At 10:25 a.m., a black Nissan was upended in a dramatic crash at the intersection of 16th and Mission streets.
“I was trying to avoid an accident,” said 31-year-old Jose Benitez, the driver of the black Nissan. “And that caused me to have an accident.”
According to an officer at the scene, the crash occurred when a Fiat was attempting to turn left onto Hoff Street. The driver of a truck then tried to go around the Fiat on the right. Benitez, who was behind the truck, drove past it on the left, and rammed into the stationary Fiat.
No one appears to have been seriously injured. Onlookers said that Benitez complained of pain in the shoulder when he was pulled out the passenger side of his car, but he later said that he was “fine.”
According to TransBASE data, there have been at least twelve crashes at the 16th and Mission intersection since 2018.
The crash briefly held up two Muni buses that got stuck on 16th Street between Valencia and Mission streets. The 22-Fillmore and 55-Dogpatch lines were rerouted around the flipped Nissan, but have since resumed normal operations.
Benitez was traveling from Hunters Point to his construction job in the Mission when he crashed his car. After being freed from the wreckage and talking with police, Benitez picked up his bag of tools and said he was heading to work.
Jose is my closest friend and he is hurting more today now that the shock wore off. So glad it wasn’t worse.
a few weeks ago, i was riding in the gutter on 16th & A vehicle making a right turn pushed me onto the sidewalk.
bunch of incompetents
how fast do you have to be going to rear-end a stationary fiat and flip your car? Seems like some seriously aggressive and dangerous driving – par for the course in this town.
At 16th & Misson?! A car traveling fast enough to overturn? You’d have to be going at least 40mph, and the driver wasn’t charged? The complete lack of assigning responsibility in vehiclular crashes is the reason we have so many.