Overview

• According to SFPD, officers responded around 3:15 a.m., performed CPR on the injured man and he later died at a local hospital, while the driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.
• Walk San Francisco said the 78-year-old was the third senior pedestrian killed in the South of Market neighborhood this year and one of nine elderly walkers fatally struck in the city so far.
• The collision occurred on a street classified in the high-injury network, a 12% subset of roads responsible for 68% of serious traffic crashes.
• The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has planned safety upgrades under the 6th Street Pedestrian Safety Project but has not yet implemented changes at Sixth and Howard.
• Automated speed cameras began issuing tickets citywide five days before the accident, but none have been installed at the Sixth and Howard intersection.