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SFPD: Car Was Reported Stolen After Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Caught on Video

By Aaron Bialick | May 1, 2015 | 15 Comments

The car used in a pedestrian hit-and-run caught on video was reported stolen by its registered owner the morning after the crash, according to the SFPD. As we reported this week, video was posted online after a crash that occurred at Second and Howard Streets in the early morning hours of April 18. The driver was seen […]

Drivers Hit Two Seniors in Two Days at Castro and 19th Crosswalk

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 30, 2015 | 20 Comments

Two seniors were injured by drivers in a crosswalk at 19th and Castro Streets in separate crashes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Bryan Goebel, Streetsblog SF’s first editor, and his neighbor Hank Cancel happened upon the aftermath of the crashes. Both victims sustained minor injures, according to Goebel and Cancel. But they said close calls with […]

Video Emerges of Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Crash at Second and Howard

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 29, 2015 | 26 Comments

A disturbing video has emerged of a pedestrian hit-and-run crash at Second and Howard Streets in SoMa. Warning: It’s not for the faint-of-heart. The crash took place on Saturday, April 18, at 2:05 a.m., according to the timestamp of the dash camera video. In the video, the driver of a grey Infiniti SUV stops at a […]

SFPD Arrests Driver Who Hit Three Bike Commuters on the Wiggle

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 28, 2015 | 10 Comments

The SFPD has arrested 25-year-old Bianca Lopez of Fremont for hitting three people on bikes at Scott and Fell Streets on the Wiggle on April 6. According to an SFPD press release, Lopez has been charged with felony hit and run causing injury, misdemeanor hit and run involving property damage, and driving without a license. Her bail was set […]

Belmont Police Blame Cyclist for Getting in the Way of Driver’s Left Turn

By Andrew Boone | Apr 23, 2015 | 34 Comments

When a 90-year-old driver turned left into the path of a man bicycling on Ralston Avenue, the Belmont Police Department blamed the victim for talking on a cell phone and not wearing a helmet. The department also warned people on bikes against “carrying packages and bags” in its press release. None of those behaviors are illegal, nor […]

Abisai May Dzul, 24, Victim of the “Alemany Maze” Highway Tangle

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 22, 2015 | 16 Comments

Abisai May Dzul, 24, was killed while walking on an off-ramp in the “Alemany Maze,” the forbidding tangle of freeway ramps where Highways 101 and 280 intersect in the southeast city. The crash occurred on Sunday at about 9 p.m., according to media reports. Walking up the Highway 101 off-ramp at Alemany Boulevard, Dzul “had been struck […]

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