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Taxi Driver Kills High School Senior Seana Canavan at Pine and Larkin

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 20, 2015 | 4 Comments

Seana Canavan, who would have turned 18 today, was killed by a taxi driver at Pine and Larkin Streets Saturday night at 10:28 p.m., the SF Chronicle reported. Canavan was a senior at International High School in Hayes Valley. Sammy Walker, who knew Canavan since they were five, told the Chronicle, “Seana wasn’t just unique because of […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested After Injuring Cyclist at Cesar Chavez & Valencia

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 17, 2015 | 3 Comments

The SFPD arrested a driver who hit a man on a bike and fled at Cesar Chavez and Valencia Streets yesterday at around 6:44 p.m. The victim is reportedly in stable condition and suffered a shoulder injury. SFPD spokesperson Carlos Manfredi said the female driver fled, reported the crash about an hour later Mission Station, and […]

SFPD Finds Owner of Car in Wiggle Hit-and-Run That Injured 3 Cyclists

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 6, 2015 | 14 Comments

SFPD has located the owner of the Jeep Cherokee that was driven in a hit-and-run crash that injured three bike commuters on the Wiggle late Thursday afternoon, though police don’t believe the owner was driving at the time. At around 5:30 p.m., the driver, described by witnesses as a Hispanic woman, plowed through three people on bikes […]

SFPD Explains: Driver Won’t Be Charged for Killing Cyclist at 14th & Folsom

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2015 | 24 Comments

Three witnesses told SFPD investigators that Charles Vinson, 66, biked through a red light when he was killed by a driver at 14th and Folsom Streets on March 2, according to police officials. An SFPD spokesperson told Streetsblog earlier this week that Vinson had been found at fault, contrary to an initial witness cited in the press […]

SFPD Sends 86-Year-Old Driver On Her Way After She Injures Mom and Child

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2015 | 21 Comments

An 86-year-old driver hit a 45-year-old mother and her 5-year-old daughter in a crosswalk yesterday at 20th Avenue and Buckingham Way, outside the Stonestown Galleria mall. According to KTVU, the driver was taken away in an ambulance “for an undisclosed ailment” but was soon returned to her SUV to drive home. The police said “they […]

Driver Kills Cyclist Charles Vinson, 66, at 14th and Folsom

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 3, 2015 | 86 Comments

Update: SFPD issued a response below. Charles Vinson, 66, was struck by a driver at 14th and Folsom Streets in the Mission yesterday and died from his injuries today. A witness saw the driver of a Honda Civic “blow through a red light and strike the bicyclist as the bicyclist waited for the light to turn green,” according to the […]

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