Last week, a man was fatally struck by a vehicle in San Francisco, identified as a 35-year-old man

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SAN FRANCISCO – The city medical examiner’s office has identified the man who was fatally struck by a vehicle in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood last week as 35-year-old Jonathan Chase Johnson.

Officers arrived at 7:01 a.m. Friday to the area of ​​Geary Boulevard and Divisadero Street, where the collision occurred. Paramedics took Johnson, a San Francisco resident, to the hospital, but he died the same day from his injuries.

San Francisco police said the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene after the collision.

There was a sacrifice apparently he was a bartender at Zeitgest and worked with Overkill Grill, which has a kitchen at Bender’s Bar & Grill in San Francisco’s Mission District. Zeitgeist did not comment on this story when KTVU reached by phone. An employee at Bender’s told KTVU Johnson worked the door at their bar.

Non-profit organization promoting pedestrian safety A walk around San Francisco said it was the city’s second pedestrian accident in less than a week and second pedestrian accident on Geary Boulevard in the last month, following a collision that killed a 94-year-old man at Geary Boulevard and 25th Avenue in early October.

So far in 2024, 21 pedestrians have been killed in San Francisco, up from the 18 that occurred in all of 2023, the group said.

“Walking through our city should not be a matter of life and death,” Walk SF executive director Jodie Medeiros said in a statement. “We call on every city leader and political candidate to prioritize safe streets today and every day. Road safety affects everyone, and the city can and must do much more to protect us all.”

KTVU contributed to this report.