A driver smashed into a Muni shelter on Sutter near Taylor Street last night, and Matt Haze Kaftor witnessed the aftermath. It's not apparent if anyone was injured. "By the time I saw the vehicle, it appeared all its inhabitants had been evacuated from the scene," Kaftor said. "Front side and rear airbags were all deployed."
Fingers crossed here -- hopefully no one was unfortunate enough to be waiting at the shelter in the path of the driver, who reportedly decimated a concrete trash can on the sidewalk.
SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose said the cost of repairing Muni shelters doesn't come out of the agency's pocket -- they're repaired by Clear Channel, the contractor that uses them for advertisements. No word on if they pursue reimbursements from the driver's insurance company in incidents like this.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.