A woman appears to have escaped serious injury after being hit by a car on Shotwell and 21st streets at approximately 1 p.m. on Tuesday.
The victim, a 21-year-old woman, was crossing Shotwell Street when another woman driving a gray Honda Accord hit her. The motorist was driving along 21st Street, made a wide U-turn at Shotwell, accelerated and ran into the victim, according to another driver who witnessed the incident and called the police.
Three eyewitnesses separately told Mission Local that the driver intentionally rammed the pedestrian.
Shotwell St.
The motorist was
traveling East on
21st St. when she
made a U-turn at
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The victim was
crossing Shotwell St.,
heading East, when
the car struck her.
The motorist made
another U-turn on
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The motorist was
traveling East on
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The motorist made
another U-turn on
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escaping on 21st St.
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The victim was
crossing Shotwell St.,
heading East, when
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Map by Kelly Waldron.
Samuel, an onlooker who was sitting by the intersection, witnessed the incident. “For me, that’s attempted murder,” he said. After she was hit, the victim threw her drink at the car and banged on it, he added.
The driver then sped north on Shotwell Street, but had to make a U-turn before the bollards; the street is closed to vehicular traffic to dissuade prostitution. “She was trying to flee,” said another passerby. The driver then escaped via 21st Street.
The victim’s sister, who later came to the scene, said that both the victim and the motorist knew each other from John O’Connell High School, and had previously had a legal dispute.
According to a police officer at the scene, the victim does not wish to press charges against the driver. However, the incident was potentially captured on new security cameras recently installed at the intersection, and the police may be able to make a case, regardless.
The San Francisco Police Department is investigating the incident.
Anyone with information is asked to contact SFPD at 415-575-4444 or Text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
People need to be taught that cars are deadly weapons, so lock up this driver for attempted murder.
And permanently suspend her license, please.
People in prison for attempted murder aren’t allowed to drive, because they’re in prison for attempted murder.
(And predictably the Bicycle Groupies attempt to profit from attempted murder!)
Cars are not deadly weapons unless used as that. The vast majority of drivers never kill anyone, intentionally or otherwise. Hit the road with us-vs-them pedestrianism, the vast, wide world out there isn’t trying to kill all spandex wearing pseudo-victims, that’s called paranoia.
Would love for ML to do a follow-up article on this: since there is video, and we know who the driver is, will SFPD follow up? If not, why not? Under what conditions does SFPD consider attempted murder with a car worthy of prosecution?
Perhaps related: will ML do an article a day about it for weeks on end, reporting on who committed the attempted murder, what their motives were, what prior crimes either the killer or victim committed, the state of SFPD’s investigation, etc.? Will you do that sort of in-depth reporting on any of the other 20+ car-involved killings this year (or, inevitably, next year)?
Linking other accidents with this attempted murder is entirely inappropriate.
Comparing apples and hand grenades. Intentional murder is not an accident.
Wow, those bollards are already useful.
per khazar, “let’s keep it classy.”