San Francisco has recorded its seventh pedestrian fatality of 2014.
Police say a car struck and killed a man near the corner of Van Ness and Golden Gate avenues about 11 p.m. Sunday night. The city’s medical examiner’s office identified the man killed as Il Sun Im, 72.
Im reportedly was crossing Van Ness outside a crosswalk when a northbound driver hit him. Police say the driver remained at the scene, has cooperated with investigators and has not been cited or arrested because there was no evidence of criminal negligence.
The advocacy group Walk San Francisco says Im was the fourth pedestrian to die along Van Ness this year. The group’s executive director, Nicole Schneider, says the mile-and-a-half stretch of Van Ness between Broadway and Mission is very wide, characterized by high-speed traffic, and is a known high-injury corridor for pedestrians.
In an interview Monday with KQED’s Ted Goldberg, Schneider said the ongoing pedestrian toll, which includes an estimated three pedestrian-vehicle accidents every day, shows the need to make the city’s transportation infrastructure safer.