{"id":432233,"date":"2026-08-14T00:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:04:15","slug":"after-san-francisco-scooter-victim-identified-advocates-call-for-safer-market-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432233\/","title":{"rendered":"After San Francisco Scooter Victim Identified, Advocates Call for Safer Market Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advocates seek safer Muni rail crossings and traffic changes as debate continues over Market Street access and downtown road safety.<\/p>\n

Aug 13, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 4:45 pm PT<\/p>\n

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A person with an umbrella crosses Market Street in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024. For nearly five years, cars could not drive down Market Street following advocacy from groups like the Bicycle Coalition. \u00a0(Beth LaBerge\/KQED)<\/p>\n

Advocates for safer streets are renewing calls for changes along San Francisco\u2019s Market Street after a 32-year-old woman was struck and killed<\/a> while riding an electric scooter last week, saying the fatal crash highlights longstanding safety concerns along the busy corridor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yebin Kim, a San Francisco resident, was riding near Powell and Market streets downtown when she was struck by a commercial truck, San Francisco police said. At 8:18 a.m., officers found Kim in the street with life-threatening injuries. Medics attempted to save her, but ultimately pronounced her dead at the scene, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both the vehicle and the driver have been located, but the police said they are not providing additional comment at this time due to an open and active investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Cars drive down Market Street in San Francisco on Jan. 20, 2022.<\/p>\n

Claire Amable, spokesperson for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, said Kim\u2019s death is the second crash this summer involving a wheel<\/a> stuck in a Muni rail.<\/p>\n

The group is holding a vigil to honor Kim at 4:30 p.m. on Friday at the intersection where she died. They\u2019re also calling for changes along the busy stretch \u2014 including shifting transit stops to\u00a0center lanes so that they mix less with bikes and scooters, installing strips of rubber that make it harder for wheels to get stuck along rail crossings and making Market Street completely car-free again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a place where people aren\u2019t feeling as safe as they once did on Market Street,\u201d Amable said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tragedy on Market Street is heartbreaking, and my condolences go out to Yebin\u2019s family and friends,\u201d Lurie said. \u201cAs the city investigates the incident on Market Street, we will continue to move the work forward to create safer streets for all San Franciscans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amable invited anyone who is concerned about \u201cwrongful deaths on our streets, to come and to just be in community\u201d at Friday\u2019s vigil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocates seek safer Muni rail crossings and traffic changes as debate continues over Market Street access and downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-432233","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\/432233","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=432233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}