SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 3.24.2024
When will it end? The criminal kow towing to motorists in San Francisco.
A City government which pays lip service to safe streets and the goals of Vision Zero.
It’s all just mindless blather. The San Francisco leadership from Mayor London Breed on down does absolutely nothing to stop the carnage caused by reckless criminal entitled motorists.
Coming close on the skid marks of the horrific act by a 78 year old driver and her Mercedes SUV. An entire Brasilian family was wiped out at a bus stop just a week ago. A woman who should be criminally charged. The police may cite these drivers. But, in laissez faire San Francisco the District Attorney will do nothing in the way of pursuing criminal charges.
Now we have yet another reckless criminal motorist crashing into another bus stop. The press will blithely report the fact nobody was killed. Life in San Francisco will go on as normal. Drivers will continue to act in their oblivious criminal entitled manner.
Fortunately an alert citizen was able to capture the scene as a graphic reminder of yet another criminal act by a motorist.
The number of dead will continue to grow on the streets of San Francisco. Caused not by gunshots. But by automobiles.
Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle 3.24.2024
A pedestrian was injured by a vehicle that crashed near a bus stop near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Saturday, authorities said.
The victim was struck just before 4:50 p.m. near a bus stop at Fulton Street and Park Presidio Boulevard, the San Francisco Police Department said. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Fabian Skibinski said he was near the bus stop when a fast-moving car “came out of nowhere” and struck a pole with a “loud bang,” trapping a man underneath. He said the pole grazed a young boy and came within inches of a teenage girl and several other people
It was “basically a miracle that no one died or was maimed,” Fabian Skibinski said, adding that the pole prevented others from injury because it stopped the car.
“The man trapped underneath was in shock but seemed like he was going to be basically OK. He was talking and breathing normally … no visible blood,” he said. “The driver was also in shock, but not injured. Police came within a few minutes.”
The driver, identified as a man, was cited for “multiple moving vehicle violations,” police officials said.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-crash-bus-stop-19365853.php
Top photo: A pedestrian suffered non-life-threatening injuries Saturday when he was stuck under a pole near a bus stop after a crash near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Courtesy of Fabian Skibinski
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