cbs5.com reports that an elderly woman was run over and killed by a passenger van turning from 9th Avenue onto Geary Boulevard at about 8:15 this morning.
Willy Wong, the manager of the Shell gas station across the street heard a loud bang, and then saw the woman lying on the ground, underneath the vehicle’s two front tires.
Wong said two customers from the gas station went to try to help the victim before authorities arrived. cbs5.com spoke to one of them in their video report.
The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where she later died from her injuries. Police are investigating the incident.
The SF Examiner has identified the victim as Jon Kong, a 70-year old resident of the Richmond district
Sarah B.
Recently I did some traffic watching. At a few random stop signs greater than 50% of the cars did not come to a complete stop at the signs, at least 20% just rolled through. On Geary (our little freeway) I measured some blocks, did some calculations and used the trusty stopwatch. Speeds for a lot of folks were well above 40 mph on stretches with a lot of rampant cell phone use and texting. This poor lady did not have a chance. Won’t even mention the crosswalks.RIP nice lady you have way too folks joining you these days!