Crime & Safety

Pedestrian Critically Injured By Hit-and-Run Driver, Police Say

The woman was walking in the Haight District when she was hit.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Police are seeking the driver a car that struck a woman this morning in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood, sending her to the hospital with critical injuries.

Around 12:45 a.m., a black older model Lincoln Town Car was traveling east on Haight Street at Masonic Street, according to police.

The car then struck the victim, a 30-year-old woman, as she was walking. The vehicle then fled, continuing east on Haight Street, police said.

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The victim was taken to a hospital and is in critical condition, according to police.

A description of the driver was not immediately available.

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--Bay City News