Feb 15, 2008 11:11 pm US/Pacific
Woman On Scooter Severely Hurt In SF Crash
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) ―
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This picture from a CBS 5 viewer shows the scene of the scooter accident at 21st Street and Van Ness Avenue Thursday morning. The 24-year-old woman who was riding the scooter was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Thomas Hayden
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A closer look at the damaged scooter.
Thomas Hayden
A 24-year-old San Francisco woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Thursday after the motor scooter she was riding was struck by a vehicle at a Mission District intersection, police reported Friday.
The crash occurred shortly before 9 a.m. at the intersection of 21st Street and South Van Ness Avenue, according to police spokesman Sgt. Steve Mannina.
The woman was driving a 2007 Vespa northbound on South Van Ness Avenue when the driver of a 1994 Honda Accord, which was traveling southbound, tried to make a left turn onto 21st Street and struck the Vespa, according to Mannina.
The Accord then struck two other cars on 21st Street, Mannina said. One of those cars was pushed backward into a fifth car, he added.
The woman on the Vespa was taken to San Francisco General Hospital. An update on her condition was not immediately available, according to police.
The driver of the Accord, Hosue Morales-Ocarte, 21, of Oakland, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving on a suspended license, and also an infraction, failure to yield the right-of-way while making a turn, according to Mannina. He was cited and released.
No others were injured in the crash.
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