A man identified as a 35-year-old man was fatally struck by a car in San Francisco last week

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

Police responded 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 a hospital, but he died of his injuries later that day.

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

There was a victim reported bartended at Zeitgest and partnered with Overkill Grill, which has a kitchen at Bender’s Bar & Grill in San Francisco’s Mission District. Zeitgeist had no comment for this story when reached by phone by KTVU. An employee at Bender’s told KTVU that Johnson opened the door at the bar.

Non-profit organization for the protection of pedestrian safety Walking San Francisco said it was the second pedestrian fatality in the city in less than a week and the second pedestrian fatality on Geary Boulevard in the past month, following a collision that killed a 94-year-old man at Geary Boulevard and 25th Avenue in early October. .

San Francisco recorded 21 pedestrian deaths in 2024, up from 18 for all of 2023, the group said.

“Walking in our city should not be a matter of life or death,” said Walk SF Executive Director Jodi Medeiros. “We call on every city leader and every political candidate to prioritize safe streets today — and every day. Road safety affects everyone and the city can and must do much more to keep us all safe.”

KTVU contributed to this report.