SF pedestrian killed by elderly driver parking — echoing deadly West Portal crash

Two pedestrians were struck, one fatally, by an SUV Friday in Chinatown, police said. A 76-year-old man was trying to park when his car crashed into two pedestrians and a building near the corner of Jackson Street and Grant Avenue. Footage from passersby shows the SUV on the sidewalk after the crash. One pedestrian died at a hospital; the other was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Police did not identify the victims. The driver remained on the scene and is cooperating with the San Francisco Police Department’s investigation. Impairment due to alcohol or drugs do not appear to have contributed to the crash. The collision comes one week after Mary Fong Lau, 80, was sentenced to three years of probation after speeding into and killing a family of four who were waiting at a West Portal bus stop in 2024, as she tried to park her Mercedes SUV. The Chinatown intersection is marked as dangerous on the city’s high-injury network map. The map, updated this week, marks Jackson Street at Grant Street as one of the locations where the most fatal and injurious crashes happen. Friday’s collision was the second traffic death in San Francisco this week. A person was struck and killed Tuesday by a 38-Geary Muni bus near Kearny and Geary streets after falling into the roadway. On Feb. 27, a 2-year-old died after being pinned under a car at Fourth and Channel streets. With Friday’s crash, seven pedestrians and one person on an electric scooter have been killed in traffic accidents so far this year in San Francisco, according to city data and pedestrian safety groups .