{"id":405214,"date":"2026-07-20T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405214\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:12:10","slug":"9-hurt-after-reckless-driver-crashes-into-car-during-sf-police-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405214\/","title":{"rendered":"9 hurt after reckless driver crashes into car during SF police pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hxn477a3wl39825o.jpg\" alt=\"Nine hurt in SF car crash\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hxn477a3wl39825o.jpg\" alt=\"Nine hurt in SF car crash\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-72p6i3ufdvybg9xp\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nine hurt in SF car crash<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">San Francisco Police Department officers were on patrol in the area of Guerrero and 19th streets just after 8 p.m. on Sunday when they &#8220;observed a vehicle driving erratically,&#8221; according to a department statement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Nine people were injured in San Francisco on Sunday night when a reckless driver trying to evade police crashed into another car.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">San Francisco Police Department officers were on patrol in the area of Guerrero and 19th streets just after 8 p.m. on Sunday when they &#8220;observed a vehicle driving erratically,&#8221; according to a department statement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police tried to stop the reckless driver, but the suspect failed to yield and almost struck another patrol car near 18th and Guerrero streets, the SFPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The suspect vehicle eventually came to a stop in the area of 14th and South Van Ness Avenue when it crashed into another occupied vehicle which collided into a fire hydrant and a business,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8220;Officers quickly detained the driver and the other four occupants of the suspect vehicle for the investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two people inside the suspect vehicle were taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, while six others were reported to have suffered minor injuries. The ninth refused transportation to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver and four passengers from the suspect vehicle were detained following the crash, but their identities and the possible charges they may face were not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: San Francisco Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine hurt in SF car crash San Francisco Police Department officers were on patrol in the area of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,2042,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-405214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405214","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=405214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}