SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – Since the start of this year, ten pedestrians have been killed in San Francisco traffic accidents.
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To honor the victims, a vigil is being held Thursday night at the site where a mother and daughter were killed just four days ago.
On Sunday, the mother and daughter were standing on the sidewalk at 3rd and Mission when a taxi plowed into them, killing them and injuring a third person — the family's father. "It's just one of those ones that really hits you hard, imagining what this family is going through," Marta Lindsey, a spokesperson for Walk San Francisco, told KCBS Radio.
She said the biggest issue in traffic accidents is speed. "If someone's hit at 20 miles an hour, they have a 90% chance of surviving; when it's 40 miles an hour that almost entirely flips and it's almost 90% chance that they won't survive," she explained.
In an effort to save future lives, Walk SF has called for lower speed limits in the area and San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey has backed state legislation for safety cameras. However, so far, those initiatives have failed.
"I'm still convinced that speed enforcement safety cameras would send a message to people that they're going to be held accountable for violating the law and speeding," Dorsey said. "By and large speeding is the problem, that is the thing that costs lives out there."
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