94-year-old man hit, killed by car in SF's Richmond District identified

SAN FRANCISCO -- A 94-year-old man who died days after being hit by a vehicle in San Francisco's Richmond District last week has been identified by the city's Medical Examiner's Office.

Hou Chun Lai, a San Francisco resident, died last Friday following the collision on Oct. 2 at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 25th Avenue.

San Francisco police did not respond to a request for more information about the collision but the pedestrian safety advocacy organization Walk San Francisco on Tuesday said they learned about the fatality from police.

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"We are heartbroken to learn about this loss of life. We are holding the victim and their loved ones in our thoughts," Walk SF executive director Jodie Medeiros said in a statement.

The organization said the case was San Francisco's 18th traffic-related pedestrian death in 2024 and that much of Geary Boulevard is on the city's "high-injury network" of about 12% of streets where more than two-thirds of its traffic collisions occur.