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   buttfucker San Francisco though.   
      
   Two bicyclists killed in separate hit-and-run crashes in San   
   Francisco within 2½ hours of each other left Mayor Ed Lee   
   outraged Thursday after he leaned from police that both deaths   
   were preventable.   
      
   Lee said the city’s tireless work and the millions of dollars   
   it’s spent to make streets safer was undermined by the   
   “incredibly irresponsible actions” of the drivers involved in   
   both incidents Wednesday.   
      
   “We are simply outraged. These aren’t accidents. They are   
   tragedies that can be prevented,” the mayor said at a news   
   conference. “I say this with a lot of emotion because we have   
   been trying very hard with all of our community groups to make   
   our streets safer.”   
      
   Heather Miller, 41, of San Francisco was killed after a man   
   driving a stolen car sped into oncoming traffic and struck her   
   as she rode her bicycle on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. In the   
   second incident, the driver of a sport utility vehicle sped   
   through a red light at a busy intersection in the city’s South   
   of Market neighborhood and struck and killed bicyclist Katherine   
   Slattery, 26, also of San Francisco.   
      
   Ed Reiskin, director of the city’s Municipal Transportation   
   Agency, echoed Lee’s remarks. He said that about 30 people are   
   killed on city streets each year in incidents such as the two   
   Wednesday and that they are very much preventable.   
      
   “We have more violence perpetrated by cars in this city than   
   guns,” Reiskin said. “When we get behind the wheel, we have to   
   understand the awesome responsibility we have to operate it   
   safely.”   
      
   Miller was killed around 6 p.m. Wednesday while bicycling east   
   on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. Police said a man driving a   
   stolen white Honda in the westbound direction hit her when he   
   veered into the opposite lane while attempting to speed around   
   slower cars.   
      
   The driver of the Honda fled the scene, officials said. The   
   vehicle was later found abandoned at the Anglers Lodge in Golden   
   Gate Park. Authorities said that the car had been reported   
   stolen and that they are in communication with the registered   
   owner. They were still searching for a suspect Thursday   
   afternoon.   
      
   Just before 8:30 p.m., Slattery was killed when a man in a black   
   BMW SUV headed west on Howard Street sped through a red light   
   and struck her as she was pedaling north on Seventh Street,   
   police said.   
      
   That driver continued on to a gas station at Ninth and Howard   
   streets, where he stopped and got out of his car, which   
   continued to roll into an unoccupied parked vehicle, officials   
   said.   
      
   A citizen spotted the driver and made him stay at the scene   
   until police arrived and took him into custody. Officials do not   
   believe drugs or alcohol were involved. The driver, whom police   
   identified as 32-year-old Farrukh Mushtaq of San Francisco, ,   
   was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and vehicular   
   manslaughter with gross negligence.   
      
   Another traffic incident occurred on San Francisco streets   
   Thursday morning. A Muni 30-Stockton bus struck a woman near   
   Ninth and Market streets just after 8:30 a.m., said Paul Rose, a   
   spokesman for the Municipal Transportation Agency. The woman,   
   who was not identified, was taken to a local hospital with non-   
   life-threatening injuries.   
      
   Traffic incidents regularly occur on city streets despite   
   initiatives that have sprung up in recent years to make the   
   streets safer, including San Francisco’s Vision Zero plan, a   
   broad effort to to cut traffic-related fatalities to zero in the   
   city by 2024.   
      
   Reiskin said the recent incidents highlight the importance of   
   everyone in the city working toward that effort.   
      
   “This is everybody’s responsibility,” Reiskin said, calling the   
   the deaths “horrible and tragic reminders of all that needs to   
   be done.”   
      
   http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Two-bicyclists-killed-in-   
   separate-SF-hit-and-run-8321105.php   
        
      
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