3rd victim in Saturday's San Francisco West Portal crash dies; infant still critical
SAN FRANCISCO -- A third person has died and an infant is still suffering life-threatening injuries after a car struck a bus shelter near the West Portal Muni station, police said Sunday.
Four people were in the bus stop at Ulloa Street and Lenox Way on Saturday afternoon outside the West Portal Branch Library when an eastbound car struck the shelter about 12:13 p.m., said Lt. Mariano Elias, a fire department spokesman.
Two people in the shelter were pronounced dead at the scene and three people were taken to the hospital, including the driver of the car.
On Sunday, a woman who was struck succumbed to her injuries and died and an infant remained in critical condition.
Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy nonprofit, identified those killed on Saturday as a man and a toddler.
"This is one of the worst pedestrian tragedies to ever occur on San Francisco streets," Jodie Medeiros, executive director of the organization, said in a statement.
Walk San Francisco will hold a vigil for the victims at the crash site at 5 p.m. Monday, she said.
West Portal Avenue is a major commercial corridor with significant foot traffic and the K and M Muni rail lines running on the surface, according to Walk San Francisco.
"It's time to fundamentally rethink areas like where this crash occurred, where thousands of people walk and cross and wait every day," Medeiros said.
San Francisco police said an investigating is ongoing but they do not believe that traffic engineering was a factor in the collision.
The victims of Saturday's crash were the city's fifth and sixth pedestrian deaths this year, Walk San Francisco said. Sunday's death brings that number to seven.
That figure is more than double what it was at the same time last year, according to pedestrian advocates. In 2023, 17 people were killed while walking in San Francisco, the organization said.
CBS News Bay Area learned on Wednesday that the infant had also died, raising the death toll in the terrible accident to four.