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A reportedly drunken driver smashed through a parklet in the Mission early Monday morning, miraculously missing a sleeping homeless man before running over a fire hydrant.
The accident occurred around 1:10 a.m., fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said. The incident destroyed the parklet in front of EHS Pilates at 1400 Valencia Street.
Hélène Goupil is a former editor at Mission Local who now works independently as a videographer and editor. She's the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press).
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yet another reason to keep working at getting cars off our streets.
I would rather have drunks riding bikes than driving cars, or better yet, taking public transit.
its not drivers or cars, its the parklets, parklets kill people