A man died Saturday evening after being struck by driver in a hit-and-run in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood, officials said Sunday.
Officers responded to reports of a vehicle collision involving a pedestrian at Silver Avenue and Colby Street at 5:37 p.m., according to a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson.
First responders found the man suffering from life-threatening injuries and attempted life-saving measures, a San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson added. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The vehicle fled immediately after the collision, police said.
On Monday, the city Office of the Medical Examiner identified the victim as Charles Bollinger, 81, of San Francisco.
Saturday’s collision follows another fatal collision on the Great Highway just over a week ago. This comes on the heels of the worst year for traffic deaths broadly — and pedestrian deaths specifically — since the city’s failed Vision Zero pledge in 2014 to end traffic deaths.
While data show that motorists are usually at fault in fatal collisions with pedestrians, and other cities have achieved Vision Zero, some San Franciscans believe eliminating traffic deaths is impossible and the city’s interventions in the streetscape and state’s laws do more to inconvenience drivers than to protect those outside of cars.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the victim as a woman. The victim was an 81-year-old man.
