Car Crashes Into Parked Cars on Mission and 17th
A woman was taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon after crashing into several parked cars on Mission and 17th streets. The driver of a red Volkswagen hatchback was traveling on Mission Street when...
View ArticleMission District Vehicle Thefts: Up One Month and Down the Next
Auto theft, a chronic problem in the Mission District, is up 64 percent this year, police Capt. Robert Moser told an audience of 40 or so community members at a Mission Station public meeting last...
View ArticleBomb Squad Clears Grenade at 25th and Capp, and Other Weekend Crime Tales
The San Francisco Police Department Bomb Squad recovered a potential explosive device in a residence at 25th and Capp Street on Monday morning — what appears to be a grenade-like device found by the...
View ArticleEast Bay Chase Ends with 5-Car Crash on Capp St.
A police chase that started just after 11 p.m. Wednesday night ended 40 minutes later on Capp and 24th streets when a taxi crashed into the fleeing vehicle, injuring two and spinning off to involve...
View ArticleAfternoon Report: Desperate Appeal to Recover a Son’s First Steps
The countdown to the weekend commences, but first: the Afternoon Report! In related news to yesterday’s report on smash-and-grabs, we bring you this cautionary tale and call to action: Sudarshan...
View ArticleChild Hit By Car In Mission Intersection
Police say a young boy, between the ages of 3 and 5, was hit in the crosswalk at the intersection of Mission and 21st street this morning at 11:24 a.m. The car was a white van turning from 21st onto...
View ArticleCrime Down in Mission Bay
Police told residents from the South Beach, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay Neighborhood Associations that crime in the Southern District fell by 14 percent, but residents also discovered that vehicle...
View ArticleVIDEO: Lowriding Returns!
En Español Lowriding was outlawed during the Feinstein mayoral administration, but the riders returned to the old meet-up spot known as “the lot” at La Raza Park last weekend in hopes of re-starting...
View ArticleThey Ticket on Labor Day, Yes They Do
En Español An as-yet unknown number of Mission residents and visitors got an unpleasant surprise yesterday, in the form of a $55 parking ticket. An alert reader sent us the above photo, plus a...
View ArticleWhat Does it Mean To Be a Low Rider?
Lowrider cars have their origins in the Chicano culture of the 1950s. Cruising in them was banned in San Francisco in the ’70s, during the Feinstein administration, but lowrider culture remains...
View ArticleCar Crashes Into Motorbike at Folsom and 22nd Streets
A car crashed into a motorbike at the intersection of Folsom and 22nd streets at 10 o’clock this morning. The motorcyclist was taken to San Francisco General Hospital but did not appear to be severely...
View ArticleCar Slams Into Casa Guadalupe, Two Injured
Two young men in a small black sedan lost control of their car and slammed into Casa Guadalupe, on Mission Street near 26th, sometime after 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The men immediately jumped out of the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Toys for Rich People
Mike Sarcona restores classic cars. This appeared in Mission Local in March 2010
View ArticleSharing Cars With the Neighbors for Profit
When 27-year-old Emmanuel Zamora found a green flyer tucked under his windshield wiper from Getaround.com in early January, he signed up immediately. The flyer promised car owners they could earn extra...
View ArticleNew Affordable Housing Development Renews Parking Woes
A new fully affordable housing development scheduled to be built at the corner of 17th and Folsom renewed longstanding fears about parking availability at a community meeting held yesterday, though...
View ArticleCommuters Voice Mixed Feelings About Mission St. Changes
San Francisco’s Mission Street is undergoing significant transformation in the coming months, but there is skepticism among drivers and bus riders that the changes will be for the better. As of last...
View ArticleIntersection Flooded After Car Rams Fire Hydrant Following a Collision
A car hit and dislodged a fire hydrant at the intersection of 18th Street and South Van Ness Avenue after it collided with a car being used as an Uber just after 1 p.m. on Thursday, causing minor...
View ArticleTwo Cars Flip Over in Mission Within Half-Hour
UPDATE 9/9/16: San Francisco Police report that the woman who was struck on Mission Street, a 62-year-old woman, is in life-threatening condition, having suffered traumatic brain injury. The driver of...
View ArticleConfusion Follows City CarShare’s New Getaround Identity
On November 10th, after Getaround and City CarShare announced a merger of sorts, City CarShare members trying to reserve cars found a whole new car-sharing experience waiting for them. City CarShare’s...
View ArticleCrash Leaves Car Flipped on 26th and Shotwell Streets
Around 1:30 p.m., a reader reports a car crash left one vehicle overturned in the Mission. Though the reader originally reported the crash took place on South Van Ness Avenue, a fire department...
View ArticleSaturday night car crash causes injuries, reader reports
A resident of 23rd and Alabama streets reports that what might have been a car chase ended with a crash in the intersection Saturday night around 11 p.m. It’s unclear how many were injured or how...
View ArticleLady lowriders grace the Grand Theatre
Photographer Michael Johnson captured these lowriders outside the launch party for The Mission last Thursday and remarked: “Woman lowriders are very few and far between, but these two have got the cars...
View ArticleSmash and grabs surge in SF’s Mission
On Wednesday morning six cars were found with their windows broken on 22nd Street and South Van Ness Avenue. A street over, at 22nd and Shotwell, two more cars were discovered with smashed windows....
View ArticleMan attacks self-driving car in SF Mission
A man threw his body onto a self-driving car — a GM Cruise AV — causing a car vs. pedestrian collision at the intersection of 16th and Valencia streets earlier this month, the DMV reported Wednesday....
View Article‘Window breaker’ spares car in the name of love
A moment of levity has sprung out of San Francisco’s car break-in epidemic: one of our resident smash-and-grabbers, it seems, has a crush. “I walked past your car every day and I never break your...
View ArticleSkateboarder remains in life-threatening condition after collision on 20th...
A male skateboarder, who was apparently traveling in the opposite direction of traffic on 20th Street, collided with a car on 20th near Guerrero Street Sunday evening and sustained a head injury. As of...
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