{"id":272896,"date":"2026-04-17T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:52:12","slug":"driver-hurt-in-crash-with-muni-bus-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272896\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hurt in crash with Muni bus in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was hospitalized after a crash involving a Muni bus Thursday night near Lake Merced, authorities said \u2014 the second collision involving San Francisco transit in as many days.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported around 10:18 p.m. on the 500 block of John Muir Drive, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. Emergency crews arrived to find a car and a Muni bus that had <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.com\/-OqOtLD7dOfuzvVzeXe5\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">collided head-on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the driver of the car suffered moderate to major injuries and had to be freed from the wreckage using hydraulic rescue tools. The driver was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Muni operator was also transported to a hospital for evaluation of minor injuries, officials said. The bus was not carrying passengers at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear what led to the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/san-francisco-police-chase-ends-in-crash-with-muni-bus\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">KRON4 reported,<\/a> citing fire officials, that the driver was in a stolen vehicle and may have been fleeing police before the collision. The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatch reports indicated multiple vehicles may have been involved, and video from the scene showed a large emergency response, including multiple ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>The collision comes one day after a separate crash disrupted cable car service at the Powell Street turnaround downtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In that incident, a driver entered a restricted area and struck transit infrastructure, damaging a signal and barrier, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Police later detained a 47-year-old Oakland man in connection with the downtown crash on suspicion of driving under the influence, hit-and-run and other offenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in that case, and service has since been restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was hospitalized after a crash involving a Muni bus Thursday night near Lake Merced, authorities said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,7,723,3768,101,103,102,104,106,105,3766],"class_list":{"0":"post-272896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-muni","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","14":"tag-san-francisco-news","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-headlines","17":"tag-sf-news","18":"tag-transit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}