SF News Willie Brown Turns On The San Francisco Chronicle Was it just last week that San Francisco's former mayor turned newspaper columnist, Willie Brown, said our "increasingly unsafe" (for pedestrians and cyclists; drivers seem to be doing OK) streets are our own
SF News 29-Year-Old Man Pleads Not Guilty In Pre-New Year Car Chase The guy arrested in that December 30 high-speed chase that led from Potrero Hill to the Upper Haight has pleaded not guilty to charges of felony evading police, assault with a deadly weapon,
SF News Hit-and-Run Kills 55-Year-Old Man at Masonic and Turk A hit-and-run incident claimed the life of a 55-year-old man at Masonic and Turk last night. The Chronicle reports: "The series of crashes began at about 2:30 a.m. when the suspect,
SF News Witnesses Sought After Lower Haight Cycling Hit and Run In bike safety news: a cyclist in the Lower Haight was the victim of car-on-bike hit and run incident this past weekend. The rider was allegedly cut off by and then collided with
SF News Mid-Market Hit and Run Kills Man On Saturday night, a 51-year-old man was found lying in the street near Eighth and Market after an apparent hit-and-run incident. The man was struck a little before 9:30 p.m. The
SF News Hit-&-Run Melee In Mission District A little after noon today, an alleged case of road rage happened in the city's historic and so very richly-textured Mission District. A reader who asked to remain anonymous told us what went
SF News Woman Killed After Prius Hit And Run Sad news. A 70-year-old woman was stuck and killed by a Priu in the Haight on Wednesday. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), the "woman had been crossing the street at Waller and
SF News Man Acquitted In Hit & Run of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> Fan Tamara Barak Aparton, our favorite civil servant scribe, cut another shiny gem for us today. See, after a three-day trial, 33-year-old Jose Sanchez, accused of hitting a Mission District pedestrian with his minivan
SF News Man Accused of Killing Cyclist Nils Linke Pleads Not Guilty Joshua Calder, the driver of the car that hit and killed 21-year-old Nils Linke, pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, Caldre is accused of hitting and killing Linke near
SF News Oakland Man Charged In S.F. Bicyclist Hit & Run Death Today, prosecutors charged Oakland resident Joshua Calder, 36, with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after an alleged hit-and-run crash on Friday night. He is accused of killing 21-year-old Nils Linke at Masonic and Turk.
SF News Another German Tourist Killed Last Week Just a few days after German tourist Mechthild Schroeer was killed by stray gunfire near Union Square, 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was also a tourist from Germany, was struck and killed on his
SF News Bike Rampage Suspect Has Three First Names, Two Rhyme The name of the suspect who was arrested for mowing down four cyclists in the Mission on Wednesday night has been released: David Mark Clark. As periqueblend points out, the suspect has three
SF News BREAKING: Arrest Made in S.F. Hit and Run Rampage Police made an arrest today in the hit and run attacks on four cyclists in four parts of the city. Police Chief Gascon will hold a press conference at 4:30 pm. with
SF News Newsom Condemns Last Night's Hit and Run Rampage Mayor Gavin Newsom expressed sadness and concern for those injured in last night's hit and run rampage that saw four cyclists injured in the Mission and Potrero Hill districts. "I’m proud that
SF News Driver Targets Cyclists During Hit and Run Rampage Police say that a driver targeting cyclists injured four people in the Mission and Potrero districts on Wednesday night. A male driver allegedly went after cyclists in four different locations in San Francisco:
SF News Man Killed In Possible Hayes Valley Hit & Run An early morning accident (?) rattled Hayes Valley after a hit and run killed "an African American man of 40 years of age" on Octavia between Market and Haight. AP (via CBS 5) notes:
SF News Crazed Teen Driver Crashes Car 3 Times Before Getting Arrested An unlicensed 19-year-old driver was arrested for felony hit and run yesterday after trying to flee from cops after being pulled over in the Oceanview neighborhood. Within a minute the kid had driven
SF News Driver Hits Cyclist, Shrugs It Off, Then Takes Off DNA Lounge owner and LiveJournaler jwz went riding the other day with his pal netik on Harrison Street. Things did not go well. He explains: Monday around 6pm, netik and I were biking
SF News (UPDATED) Redwood City Cyclist Killed In Hit-And-Run A woman riding her bike this morning was stuck and killed by a dump truck in Redwood City. According to KTVU, the accident, reported at "7:51 a.m. at the intersection of
SF News Update on Tandem Bike Hit and Run Streetsblog SF reported today that SFPD has issued a rare press release for the hit and run involving cyclist Andrew Bennett and his 4-year-old son while riding a bike with a tandem extension,
SF News Hit and Run: 18th & Valencia Yesterday morning, PT Cruiser allegedly plowed through a red light at 18th and Valencia streets, striking an "adult riding a grey steel frame bicycle which had a blue childrens add on tandem bike
SF News Two Drivers Sought in Deadly Richmond Hit and Run Good grief, what is going on in the city of Richmond? First, some pigs gang rape a woman because she had a rainbow flag stick affixed to the back of her car. Then,
SF News 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
SF News Bad Driver Ohmeed Popal Pleads Not Guilty The man suspected of mowing people down during a hit-and-run spree in August 2006 , Omeed Aziz Popal, 30, pleaded not guilty today in San Francisco Superior Court. Really. For those of you who
SF News SFist Blotter -- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded
