The three-vehicle crash happened Saturday morning, leaving one man dead after he was ejected from his vehicle.
San Francisco hills are not a joke; ask anyone who has lived here any amount of time or visited long enough to climb Mason Street up to the top of Nob Hill. As we’ve learned recently, SF is also home to some of the most dangerous intersections in the entire country.
Bad car crash in Noe Valley near 24th Street (Clipper and Diamond Streets).
San Francisco has a roadway safety crisis. We need a mayor who will take action to transform our streets and help more people shift trips away from cars ASAP.
This is a policy and infrastructure choice. pic.twitter.com/Iumz3p2cWg
— Luke Bornheimer (@LukeBornheimer) March 30, 2024
The city is on pace to surpass last year’s pedestrian fatalities tally; as of publishing, SF has recorded twelve vehicular fatalities. On Saturday, a three-car crash in Noe Valley at the intersection of Clipper and Diamond streets killed one unnamed man.
According to authorities, the man’s car struck a tree before striking three other vehicles that were parked on the block near the intersection around 10:30 a.m.; per San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Lt. Mariano Elias, the car eventually stopped on its roof, but not before the driver was ejected from the vehicle.
Elias noted that the unmanned man was transported to a nearby hospital, but he later succumbed to his injuries; no identity was released.
No individuals were inside the parked cars during the crash, and the intersection remained closed and taped off — first responders were at the scene of the crash for most of the morning and afternoon; warning cones dotted the asphalt — and City authorities urged people to avoid the area until the evening.
The fatal crash, too, came just days after Mayor Breed pledged to shore up street and pedestrian safety measures; the declaration was announced… coincidentally or not after Mission Local published a scathing report laying out Vision Zero’s failure to eliminate pedestrian deaths in SF by January of this year.
Feature image: Courtesy of X via [at]chrismichel
