This morning, Wednesday May 25, pedestrians and killed by a vehicle at the corner of Pierce and Lombard Street in San Francisco's Marina district. San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield saw the 30-year-old driver, not the pedestrian before the collision place found, but was not shown, driving under the influence of alcohol. This tragic death follows a string of pedestrian accidents to Masonic Avenue, which led to the improvement of pedestrian safety along this road plan $20 million, and stressed the need for additional pedestrian safety plans in San Francisco.

A new report by transportation for America, a coalition of the planning and transit groups, found that pedestrian accidents more than four times the national average include more than 50 percent of the entire San of Francisco's people killed,. That's terrible record, and the city of San Francisco serious steps should to make roads safer. "The report points out that in San Francisco, as in the entire County, arterial roads are deadly, kills speed and relatively low investments in the pedestrian zone make improvements on our roads neighborhoods in our city of safer, more pleasant places to walk" said Elizabeth Stampe, executive Director of the pedestrian safety organization WalkSF.

Part of the problem is San Francisco's high number of wide streets, which easily brings exceeding speed limits, drivers often pedestrians at risk makes sense. Implementation of plans such as Masonic Avenue Boulevard plan to reduce speeds in the city also their price value would be if it pedestrian accidents like the one this morning in the Lombard and Pierce streets in the Marina reduced.

Visit the report "Dangerous by design" for details about San Francisco pedestrian accidents and road safety statistics nationwide.

UPDATE: The San Francisco Police Department announced that the victims of this morning in the Marina district hard not killed than initially reported injured in accident pedestrians.

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