Just 10 streets are responsible for about a third of all vehicle-pedestrian injury crashes in San Francisco — a dynamic that hasn't budged since before the pandemic, an Axios SF analysis of city data shows.

Why it matters: Despite Vision Zero efforts, street redesigns and pandemic-era traffic shifts, pedestrian safety remains a major concern in a city with heavy foot traffic, especially amid a recent string of high-profile pedestrian deaths.

State of play: While traffic fatalities dropped from 43 in 2024 to 25 in 2025, vehicle-pedestrian injury crashes have remained steady over the past five years, about 400–500 annually, with 448 last year.

• These incidents most often involved drivers failing to yield right-of-way at crosswalks, city data shows.
• Axios SF analyzed that data to identify the top 10 corridors, measured by the number of times a street appears in incident reports for pedestrian-involved traffic collisions that result in any injury, minor or severe.

While the specific streets in that top 10 have changed over time, 10 corridors have consistently accounted for about 33-39% of incidents each year from 2019 to 2025.

• Along many of these thoroughfares — such as Sixth and Howard or Sixth and Mission streets, both of which have four vehicle travel lanes — drivers often feel comfortable speeding or running red lights even as pedestrians need more time to cross, according to street safety advocacy group Walk San Francisco.

Zoom in: Pedestrian injuries have declined along stretches of Market Street, Geary Boulevard and Third Street, where the city has spearheaded safety improvements it credits with lowering risk.

• Market Street's decline comes after the city made it car-free in 2020, though it opened to robotaxis and ride app vehicles last August.
• Meanwhile, both Geary and Third have undergone traffic safety improvement upgrades, such as new protected bike lanes and curb extensions that widen the sidewalk into the parking lane.

Yes, but: More pedestrian-involved traffic crashes are occurring on narrower streets with lots of car traffic and pedestrians — such as segments of Eddy and Post that run through the Tenderloin. Eddy and Post have both moved into the top 10 since 2019.

• These streets sit within dense grids, have shorter blocks and often see heavy curbside activity, including loading and double parking outside of dedicated zones.

Between the lines: Street safety involves a confluence of factors, so it's difficult to point to one specific thing as the cause for increases in collisions, said Kate Blumberg, a member of the Livable Streets Committee who led a 2025 civil grand jury report on San Francisco's traffic enforcement failures.

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Meanwhile, a new map released by the city further illustrates the disproportionate number of streets responsible for traffic collisions in SF.

By the numbers: 13% of San Francisco streets are now responsible for 74% of the city's worst crashes, per the updated High-Injury Network (HIN).

How it works: While our above analysis focuses on traffic collisions that specifically involve vehicles and pedestrians, the HIN (last updated in 2022) highlights hot spots for any crash that leads to severe injuries or fatalities.

• That's regardless of whether they're a pedestrian, driver or cyclist.

Street segments newly defined as high-risk include:

• Ocean and Mission
• Portola Street
• The strip of Stanyan north of Fulton
• The Embarcadero between Howard Street and Pier 40
• The west side of Geary Boulevard

Yes, but: Street safety improvements across 34 locations led to pedestrian-vehicle close calls falling by nearly half on average, while vehicle collisions with pedestrians dropped by 32%, per the mayor's office.

Some corridors are no longer on the HIN as a result, including:

• California Street between 18th Avenue and Arguello Boulevard.
• Seventh Street between Harrison and Townsend.
• Townsend Street between Third and Eighth streets.

What's next: San Francisco police will prioritize traffic enforcement in regular patrol activity based on HIN locations, the mayor's office said.

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When there's a tragic incident or a crash, there's a little bit of lip service paid to it. But ... the sheer number of deaths that we've seen in such a short amount of time in the last few weeks, I hope that it's made the problem impossible to ignore.

—Harrison Anderson

When he first read about the two-year-old who died in a recent traffic collision earlier this month, Harrison Anderson was shaken by how easily it could have been him and his four-year-old son.

• He decided to channel his grief by walking 50 miles in one day as part of a fundraiser for street safety efforts.

Anderson told Axios he hopes people will continue to increase pressure on local leaders to "actually take action" and protect pedestrians.