A white, four-door sedan drove off the Sanchez Street Stairs at 19th Street on Saturday, flipped over in mid-air, and landed on its roof on the sidewalk below, crushing several trees, according to home surveillance footage posted online.
The crash occurred Saturday at 7:18 p.m., according to the San Francisco Fire Department. No injuries were reported, and all of the occupants of the car fled the scene, the fire department said. The crashed car was towed away.
In the video, the car flies off the top of the Sanchez mini-park, a block from Dolores Park, hitting several trees and felling one on 19th Street. A pedestrian quickly rushes to the crashed car, forcing a door open for the car’s occupants to exit and yelling for someone to call 911.
Three people exit the crashed car. Two of the occupants, after being released, dash up the stairs and away from the car; one seems to yell, “I’m sorry, I love you, we gotta go.”
One occupant stays to pull a fourth and then a fifth person from the car; someone continues saying, “We gotta go.” The final three occupants leave just as a fire engine arrives on scene, some three minutes after the crash.
Several passers-by aid the occupants; others stop to film the scene.
A separate video shows the car crashing into the fence where Sanchez Street dead-ends into the park at high speed, before flying off the top of the staircase.
The San Francisco Police Department said in a statement that none of the occupants had yet been located, and that the incident remains an open investigation.
Ok, I’m gonna go out on a limb here….that car was probably stolen
That was wild. Stolen car perhaps?
No way they were wearing seatbelts. Only reasons they aren’t all dead is 1. the car was a Crown Vic, and 2. the tree that cushioned the fall.
Smash and grabbers? Look at all the stuff they pull out of the car. Woah.
Impressive response time by SFFD!
First, we bombed the hill. Then we bomb the stairs. What shall we bomb next?
The car was white!
What a crew! More winners heading to SF for shopping sprees. New clothes, cars, drugs galore.
San Francisco permissiveness rooted in stubborn ideological beliefs keeps paying dividends.
But wait, we are all told San Francisco values are the only hope for a better world! Are you saying it’s all a big lie?
who says ‘San Francisco values are the only hope for a better world’?
I have literally never heard anything like this.
I have heard that SF is:
1. a really nice place to live, and
2. suffering a growing homeless crisis b/c #1 is making RE super expensive.
Who says this? ‘Cuz Im calling you out for lying.
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Wow, Mr. Hill, you can fit anything into your limited view.