A man was hit and killed early Sunday morning at the intersection of 16th Street and Rondel Place, an alleyway near Valencia Street, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
Officers responded to “a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian” at approximately 2:43 a.m., the department stated. A preliminary investigation by the SFPD has determined that the man was already lying in the roadway before he was struck.
While the driver remained at the scene, police said, paramedics transported the victim to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
A message to the medical examiner regarding the victim’s identity has not yet been returned.
The collision brings the total number of traffic-related pedestrian deaths in San Francisco this year to 22, according to local nonprofit Walk San Francisco, compared to 18 in 2023.
There have been a disproportionate number of pedestrian fatalities along 16th Street, Walk SF reported. Three other people have been killed within the four-block stretch between Valencia Street and Harrison Streets in the last four years.
A decade ago, San Francisco outlined “Vision Zero,” a plan to prevent severe and fatal traffic crashes. “While important progress has been made to redesign our streets to prioritize safety,” Walk SF executive director Jodie Medeiros said in a statement today, “these all-to-common tragedies continue to remind us of how far San Francisco still has to go.”
This story will be updated as more information becomes available. Anyone with information is asked to contact SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
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