SF News Court Rules Oakland Police Can Be Sued for 2022 Bystander Death A federal appeals court ruled Oakland police can be held liable for the 2022 death of Lolo Soakai, a bystander killed after an unauthorized pursuit—challenging qualified immunity and allowing the family's lawsuit to proceed.
SF News Scooter Rider Possibly Killed Near Alamo Square; Pedestrian Killed on Polk Street Two collisions Tuesday night in San Francisco killed two people in separate incidents, one near Alamo Square and one in the Tenderloin.
SF News One San Franciscan's 'No Turn On Red' Petition Hopes To Help Bolster Pedestrian Safety After Lower Nob Hill resident Chandini Davis was almost swatted by an oncoming car (that failed to yield for her) earlier in the week, she's now keen on making her neighborhood crosswalks safer for pedestrians.
SF News [Update] Red-Light Runner Injures Eight Near City College A car running a red light Wednesday morning collided with multiple cars* in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood, near City College and Balboa Park. As the Chronicle reports, a female driver "ran a
SF News 80 Percent Of Walk Signal Buttons In SF Don't Do Anything To Change The Signal Confirming what you've surely always known deep down, the vast majority of those buttons you push at intersections do not do anything to shorten the amount of time you are going to wait
SF News Traffic Collisions Account For Half Of All Injuries Treated At SF General In what will likely come as a surprise to even the most jaded of San Francisco's pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, we learn via a Department of Public Heath report that half of all
SF News SFMTA Says Street Safety Improvements Are Actually Dangerous, Pulls Vigilante Crosswalk Posts Thank you @SFMTrA ! Westbound traffic visibly slower when crossing with kids today, and more walkers are using the intersection already. pic.twitter.com/DCULFK2qiV— Hum of the city (@humofthecity) October 13, 2016 Saying
SF News Tired Of Official Inaction, Safety Vigilantes Install Bike Lane Safety Posts A group of anonymous pedestrian and cycling safety advocates have upped their game in a challenge to city officials to do more, now, to make San Francisco streets safer. San Francisco Metropolitan Transformation
SF News Parking Over Pedestrians: Commitment To Vision Zero Questioned As Traffic Deaths Spike San Francisco's commitment to eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024, known as Vision Zero, is this year off to a tragic start. Adopted in 2014, the two-year-old initiative seeks to educate the public on
SF News Lombard Street Will Get A Pedestrian-Focused Makeover Lombard Street and not just the famous twisty part is in store for some changes designed to improve pedestrian safety. The SFMTA intended to vote today, reports the Chronicle, on whether or not
SF News Pedestrian Killed On 280 Near Monterey Boulevard A man is dead after he was struck by at least one vehicle while walking on a San Francisco stretch of freeway Wednesday evening. According to KRON4, at 10:54 p.m. Wednesday
SF News Someone's Blowing A Dart Gun At Golden Gate Bridge Pedestrians At least two people who were walking on the Golden Gate Bridge were struck by darts Friday, projectiles police say were sent from — I'm not kidding — a blow gun. According to KRON4, a
SF News Lombard Street Residents Finally Get Peace And Quiet In Form Of Massive Crowd Of Pedestrians After residents of the visitor-beloved stretch of Lombard known (dubiously) as the "world's crookedest" asked the SFMTA to consider keeping tourist traffic off their street, the MTA complied, launching a "pilot program" of
SF News Pedestrian Struck By J-Church Sunday Night In Glen Park An unidentified man in his 30s sustained serious injuries Sunday night when he was struck by an inbound J-Church train near San Jose and St. Mary's Avenues, in Glen Park. The man was
SF News Oh Crap: We've Been Using Crosswalk Timers Wrong All This Time Have you, like us, been using the ever-so-handy crosswalk countdown timers to gauge whether you have enough time to scramble across several lanes of traffic? As San Francisco Police Cmdr. Mikail Ali revealed
SF News SoMa: Driver Runs Red Light, Injures 6 Yikes. Another bout of pedestrian injuries at the hands of a driver went down on Sunday afternoon in SoMa. The incident happened around 4:30 at the intersection of Seventh and Harrison streets.
SF News Marina Car Theft Hit-Run Injures Pedestrian, Damages Building Authorities are looking for three suspects who allegedly injured two people with their car (possibly stolen) before hitting an apartment building in the Marina Tuesday night. "Officers were reportedly observing the men, who
SF News Octogenarian Jaywalker Pardoned For Being Struck By Vehicle An 86-year-old man received a jaywalking citation earlier this week after he was struck by a car on Geary Boulevard near St. Mary's Cathedral. The man sustained a fractured leg when the vehicle
SF News Driver Kills Pedestrian Along Van Ness Van Ness played host to its third pedestrian fatality of 2014 on Sunday. "The victim, whose identity was not released, was hit by a vehicle traveling north on Van Ness Avenue near Golden
SF News Traffic Snarled After Pedestrian Struck At Haight And Octavia [Updated] Around 4:30 p.m. Friday, traffic around Octavia Boulevard was severely backed up after a vehicle collision near the intersection with Haight Street. ABC7 is currently reporting a pedestrian was struck by
SF News Hit-Run Driver Kills Woman In Visitacion Valley Have you seen this white Dodge Durango? The driver is suspected of killing a killing a woman in Visitacion Valley on Thursday as crossed Bayshore Boulevard to reach a bus stop. CBS SF
SF News Pedestrian Struck By Tour Bus Sunday Morning Just after 8 a.m. Sunday, a man in his sixties was struck by a Gray Line tour bus while crossing Mission Street at Seventh Street in SoMa. According to one witness speaking
SF News Three Pedestrians, One Cyclist Struck By Drivers Since Monday Watch out, folks. A five-year-old boy and his babysitter were struck by a vehicle Monday evening at 5:15 p.m. at Fulton Street and 37th Avenue. Both were taken to the hospital
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Embarcadero Sunday Streets Cyclist-pedestrian harmony snapped at Embarcadero Sunday Streets by Bhautik Joshi.
SF News Woman Dies After Being Struck By Cement Truck In Pac Heights An 91-year-old woman crossing Fillmore Street on Thursday afternoon was struck and killed by a cement truck heading north past California. According to SFPD, the woman was taken to San Francisco General where
