Car rams into bus shelter in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 10 people hurt
A car plowed into a bus shelter in San Francisco’s Chinatown on Friday during lunchtime, injuring 10 people — two of them critically, authorities said.
Police spokeswoman Giselle Talkoff said the crash happened at about 12:30 p.m. on a street in Chinatown that is lined with restaurants and small retail shops.
Witnesses reported a chaotic scene, with at least one of the injured bleeding profusely.
Shattered glass covered the sidewalk at the site of the crash, which caused part of the bus shelter at the stop to collapse.
It was not immediately known what caused the driver to lose control and crash into the bus shelter, Talkoff said. The driver was among the 10 injured, she said.
Two of the injured were being treated for life-threatening injuries.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who represents Chinatown, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he saw bleeding victims.
One was bleeding profusely in what Peskin described as a “pretty horrific scene.”
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