PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2025
CONTACT: Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director, Walk SF, jodie@walksf.org, 415.596.1580; Marta Lindsey, Communications Director, Walk SF, marta@walksf.org, 617.833.7654
Pedestrian killed in Russian Hill neighborhood marks 15th pedestrian death this year
11th senior pedestrian death this year
San Francisco, Calif. – Walk SF learned from the San Francisco Police Department that a pedestrian hit by a driver on the morning of Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at the intersection of Mason Street and Broadway in the Russian Hill neighborhood has succumbed to their injuries. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the victim was a 72-year-old senior. No additional information is available at this time.
“We grieve this life lost on our streets. We hold the victim in our thoughts, and our hearts are with the victim’s loved ones,” said Jodie Medeiros, executive director for Walk San Francisco.
Walk San Francisco (Walk SF) and San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets (Families for Safe Streets) are here to support the friends and loved ones of the victim however possible. Resources are available at walksf.org/fss.
“2025 has been an especially deadly year for older pedestrians in San Francisco,” said Medeiros. “Almost three-quarters of pedestrians killed this year have been seniors.”
“We can measure our city’s safety by how safe our kids and seniors are,” said Medeiros. “By this measure, it’s clear San Francisco isn’t doing nearly enough when it comes to traffic safety. We all deserve to be safe crossing the street in our city.”
The location of this crash is a busy – and dangerous – one for pedestrians. The intersection where the crash occurred is near Jean Parker Elementary School, Lady Shaw Senior Center, and the Chinatown Public Health Center. Broadway is designated as a dangerous street on the city’s 2022 “high-injury network” map: the 12% of streets where 68% of traffic crashes occur.
This is the 15th pedestrian death in San Francisco so far this year, and the 11th senior pedestrian death.
The first pedestrian death in San Francisco in 2025 was 81-year-old Charles Bollinger, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver on January 4, 2025 at the intersection of Silver Avenue and Colby Street. The second was a 77-year-old woman who was hit by a driver on January 21, 2025 at the intersection of Carter Street and Geneva Avenue and passed on January 28, 2025. The third was a 77-year-old woman who was hit by a driver on March 14, 2025 at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 39th Avenue and passed on March 27, 2025. The fourth was 86-year-old Mary Naito, who was struck by a hit-and-run driver on April 21, 2025, at the intersection of Fillmore Street and McAllister Street succumbed to her injuries on April 25, 2025. The fifth was 74-year-old Annabella “Bella” Gabriel Baquera, who was fatally hit by a driver on May 1, 2025, at the intersection of 7th Street and Howard Street. The sixth was a 47-year-old pedestrian who was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver on May 12, 2025 at the intersection of Bayshore Boulevard and Jerrold Avenue. The seventh was a pedestrian who was fatally hit by a driver on May 27, 2025 at the intersection of 10th Street and Folsom Street. The eighth was a 67-year-old pedestrian who was fatally hit by a driver on June 2, 2025, at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 2nd Avenue. The ninth was 77-year-old Peter Rudolph who was hit and killed while crossing Market Street at 6th Street by a person riding an electric scooter. The tenth was a pedestrian who was fatally hit by a driver at Mission Street and Santa Rosa Avenue on July 23, 2025. The 11th was an 83-year-old pedestrian who was hit near the intersection of Ocean and Lee Avenues on August 2, 2025, and succumbed to their injuries. The 12th pedestrian death was a 78-year-old person hit on August 10 while crossing 6th Street at Howard Street. The 13th was 30-year-old Binod Budhathoki, who was fatally hit by a hit-and-run driver on Saturday, October 4, while crossing Cortland Avenue at Anderson Street. The 14th was 88-year-old Lau Sim Lui, who was fatally hit by a driver on Sunday, October 26, at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Ashton Avenue.
24 people were killed while walking in San Francisco in 2024, the highest number since 2007. A total of 42 people were killed in traffic crashes in San Francisco in 2024, the highest number in a decade. Around 500 people are severely injured in traffic crashes each year in San Francisco.
“We face more threats than ever as pedestrians,” said Medeiros. “Vehicles are bigger, heavier, and more powerful. Dangerous driving behaviors, especially speeding, are all too common these days. And many streets and intersections are not yet designed to keep drivers going at safe speeds and protect the most vulnerable.”
“City leaders can and must do more,” said Medeiros. “We commend the Board of Supervisors for passing the Street Safety Act, but now it needs to be put into action.”
The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the Street Safety Act on September 16 (read more). The Street Safety Act recommits our city to ending severe and fatal crashes, gets agencies to collaborate and work more efficiently, and focuses on bringing the most effective solutions to scale including to reducing dangerous speeding in more ways. This includes:
- Reforming the Residential Traffic Calming Program so it takes a proactive, neighborhood-scale approach to adding speed humps, tables, and more to bring down speeds on smaller streets.
- Planning how to sufficiently redesign all high-injury streets with solutions including turn calming, signal timing, and lane reductions to better design streets that keep drivers going at safe speeds.
- Further embracing automated enforcement.
- Requiring the SFPD to develop a traffic enforcement plan that complements the speed camera program.
Walk SF is calling on Mayor Daniel Lurie and agency leaders to work quickly to adopt detailed plans and directives with deadlines, plus regular interagency meetings, to implement what’s in the Street Safety Act.
“The new Street Safety Act asks City agencies to take effective and timely actions to ensure that all of us can get around safely,” said Medeiros. “But agency leaders and City Hall have to actually deliver on it.”
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Walk San Francisco (‘Walk SF’) advocates on behalf of all pedestrians in San Francisco. Since its founding in 1998, Walk SF has successfully pushed for solutions to design and enforce streets where people of all ages and abilities are safe walking. Learn more.
San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets is a group of people who have been directly affected by traffic crashes, including crash survivors and people whose loved ones have been killed or injured in traffic crashes. Learn more.