{"id":466291,"date":"2026-09-17T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:00:11","slug":"sf-approves-nearly-2-million-payout-to-family-of-cyclist-fatally-doored-by-city-worker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466291\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Approves Nearly $2 Million Payout to Family Of Cyclist Fatally Doored By City Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 San Francisco officials will pay nearly $2 million to the family of a cyclist killed when a city worker doored him in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the $1,975,000 settlement setttlement recommended by City Attorney David Chiu and Public Utilities Commission General Manager Dennis Herrera during its latest meeting on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-francisco\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>A complaint filed in court following Steven Bassett&#8217;s death says he was riding his bicycle northbound on Newhall Street in San Francisco when a city worker parked on the western curb opened their car door and struck him just before 9:30 a.m. on May 30, 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Bassett died 12 days later from his injuries, with the complaint stating the dooring was a substantial factor in his death. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By way of example, the negligent instruction herein included failing to ensure that every CCSF employee uses a method such as the &#8216;Dutch Reach&#8217; to ensure that it is safe for passing cyclists before any vehicle door is opened in traffic,&#8221; attorneys representing Bassett&#8217;s family alleged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 San Francisco officials will pay nearly $2 million to the family of a cyclist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-466291","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\/466291","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=466291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}