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Mom and Toddler on Bike Injured By SUV Driver at Geary and 7th

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 23, 2015 | 43 Comments

An SUV driver reportedly ran a red light and crashed into a mother and her toddler on a bike at Geary Boulevard and 7th Avenue in the Inner Richmond at about 4 p.m. on Friday. The driver was reportedy headed westbound on Geary as the mother cycled southbound on 7th. “People tried to honk at […]

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Eyes on the Street: Another Driver Jumps the Curb in the Tenderloin

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 20, 2015 | 8 Comments

No sidewalk is safe. Another driver jumped the curb and crashed into a building at Post and Taylor Streets near Union Square on Sunday. Cheryl Brinkman, who sits on the SFMTA Board of Directors, captured this photo of the aftermath and remarked: “I’ve been keeping a mental list of ‘Things we can’t trust car drivers […]

Second Sleeping Man Killed by a Driver at the Same Driveway

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 22, 2014 | 41 Comments

For the second time in two years, a homeless man was run over and killed by a driver exiting the same garage exit on Third near Bryant Street in SoMa. The SF Chronicle reports: Randy Jacobs, 53, fell asleep Friday night in the driveway of a private apartment garage at Third and South Park streets, […]

Safe Streets Advocates: “Enough is Enough” — Time to End Traffic Violence

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 10, 2014 | 9 Comments

The recent spate of drivers killing or maiming pedestrians has both City Hall leaders and SF agencies running out of excuses for their snail’s-pace implementation of measures that would make city streets safer. At a rally on Friday, a coalition of safe streets advocates chanted, “Enough is enough.” The 28 people killed in crashes on […]

Witness: Hit-and-Run Driver Fled With Victim in Sunroof, Tried to Toss Booze

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 7, 2014 | 17 Comments

A drunk driver who hit a man crossing the street at Valencia Street and Duboce Avenue Sunday continued to drive with the victim hanging head-first inside the sunroof, according to a witness who saw the vehicle stop outside his home on Market at Guerrero Streets. After continuing for three blocks past the scene of the […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2014 | 109 Comments

SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]

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