{"id":428385,"date":"2026-08-09T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:28:33","slug":"at-least-2-pedestrians-injured-after-truck-crashes-into-light-pole-along-ofarrell-in-san-francisco-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428385\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 2 pedestrians injured after truck crashes into light pole along O&#8217;Farrell in San Francisco, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KGO logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kgo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, August 9, 2026 9:50PM<\/p>\n<p>Stream local breaking news and original programming, live 24\/7, from ABC7 Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; Two people are injured after a truck crashed into and damaged a street light pole in San Francisco on Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened near the Handlery Hotel on O&#8217;Farrell St. at Cyril Magnin just before 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image shows truck damaged after crashing into light pole in San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19653302_080926-kgo-ofarrell-accident-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image shows truck damaged after crashing into light pole in San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Jue\/KGO-TV<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say it was solo-vehicle crash involving a Ford pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shot by ABC7 Eyewitness News showed the front damage of the Ford truck which also hit the front end of a delivery truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SFPD Public Information Officer Robert Rueca says two pedestrians were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver of the truck remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The San Francisco Department of Emergency issued an alert via ALERTSF around 1 p.m. asking drivers and pedestrians to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with information regarding the crash is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, August 9, 2026 9:50PM Stream local breaking news and original programming, live 24\/7, from ABC7 Bay Area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[170500,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-428385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-170500","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\/428385","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=428385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}