Photo by Andrew Sarkarati
A 5-Fulton bus hit a bicyclist this morning and kept going, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Andrew Sarkarati at MissionMission has a first-person account when he arrived at the scene shortly after the collision.
Passengers yelled at the bus driver to stop, but the driver kept going, reports SFWeekly:
Multiple eyewitnesses on the street confirmed to SF Weekly that the cyclist — whose identity we were unable to ascertain — was hit by the bus, which continued onward. The victim, who was talking to police and appeared to be moving, was loaded onto a gurney and taken away in an ambulance.
Both the Chronicle and SFWeekly are reporting that the bus ran over the front wheel of the woman’s bike, and that there’s no indication that the bus made contact with the bicyclist. Judson True, spokesperson for SFMTA, told the SF Chronicle that the driver should have stopped:
The bicyclist was conscious and appeared to have a scrape on her head as she was loaded into an ambulance in a neck brace. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, True said.
We’ll keep you posted.
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buses don’t usually make contact with car drivers when they hit their cars, either, but the buses should still stop, si? forget the fact that it’s the law to stop — what should a decent person do?
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jeff Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 pm
yeah, this appears to be FAIL on so many levels.
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does anyone else see the irony in the billboard?
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