A man was struck and killed early on Monday morning on Mission Street near Cortland Avenue, by a driver who fled the scene, police confirmed.
The driver of the vehicle has not been arrested, said public information Officer Robert Rueca.
Police responded to the 3400 block of Mission Street at 3:41 a.m. on Monday morning and discovered an injured man, said Rueca. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The man’s identity has not yet been confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
San Francisco recently passed its 10-year mark in its “Vision Zero” goal, during which the city aimed but failed to eliminate traffic fatalities, a failure that experts attribute to a lack of focused, coherent effort.
Much of Mission Street, including the area where the crash occurred, is in the city’s “high-injury network,” where the majority of crashes causing injuries and deaths take place. Monday’s victim is the 10th pedestrian killed in the city so far this year, and brings the city’s total traffic fatalities so far this year to 15, compared to 17 pedestrian deaths last year.
“The person killed at Mission and Cortland is not just a number, but a human life lost. Every life lost on San Francisco streets matters,” Walk SF’s director, Jodie Medeiros, said in a statement. “We can’t let these tragedies go by unnoticed. The people of San Francisco need to know what’s happening, so they demand change.”
San Francisco is one of six cities that will launch speed cameras in 2025 as part of a state pilot program.
This is a breaking story and may be updated as more information becomes available. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD. You may remain anonymous.
So there are not enough traffic cams to work out the plate of the offending vehicle?
a machine that records a speeding vehicle does not stop said vehicle from killing pedestrians.
another solution that doesn’t address the fundamental flaw of human behavior.
and good ‘ole WalkSF Jodie continues to collect a paycheck despite the lack of a vision or solution. why does ML parrot this pathetic org when it offers nothing but condolences or propaganda? it’s time this newspaper stops giving them and our city a pass.
we haven’t accomplish a single change near west portal after an entire family was extinguished yet muni painted transit-only lanes on san jose avenue for trains that run every 20 minutes. what a croc!
how can we expect to reduce pedestrian deaths using machines programmed by the same failed humans that prioritize convenience and expediency and ignore safety ?
Vision Zero consists of 3 Es: engineering, education and enforcement. In San Francisco, we’ve only really begun working on the first one. Motorist education and law enforcement remain outstanding.
Without enforcement, motorists continue to ignore the law and pedestrians are killed. Automated speed enforcement cameras, something local pedestrian advocacy organizations supported, will help change this.
“The person killed at Mission and Cortland is not just a number, but a human life lost. Every life lost on San Francisco streets matters,” Walk SF’s director, Jodie Medeiros, said in a statement. “We can’t let these tragedies go by unnoticed. The people of San Francisco need to know what’s happening, so they demand change.”
NONE of this platitude crap explains why these non-profits (with huge executive salaries for busybodies to repeat themselves ad nauseam) continue to push ineffective pro-bicycle crap on SF small businesses under the pretense of safety – with ZERO ACTUAL SAFETY IMPROVEMENT.
Case in point, the recent death at the bus stop in West Portal. NO, NON-PROFIT PARASITES, A BIKE LANE DOES NOT STOP A DRUNK / IMPAIRED / ELDERLY DRIVER FROM MAKING A FATAL ERROR. The backlash against these non-profits is only beginning as regular SF residents realize these GRIFTERS have nothing to show for the millions and millions they wasted, as SF small businesses and neighborhoods suffer for years due to the endless busybody Bicycle Coalition hucksters pushing ineffective greenwashed crap agendas with OUR TAX DOLLARS.
Fire Breed, fire Tumlin, start over with engineers – not politically connected and well-heeled carpetbagging busybodies with their “make SF Paris” BS!
“Motorist education”. This needs to go two ways. There is no shortage of SFMTA changes that aggravate drivers and therefore are counterproductive. Smooth traffic = safe traffic.
Not to say they didn’t need to work on West Portal, but, speaking of propaganda… Re: West Portal. The driver of the Mercedes crossover veering out of lane could have happened anywhere. You can check for yourself, and the official report later (obviously) found that the street design did not contribute to the accident in question. SFMTA of course immediately tried to leverage this tragedy. It was such an obvious rouse, it destroyed any (residual) goodwill towards SFMTA and galvanized opposition against changing anything. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
No enforcement of traffic laws for “whatever” reasons lead people to think they can drive as they dam well please with almost Zero prosecution, that is the true meaning of “Vision Zero”. As for WalkSF another well funded SF non profit with non results.
Walk S.F. helped make automated speed enforcement cameras possible in our city. Once such cameras are in use, as of next year I believe, deadly speeding should finally start to decrease.
Bullsh!t. All it does is waste money. Motorists going 5mph over the limit is not killing anyone in SF – it’s based on BS studies that have nothing to do with the reality on SF streets whatsoever.
Get off your phone when you are driving. You all do it with impunity because the city doesn’t care. Also, could at least one of you drivers use a turn signal? It is the law.
There’s no police enforcement – 10 years ago there were 1000% more tickets being written, and that was down from a decade before that. What’s the common factor?
London Breed and her busybody activist non-profit agenda of spreading tax dollars around to appease connected city-family carpetbagging instead of traffic safety.
The cameras are just an excuse to drum up metrics that are fungible and exploited politically as “improvement” – see, we wrote x-hundreds of tickets, so surely the streets “must be safer” right? It’s a grift.
FIRE GRIFTER BREED. Hire competent police. Period.