

Previously: Video Shows Tenderloin Crash; Pedestrians Hit Were Celebrating Anniversary

Construction garbage truck breaks loose And smashes into parked cars. Divisadero at Vallejo. @CBSSF pic.twitter.com/BVG94MI3PF

— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 31, 2017

An out-of-control dump truck hurtled down Divisadero Street Tuesday, smashing into nine cars and leaving three people with minor injuries.

The 26,000-pound truck started to roll down Divis near Vallejo Street at around 2:45 p.m., NBC Bay Area reports.

The truck, which had no driver, careened down the block, striking several cars "parked on the left side of the street facing downhill," KRON 4 reports.

The next intersection down, the truck struck three more occupied vehicles, including one driver by a driver for Uber. Occupants of two of those cars, "including the Uber driver, were taken to a hospital by ambulance for seemingly non-life-threatening injuries," according to KRON 4.

Its mad run was eventually stopped by a tree at the side of the road, ABC 7 reports.

NBC Bay Area says the truck belonged to Smart Demolition and Excavation, a subcontractor of Synergy housing. They'd been working at a construction site in the area "for a few weeks" before Tuesday's wreck.

Speaking with CBS 5, Smart owner Alex Galvan says that "his employees parked the truck with the emergency brake on, delivered the truck to the construction site and then left."

The truck was "also on special parking wedges to keep it from sliding," CBS 5 reports.

But apparently that wasn't enough, as construction workers say that as they began to load up the truck, it "began to move, rolled over the wedges, and then careened down the hill."

According to NBC, police say that truck's emergency brake failed, causing the vehicle to roll.

An area resident who was home at the time of the crash told KRON 4 that "two of her Mercedes SUVs were damaged" in the collision.

Cara Flaherty, who was in one of the vehicles the truck smashed into, tells NBC that the entire encounter "was terrifying."

A new study from a potentially self-interested source (a personal injury law firm) has found that SF's most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is Fifth and Market Street, at least when looking at the years 2010 to 2016.

As CBS 5 reports, the study comes from personal injury lawyers Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoeneberger who partnered with the data visualization firm 1Point21, and it looked at data for 5,846 pedestrian collisions in SF during that six-year period.

By far the most of those collisions, 210, happened at Fifth and Market Streets, with Seventh and Market coming in second with just over half as many, 120, and Third and Market clocked in around the same.

Generally speaking, it's not super safe to be a pedestrian on Market Street, with over a quarter of the total pedestrian collisions over that period happening on the stretch between Van Ness and Montgomery Street — though a couple years back we also heard that it's pretty deadly to be a cyclist or a pedestrian at Octavia and Market or South Van Ness and Mission as well.

Out of the 5,846 pedestrian collisions between 2010 and 2016, 130 of them ended in a death.

Related: South Van Ness/Mission, Octavia/Market Considered Among Worst Intersections In The Country

Three people were injured, one severely, after two drivers passing through Golden Gate Park lost control and slammed into some nearby trees.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, the crash occurred at 7:26 p.m. Wednesday, near where Crossover Drive meets with Park Presidio Boulevard. Tweets from the San Francisco Fire Department, however, place the crash closer to the entrance of the park, at Lincoln Way and 19th Avenue (which becomes Crossover as it enters the park). Both agencies have been contacted by SFist to clarify the wreck's location, and we'll update when we hear back.

According to the SFPD, the drivers of two cars "lost control and crashed into trees." The wreck was so severe, the SFFD says, that one of the victims of the wreck required "extensive extrication" from the damaged vehicle, an operation that wasn't concluded until 10 p.m.

Both drivers and one passenger were transported to the hospital, police say. Two of the victims, a 17-year-old male and a 24-year-old man, underwent injuries police say were not life-threatening. The subject of the SFFD extrication effort, a male of unknown age, suffered life-threatening injuries and was last reported as in critical condition.

As of publication time, an update on his condition or the circumstances of the crash were not available.

Wednesday night's crash was the second major wreck in Golden Gate Park that day: According to Hoodline, a multi-vehicle collision on Kezar Drive near JFK Drive occurred at around 8:20 a.m. Wednesday.

In that case, the crash "was a collision between two northbound cars and one southbound car that crossed into the oncoming lane" after which "several people were transported to a hospital." Additional details on that crash were not available as of Thursday morning.

Related: Driver Smashes Into Glen Park House, Displacing Two And Causing 'Funny Smell'

A man was left with life-threatening injuries on a busy SF street Thursday, after an incident police characterize as a traffic collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, the crash occurred at 7:12 a.m. Thursday, near the intersection of California Street and Van Ness Avenue.

In a written report, the SFPD says that the victim, who they describe as between 30 and 40 years of age, was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries as a result of the wreck.

Police say that a witness to the incident "saw the vehicle rolling and heard [the victim] screaming." The victim, police say, "was pinned under the vehicle."

The driver of the vehicle was described by police as "unknown." And unknown is also an apt description for any other information in the case — What were the circumstances of the crash? Was this a parked vehicle, perhaps? Or if both parties were in motion, did the driver remain at the scene? — as a Friday morning call to SFPD with follow-up questions was not returned as of publication time. Needless to say, when they do call back, this report will be updated.

Related: SFMTA Warns That Upcoming Time Change Could Kill Pedestrians

While the prognosis of a San Francisco police officer who was apparently intentionally struck by an SUV Wednesday remains unclear, a suspect has been arrested in connection with the incident. The collision between the car and the bicycle patrol officer happened around 12:20 p.m. on Turk Street near Franklin, and as we learned yesterday, the suspect is believed to be involved in a firearms case that the officer was investigating.

ABC 7 reports from a press conference Wednesday afternoon that multiple officers were on the scene of the incident and witnessed the collision.

The Examiner reports that a suspect was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday on the 500 block of Ellis Street, and the suspect has not yet been publicly identified.

It remains unclear if this is the same suspect who, after allegedly driving his Lexus SUV into the officer, fled about a mile away and abandoned the vehicle near Buena Vista Park.

We learn via the Chronicle that the SUV had a stolen license plate on it, and that the owner of that license plate noticed it missing from their car around noon yesterday, shortly before the hit-and-run occurred.

The officer who was struck is in the intensive care unit following emergency surgery on Wednesday, and Assistant Police Chief Toney Chaplin tells the Chronicle, "I think that speaks for itself." The officer's identity has not been released, but the department says he's been on the force for four years, working out of Tenderloin Station.

Per ABC 7, Chaplin further said, "This is a tough day for the Police Department. Everyone right now is having a tough time with this, so I ask the public to keep the officer in their prayers.”

The SFPD had a somewhat chaotic day Wednesday because there was a separate incident in which a patrol officer suffered minor injuries in Japantown. As Hoodline reports, and SFPD squad car in pursuit of another vehicle got into a head-on collision around noon at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and Webster Street. The officer involved in the crash appeared OK, and walked away.

Update: The injured officer has been identified as Elia Lewin-Tankel, as ABC 7 reports, and the suspect in the hit-and-run has been identified as 50-year-old Maurice A. Johnson.

Previously: SFPD Officer Hit By Car On Turk Street

A San Francisco police officer was struck and injured by a vehicle on Turk Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue Wednesday afternoon, and the extent of the officer's injuries are not yet known.

ABC 7 was reporting from the scene, and the officer, who was on bike patrol at the time, was transported to the hospital with extremely serious injuries. The Chronicle reports that his condition was critical as of 3 p.m. and he was headed into surgery.

The incident happened at 12:21 p.m., according to CBS 5, when a white Lexus SUV reportedly was responsible for the hit-and-run.

A large police presence then gathered around Buena Vista Park, and the SFPD put out a notice on Twitter for those in the area to shelter in place — as CBS 5 reports, this is due to the fact that the suspect vehicle was found parked near there, and the suspect reportedly then ran off, possibly toward Golden Gate Park.

SFPD spokesperson Sgt. Michael Andraychak gave a press conference this afternoon, and as the Chronicle reports he says the Tenderloin Station officer was "investigating a firearms case when the suspect in that case saw him approach and hit him with a tan or gold sport utility vehicle." The photo below, and CBS 5's earlier report, suggest that the vehicle is white, not gold, but this case is still unfolding.

Apparently, the suspect has not yet been apprehended.

This story has been updated throughout.

Four cyclists were struck by a vehicle while riding in unincorporated Marin County Saturday, and Marin CHP now say they have arrested a suspect who they believe is responsible.

The incident happened on Point Reyes-Petaluma Road just west of Hicks Valley Road just before noon Saturday, as ABC 7 reports, and the cyclists say that a dark blue Dodge Ram swerved into them intentionally.

All four were injured but one of the cyclists had to be flown to a hospital with severe injuries.

CHP officers say they were sent "numerous tips" that led them to a home in Novato where an arrest was made, and the photo above was posted, around midnight last night.

The Marin Independent Journal reports that the cyclists were participating in the Jensie Gran Fondo of Marin, a cycling event that benefits the Marin Bicycle Coalition.

The Marin CHP writes, "We are grateful to serve a community that looks out for one another. Often times in situations like this people think they see something but often dismiss it as an unlikely coincidence. When we ask for help we are asking you to disregard that feeling and let us know. Sometimes it's the smallest detail that leads us to a suspect."

Media: Officer Montiel will be at Sam's Chowder House parking lot. @SMCSheriff will allow you to enter closure. pic.twitter.com/XwweioS0Jv

— CHP RWC (@CHP_RedwoodCity) October 1, 2017

At least three people were killed in Bay Area traffic collisions this weekend, among them a pedestrian who was fatally struck by a California Highway Patrol officer and two drivers killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 880.

It was 4:15 a.m.Saturday morning when the first wreck occurred, on northbound 880 in Oakland, "just south of Broadway" ABC 7 reports.

According to KRON 4, a dark-colored sedan was seen "traveling the wrong way...without its headlights on."

Around five minutes later, that car "slammed head-on into another vehicle traveling in the right direction," KRON 4 reports.

Killed in the crash were the two drivers of the cars, identified by the Chron as 26-year-old Joel Hutchinson of Oakland and 23-year-old San Leandro resident Jennifer Huezo Ruiz. The CHP could not immediately say which victim drove which car (and was therefore responsible for the collision) "because of the wreckage at the scene."

There were no passengers in either car, the CHP says, and no other vehicles were involved in the crash. The investigation into the wreck is ongoing, police say, including a toxicology report to determine if drugs or alcohol played a part in the collision.

Then, at 8:24 p.m. Saturday night, a man leaving a wedding reception at Half Moon Bay's Sam’s Chowder House was fatally struck by a CHP officer as he crossed Highway 1, ABC 7 reports.

"Restaurant staff said the victim had just finished eating and was trying to leave when he was struck by the patrol car," CBS 5 reports. The victim has not been publicly identified, but was from Burlingame, they report.

According to ABC 7, the victim was attempting to cross Highway 1 between Capistrano Road and Coronado Street when he was struck. Redwood City CHP says via statement that "It appears the CHP vehicle was traveling northbound on SR-1 when it collided with a 74-year-old Filipino male pedestrian." He died at the scene.

CHP Officer Art Montiel tells NBC Bay Area "somehow [the CHP driver] collided with the pedestrian." The CHP officer behind the wheel during the collision has not been publicly identified.

"Our vehicles are equipped with cameras, so that’s something that we’re going to be looking at to see what happened," Montiel said.

According to patrons who spoke with NBC, when the restaurant's main parking lot fills up, guests often park across the street, then are left "dodging highway traffic on foot to get to their destination."

There are no streetlights in the area, they report, adding to the risks. "We're taking our lives into our own hands; it’s very hard to get across the street," one guest told NBC. "There's a constant line of traffic ever since we’ve arrived here."

"It’s kind of crazy with the traffic," another said. "It’s hard to cross streets, it’s hard to pull out, it’s hard to do anything. No parking anywhere."

Montiel tells NBC that "the officer as been temporarily pulled from patrol duty during the investigation, which is being handled by a Vallejo-based team." Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call CHP Officer Kurtis Waldschmidt at (650) 369-6261.