"I live right here and I feel like I'm risking my life crossing that intersection daily. We just hear people honking all the time. It's a busy area. You got the trains. People riding their bikes. There's a hill right here. So people come fast down it."
"Seventh Avenue is a thoroughfare with heavy car traffic that connects the Inner Sunset to the south and east of the city. On Irving Street, there are train tracks, N-Judah trains and double-parked loading trucks or cars picking up food from nearby restaurants. There are no designated bike lanes on either street, and cyclists share the road with motor vehicle traffic."
"The cyclist, who had a helmet on, was caught between a huge U.S. Foods truck parked in the right lane while unloading, and a dump truck trying to go around it on the left."
A cyclist was struck by a dump truck at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Irving Street in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood, sustaining life-threatening injuries including severe leg trauma. The cyclist was caught between a parked U.S. Foods truck and the dump truck attempting to pass it. Residents and business owners describe the intersection as consistently dangerous, with heavy vehicle traffic, train tracks, double-parked delivery trucks, and no designated bike lanes. Multiple witnesses report daily close calls and dangerous driving conditions at this location. The cyclist survived but remains in recovery.
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