{"id":428397,"date":"2026-08-09T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428397\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T22:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:52:12","slug":"driver-hits-pole-2-pedestrians-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428397\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver hits pole, 2 pedestrians in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">The driver of a pickup struck a pole and two pedestrians in San Francisco in front of the Handlery Hotel. Aug. 9, 2026 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; The driver of a pickup truck struck a light pole in San Francisco on Sunday, while also hitting two people walking either on the street or sidewalk, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash was reported at 12:24 p.m. at O&#8217;Farrel and Cyril Magnin streets in front of The Handlery Union Square Hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the pedestrians were taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. The force was so hard that a street sign was knocked over. Video showed a tow truck hauling away the damaged pickup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver remained on scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It is unclear what prompted the driver to crash or exactly the pedestrians were when they were struck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone who has information regarding is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: SFPD, visual evidence<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sf3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">The driver of a pickup struck a pole and two pedestrians in San Francisco in front of the Handlery Hotel. Aug. 9, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">The driver of a pickup struck a pole and two pedestrians in San Francisco in front of the Handlery Hotel. Aug. 9, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>     <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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The driver of a pickup struck a pole and two pedestrians in San Francisco in front of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-428397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","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\/428397","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=428397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}