SAN FRANCISCO—On August 2, 2025, at around ten o’clock in the evening, near Ocean Avenue and Lee Avenue, which is in close proximity to City College of San Francisco’s Ocean Campus, an eighty-three-year-old pedestrian was involved in a head-on collision when police officers of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) were called to the scene. The pedestrian in question had acquired life-threatening injuries, which received attention at a local hospital but later died on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
The driver, who hit the deceased, had stayed at the scene when the medics left with the pedestrian. This investigation is pending.
As of 2024, twenty-four people were killed just walking in San Francisco, which is the highest amount since 2007. A total of twenty-four people had been killed in traffic accidents in San Francisco in 2024, the highest amount in a decade.
Following is a partial list of the pedestrian-related vehicle accidents in 2025:
1) Saturday, January 4, 2025- Charles Bollinger, 81, killed by a hit-and-run driver at the intersection of Silver Avenue and Colby Street
2) Tuesday, January 21, 2025: Woman, 77, hit by a driver at the intersection of Carter Street and Geneva Avenue and passed on Tuesday, January 28, 2025.
3) Friday, March 14, 2025: Woman, 77, hit at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 39th Avenue and passed Thursday, March 27, 2025.
4) Tuesday April 21, 2025: Mary Naito, 86, hit-and-run driver hit her on Fillmore Street and McAllister Street and died on Friday, April 25, 2025.
5) Tuesday, May 1, 2025: Anabella ‘Bella’ Gabriel Baquera, 74, fatally hit by a driver at the intersection of 7th Street and Howard Street
To make traffic more safe, Board of Supervisors last week has introduced a Street Safety Act, bringing accountability to traffic safety.
