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Three Recent Assaults By Drivers Show Traffic Sewers’ Danger to Bikes, Peds

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 18, 2014 | 93 Comments

There have been three disturbing cases in SF within the last month in which drivers assaulted people walking and biking. Such cases are usually rare, but all of the attacks occurred on streets designed for fast driving. The most recent attack was in the Excelsior on November 11. According to the SFPD Ingleside Station newsletter, a driver was […]

SFPD to Cite Driver Who Hospitalized Woman While Backing Up

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 5, 2014 | 3 Comments

SFPD said a ticket will be issued to a driver who hit a woman last Wednesday while backing up on 16th Street near Pond Street, next to the Eureka Valley Branch Library. In initial reports, police said the driver had not been cited: The woman was hit at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection […]

Woman Killed at City Hall’s Doorstep, Right After Ped Safety Ceremony

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 24, 2014 | 78 Comments

Priscila “Precy” Moreto, a 67-year-old employee in the City Controller’s Office, was run over and killed by a tour trolley driver within a wide, clearly-marked mid-block crosswalk on Polk Street, leading to the steps of City Hall, at about 11:30 a.m. yesterday. About 20 minutes earlier and just across the Civic Center Plaza, at McAllister […]

87-Year-Old Louis Van Velzen Killed by Driver on Deadly Sloat Blvd

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 20, 2014 | 17 Comments

Another life has been taken on Sloat Boulevard — the deadly, too-wide street slicing through SF’s southwestern Parkside and Sunset Districts past the San Francisco Zoo. Louis Van Velzen, an 87-year-old father, was killed by a driver while crossing Sloat at 43rd Avenue at 7:00 a.m. this morning, the SF Chronicle reported. Van Velzen was reportedly […]

SFPD Arrests Aunt for Leaving Two-Year-Old Mi’yana Gregory in Crosswalk

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 20, 2014 | 38 Comments

SF police have arrested 25-year-old Lorysha Gage for leaving two-year-old Mi’yana Gregory in the downtown crosswalk where she was run over and killed last Friday night. Even as police seek the driver who struck Gregory and fled the scene, Gage is set to be arraigned tomorrow on charges of “felony child endangerment, with an enhancement allegation […]

Eyes on the Street: Parked Car Sets House on Fire

By Aaron Bialick | May 28, 2014

Sometimes, internal combustion can become spontaneous combustion. On the night of May 17, the front of my neighbor’s house in the Inner Sunset caught on fire. Another neighbor said that the fire started in the engine of the car parked in their driveway. No one was hurt, and SFFD responded swiftly and effectively to put […]

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