A vehicle crashed into a parked city vehicle on South Van Ness Avenue, between 16th and 17th streets, on Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Police Department said.
Police received a series of phone calls shortly before 2 p.m. about a red car crashing into a city vehicle and flipping over before landing on the pavement, said SFPD spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak.
It is unknown at this time whether there were any injuries.
Police closed off the block for an hour to produce a police report.
We will update this story as we get more information.
These are all great comments. I live on South Van Ness and have been trying to tackle this issue for years with no luck. The speed limit on all of South Van Ness is 25 MPH, but there are few signs. The vast majority of vehicles travel above the speed limit. Although well aware of the issue, the SFMTA and SFPD have done very little, basically nothing, to solve the problem. We need a critical mass of support to solve the issue. The 3 best people for everyone to contact are…
Manito Velasco
Transportation Engineer
SFMTA – Division of Sustainable Streets
1 South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Manito.Velasco@sfmta.com
(415) 701-4447
(415) 701-4737
Bridget Smith, Manager
Livable Streets Subdivision
SFMTA | Municipal Transportation Agency
Sustainable Streets Division
1 South Van Ness, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-701-4491
fax 701-4343
bridget.smith@sfmta.com
http://www.sfmta.com/livablestreets
Captain Robert Moser
SFPD – Mission Station
630 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-558-5455
Bob.Moser@sfgov.org
hosts community meeting last Tues, of month 6 PM at Mission Station
Mark, and anyone else interested, the Central Mission Neighborhood Organization is in touch with many of these agencies, as well as the supervisor’s office. We haven’t looked at traffic on SVN specifically, but if you would like to join forces shoot me an email at Cappand20@gmail.com
On Monday 1/14 we’re going to be participating in a multi-agency neighborhood walkthrough, and I think traffic issues on SVN would be an appropriate thing to have on the agenda. Email me for more info.
This could work on other streets in the neighborhood to speed things up but probably not for Van Ness.
http://richmondsfblog.com/2013/01/08/neighborhoods-first-traffic-circle-installed-at-23rd-anza/
Roundabouts
The sensible thing for SFMTA to do is develop a master plan to bring MUNI busses to South Van Ness Avenue. This would slow down traffic and decrease congestion elsewhere – like Mission Street. It may mean a significant modification to Caesar Chavez to facilitate the busses transitioning over. Let’s stop the madness on South Van Ness shall we?
That is not sensible. The buses belong on Mission St. MUNI is already using SVN as a shortcut in epic proportions. They are noisy, fast and inappropriate for this street.
They also ran over a pedestrian on SVN not long ago.
Their noise can be absorbed easier ob Mission St.
Is there even a speed limit on South Van Ness?! Do these peole causing so much traffic problems even driver’s license? My husband & I have had so many close calls we lost count. More traffic police & red light cameras please. It’s a mess out there.
There was a rollover accident on this block a couple of months back
Is this the one you are referring to: http://missionlocal.org/2012/07/multi-vehicle-crash-on-16th-and-south-van-ness/ ?
I’d like to know as I am working on a story about documented traffic problems on South Van Ness and a possible solution. If you have something to add please don’t hesitate to email me at rigoberh@gmail.com.
thanks!
There was also the recent drunk driving/police chase incident that toppled the stoplight at 17th and South Van Ness a couple months ago.
Yes, that is the one. There have been many more along the entire corridor. The lights need to be slowed and some of them replaced with stop signs.
I have seen the police stop vehicles many more times for red lights and speeding I assume but they are powerless against the blatant reckless driving of so many.
This is the second rollover on this same block in the past few months.
With all due respect SFMTA, please slow this street down. Your policies have done so for every street on the area. What are you waiting for? It os a fact that this street is dangerous. We are not talking about small accidents..there have been many major accidents ob this street for the past year.
Does anyone think this is getting out of hand?