While it was initially believed that the driver of a pickup truck was the suspect who fatally struck a woman at Mission and South Van Ness in SF Monday, police later arrested the driver of a Mercedes who allegedly fled the scene with others in the car, including a child in a car seat.

As SFist reported previously, a woman was fatally struck around 3:30 pm Monday near South Van Ness Avenue and Mission Street and pronounced dead at the scene. Police initially stopped the driver of a F-250 or F-350 pickup truck who cooperated with police.

According to KGO’s JR Stone, police later began pursuing the driver of a black Mercedes whom they pulled over a mile-and-a-half from the scene. Other people were reportedly in the car, including a baby in the backseat, along with some Chanel bags.

Based on a Citizen report, police detained the driver at 600 Potrero Avenue.

Update: As the Chronicle reports, the suspect driver of the Mercedes has been arrested and identified as 30-year-old Valentino Cash Amil of San Francisco. He has been booked on charges of homicide and felony vehicle hit and run with injury.

Surveillance video from a nearby business, which was shown off-camera to KGO, first shows the victim on the hood of a moving car that matches the description of the Mercedes. The woman can then reportedly be seen falling into the street as the car allegedly runs her over.

Police haven’t released any details on the investigation. Bystander Richard Conway Jr. pointed out to KGO that the area where the woman was killed does not feature crosswalks, and is very dangerous.

Previously: Man, Possibly Homeless, Struck and Killed By Pickup Truck at South Van Ness and Mission

Image: Citizen app

This post has been corrected to show the correct gender of the victim, who has been identified by friends as 74-year-old Dannielle Spillman.

Mercedes SLK300 just crashed into Van Ness Tesla Store. pic.twitter.com/3D7n2PQ3V2

— Pavel Uvarov (@puvar) September 4, 2017

It was fancy car v fancy car on Van Ness Avenue Monday afternoon, when the driver of a sliver Mercedes smashed into the front of a San Francisco Tesla dealership.

CBS 5 reports that the crash occurred Monday at the intersection of Van Ness and O'Farrell Street.

According to an SFMTA spokesperson who talked to the Chron, a little before 2 p.m. the driver of the Mercedes "apparently tried to change lanes, hit the curb then panicked and hit the gas...The driver reportedly hit a tree, a mailbox, a Muni sign and a traffic control box before running into the dealership."

The driver, who the Chron says was injured in the crash, "smashed through the large plate glass window, sending debris and a huge piece of glass onto the sidewalk," CBS 5 reports.

The damage to the traffic control box knocked out the traffic lights at the intersection, the Chron reports, but though "Red flashing lights were installed within 15 minutes...cars crossing the intersection still frequently stopped and honked at each other."

If those cars were really honking at one another without driver intervention, as that sentence suggests, Elon Musk is right: The AI rebellion has truly begun, and this was merely an opening salvo in the war between the cars. Pick your side now, weak and fleshy humans!

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A mugger in a Mercedes robbed at least two victims Monday during an evening shakedown in the Mission.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, the male victims (aged 36 and 30) were walking on 23rd Street near Folsom Street at 10:30 p.m. when the crime occurred.

Two suspects in their 20s approached the men on foot, police say, Suddenly, one of the suspects pulled out a gun, and demanded their property.

The victims handed over their cell phones, wallets, a backpack, and $40, police say.

The suspects then "jumped into a white Mercedes and fled," heading south on Folsom, police say. (It's worth noting that a rash of Noe Valley-area crimes were ascribed to suspects in a white Mercedes back in 2015. According to Noe Valley SF, those suspects were not ever arrested.) They remain at large, and no arrests have been made in the case.

An early morning collision between a driver and a pedestrian sent the latter to the hospital — and the former fleeing from the San Francisco intersection where the crash occurred.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, it was 1:30 a.m. when a 58-year-old man attempted to cross at the intersection of Sutter and Larkin Streets.

That's when, police say, the driver of a black Mercedes struck the victim, leaving him with "head injuries and pain to nose and mouth."

That intersection, as you can see above, is regulated by a four-way traffic signal. Citing the ongoing investigation, police did not provide information on which party was crossing on the signal, or if the motorist was turning when they struck the victim.

According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi, "the most important thing a driver can do" following a crash is "remain on the scene...by failing to do that, you turn a collision into a hit-and-run." And that's what happened here, as police say that the driver in this case fled the scene, and remains at large as of publication time.

The victim, police say, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash. He was transported to San Francsico General Hospital, where he remains as of Wednesday morning.