Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash in San Francisco's Excelsior District
Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run crash in San Francisco's Excelsior District
The San Francisco Police Department confirms a hit-and-run collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian early Wednesday morning resulted in the pedestrian's death.
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Department confirms a hit-and-run collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian early Wednesday morning resulted in the pedestrian's death.
Pedestrian killed
What we know:
The SFPD says officers responded to Mission Street and Santa Rosa Avenue in the Excelsior District at 12:22 a.m. on the report of a collision. When officers arrived, they said they found an injured male victim.
"I just hear all the cars' alarms, and then when I came out the body was on floor," said a witness, who noted someone had already called 9-1-1 and was attempting to render aid at the time.
Despite life-saving efforts by police and medics who arrived minutes later, the unidentified victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the driver of the vehicle who crashed into the pedestrian fled the scene and has not yet been located.
"I hope [police] can find something, because I’m sure a family is suffering right now," said the same witness.
What we don't know:
Police did not offer a description of the vehicle that fled, nor the suspected driver. It is not known if there are any witnesses or if there is surveillance video of the fatal crash.
No further details about the victim were provided.
Pedestrian deaths in SF
Pedestrian advocacy group, Walk San Francisco, said the intersection of Mission and Santa Rosa, where the crash happened on Wednesday, is on the city’s 2022 high injury network map, which includes the 12 percent of streets where 68 percent of traffic crashes occur. The group also said six other injury-causing crashes had occurred at the same intersection since 2015.
Earlier this week, we reported on a 77-year-old pedestrian who was killed on Market and 6th streets in downtown San Francisco, when they were struck by a scooter. Walk San Francisco had counted that incident as the city's 9th pedestrian death of the year and that seven of those nine victims were seniors.