{"id":426059,"date":"2026-08-07T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:38:09","slug":"car-crashes-into-back-of-muni-bus-catches-fire-in-nopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426059\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Crashes Into Back of Muni Bus, Catches Fire In NoPa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A car crashed into the back of a Muni bus, causing little apparent damage to the bus, but crushing the front end of the car which then caught fire on McAllister Street Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

The incident happened around 5:20 pm Thursday, on McAllister Street between Divisadero and Broderick streets. A gray, two-door BMW traveling westbound appeared to have crashed into the back of a 5-Fulton bus and subsequently caught fire.<\/p>\n

The SF Department of Emergency Management sent out an alert to avoid the area of Divis and McAllister at 5:52 pm, but the scene was largely quieting down by that point.<\/p>\n

An ambulance was on the scene but the injuries incurred by the driver of the BMW are not known, or if there were any passengers. The Citizen app had a report of one person injured. The car’s open trunk appeared to have grocery bags in it.<\/p>\n

Photo by Jay Barmann\/SFistThe scene at Broderick and McAllister following the crash. Photo by Jay Barmann\/SFist<\/p>\n

Multiple SFFD fire engines were on the scene and the blaze was extinguished by 5:50 pm, though the 5-Fulton and 5R-Fulton lines were heavily impacted, with buses re-routing around the collision scene onto Golden Gate Avenue. Several buses also became stuck and unable to maneuver around the emergency vehicles on the scene.<\/p>\n

The bus that appeard to be hit did not have any visible damage, with the car possible wedging itself under the rear bumber of the bus before catching fire.<\/p>\n

This is the third emergency to occur in the neighborhood in just 48 hours, with a significant rollover crash two blocks away<\/a> at Divisadero and Grove streets on Tuesday, and a major fire at Fulton and Fillmore<\/a> early this morning, with 18 apartment residents requiring rescue.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car crashed into the back of a Muni bus, causing little apparent damage to the bus, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-426059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426059","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=426059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}