This week’s question comes from Angela T., who asks, “A Yellow Cab crashed into a group of pedestrians in front of my office the other day at Sansome and Sutter streets in the Financial District. It was terrible. The cab jumped the curb and smashed into pedestrians and a newsstand causing massive injuries. Who is responsible: Is it the driver, taxi company, owner of the newsstand or The City?”
Three people have been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after aYellow Cab Cooperative taxi cab crashed into a newsstand on a sidewalk in San Francisco’s Financial District at 3:15 p.m. today, according to local news reports. For an unknown reason, the taxi cab left the roadway at Sansome and Sutter Streets, sped across the sidewalk, plowed through a newsstand and a shoe-shine stand, and struck two pedestrians. The taxi driver also suffered critical injuries.