PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2026

CONTACT: Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director, Walk SF, jodie@walksf.org, 415.596.1580

Two pedestrians killed in one day in the Outer Mission and North Beach neighborhoods

San Francisco, Calif. – Walk SF learned from the San Francisco Police Department that a 42-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver on March 5, 2026 at the intersection of Mission Street and Naglee Avenue in the Outer Mission neighborhood (District 11). Another pedestrian, who was 46 years old, was fatally struck on the same day at Broadway and Kearny in the North Beach neighborhood in District 3 while on the sidewalk. No additional information is available at this time.

“No one’s life should end in this way. Our hearts go out to the victims’ family and 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, including post-crash checklists in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Tagalog, are available at walksf.org/fss. 

There have now been five pedestrian deaths in San Francisco so far in 2026. The first pedestrian death in 2026 was a 76-year-old woman on February 3rd at Bayshore Boulevard & Silver Avenue in District 10. The second was a 47-year-old woman who was hit and killed at Bayshore Boulevard and Arleta Avenue on February 14th in District 10. The third was a two-year-old child who was hit and killed by a driver on February 27, 2026 at the intersection of 4th and Channel Streets in District 6.

“Everyone should feel and be safe on San Francisco’s streets,” said Medeiros. “Every life lost is a painful reminder that city leaders must treat traffic safety as an urgent priority.”  

The fatal crash at Mission Street and Naglee Avenue comes less than three months after an 80-year-old pedestrian was fatally hit by a hit & run on December 17, 2025 at the same intersection. 

Mission Street 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. There have been five other crashes reported that resulted in injuries at the intersection of Naglee and Mission since the beginning of 2016. The section of Mission Street where the crash occurred is 55-feet-wide, with four vehicle travel lanes. Wide streets are correlated with higher rates of speeding, and also mean pedestrians have farther to cross and a longer period of time at risk in the intersection. There is a speed camera located 2-blocks away at Mission and Ottawa where at least a dozen speeding violations are issued each day. 

Broadway is also designated as a dangerous street on the city’s 2022 “high-injury network” map. Yesterday’s fatality at Broadway and Kearny Street is less than 0.4 miles away from where a 72-year-old senior was killed at Mason Street and Broadway Streets on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. The crash that killed the 46-year old man is along a busy commercial corridor with high pedestrian foot traffic. 

“Yesterday was a terrible day for our city. Two lives cut short unnecessarily,” said Medeiros. “It doesn’t have to be this way. San Francisco can and should do better to keep us safe.”  

In 2025, San Francisco elected leaders pledged to make faster progress on traffic safety. The Street Safety Act, authored by District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors on September 16, 2025. Then on December 16, Mayor Lurie signed a wide-ranging executive directive on traffic safety.

These commitments, paired with much more accountability and oversight for agencies from the Mayor’s Office, could make Vision Zero a success story in its second decade. 

March 25 will mark the 100th day since Mayor Lurie signed the Street Safety Act.

“We are looking to Mayor Lurie to push forward what he’s boldly committed our city to do in his Street Safety Act,” said Medeiros. “His leadership can help end these tragedies.”  

While in 2025 San Francisco had one of the lowest numbers of traffic deaths in a decade, the previous year was the highest (42) since 2014. Of the 16 pedestrians killed in 2025, 12 were seniors. More than half of pedestrian deaths were hit and runs. These are disturbing trends that indicate how much work remains. 

There’s another worrisome trend: the percentage of total crashes resulting in death has been rising in recent years, as well as the number of speed-related crashes (read more in this 2024 SFMTA report). 

The Street Safety Act, which District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar authored earlier this year, renewed the City’s commitment to Vision Zero and included a suite of actions for agencies including:

• Adding ‘Complete Streets’ infrastructure improvements (like pedestrian bulb-outs, turn calming, hardened daylighting, and pedestrian safety islands) anytime a high-injury or arterial street is repaved or updated in other ways 
• Replacing the Residential Traffic Calming Program with a proactive approach for adding speed humps and cushions across neighborhoods with data-driven, pre-approved design standards so these can be installed quickly
• Planning for bringing ‘hardened daylighting’ to the high-injury network (once all intersections citywide are painted), plus establishing a process for community groups or residents to enhance daylit corners 
• Increasing and focusing SFPD traffic enforcement on the driving behavior most likely to result in a traffic crash, plus conducting monthly strategic enforcement operations on speeding to complement the locations and effectiveness of the speed camera program
• Prioritizing the use of automated enforcement, including speed cameras and red light cameras, including pursuing more legal authority to expand the use of speed cameras
• Establish street design standards and maximum review periods for approval by the Fire Department so safety projects are implemented faster. 

Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Street Safety Initiative includes important actions including:

• Establishes a first-ever Safe Streets Task Force within the Mayor’s Office, a key element of the most successful Vision Zero cities around the world.
• Brings 15 agencies together on traffic safety. 
• Commits to a safe systems, data-driven, multiagency, and preventative approach. 
• Establishing a public dashboard updated quarterly with outcomes-based metrics to assess progress toward ending severe and fatal crashes, plus more regular updates of the high-injury network and crash data analysis.
• Directs agencies to complete many of the actions in the Street Safety Act. 

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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.