A mother and child are injured after the driver of an SUV ran a red light on Geary Boulevard and slammed into the pair as they cycled across the intersection.
According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan, police were called to the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 7th Avenue at 3:43 Friday afternoon, on reports that a driver had struck a cyclist.
A witness who spoke to the Richmond SF blog said he was on Geary Boulevard traveling west behind the SUV driver, and watched the driver blow through the red light at 7th Avenue.
That's where the light-running driver struck a mother and her toddler daughter, who cycling south on 7th Avenue.
"The mother suffered a broken leg and the toddler sustained bumps and bruises," Gatpandan says, and were both transported to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment. They're both expected to recover.
Richmond SF blog reports that "the driver of the SUV did stop at the scene of the accident and cooperate with police." According to the Chron, "it is unknown if he or she was cited or arrested."
Investigation of the accident closed Geary until around 5, allowing the Richmond SFPD station this moment of levity:
All lanes now open Geary at 7th Ave. Pls be patient while traffic improves from its current state of "awful" to its normal state of "bad"
— SFPD RichmondStation (@SFPDRichmond) February 21, 2015
But they're all business when it comes to getting to the bottom of this case. Gatpandan asks that anyone who witnessed this incident or has information for the investigation call SFPD's Anonymous Tip Line at 415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 with SFPD at the beginning of the message.