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Pedestrian Killed In San Francisco ID'd
The elderly woman was crossing the street at 8:45 Wednesday morning when she was hit.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The San Francisco medical examiner has identified a woman who was killed following a collision Wednesday morning in the city's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Galina Alterman, 77, of San Francisco, suffered life-threatening injuries when a vehicle struck her at Sutter and Divisadero streets, near the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center at Mount Zion, police said.
The collision was reported at about 8:45 a.m.
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A 32-year-old man driving the vehicle made a turn at the intersection and struck Alterman as she crossed the street, according to police.
Alterman was taken to a hospital and died Thursday.
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The driver stopped at the scene and was not arrested, police said.San Francisco Supervisor Vallie Brown posted on Twitter Thursday that she is "deeply disturbed by the death of Galina Alterman."
Brown said Alterman's death is the 12th this year in the city from "vehicle violence" and "is unacceptable."
Brown demanded that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency move faster to achieve zero traffic fatalities and demanded police increase enforcement.
Ed Reiskin, director of transportation for the SFMTA, will step down amid problems such a shortage of drivers for the San Francisco Municipal Railway, a division of the SFMTA.
— Bay City News
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