Two pedestrians were struck by a car Friday afternoon in the Mission District and left with potentially life-threatening injuries, according to police and fire officials at the scene. Four more people were left with minor injuries after the car also struck another oncoming vehicle.
Fire Department Assistant Chief Bill Storti confirmed that six people were transported to the hospital. The two pedestrians were rushed to San Francisco General Hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries, and two people from each vehicle, who sustained comparably minor injuries.
When Mission Local arrived at the scene, the area at 22nd Street and South Van Ness Avenue had been cordoned off with police tape. Shoes and clothes were strewn across the street, and one slipper was on the roof of the colliding car. One of the people from the car that struck the pedestrians was being loaded into a neck brace.
Passengers from the oncoming vehicle that was struck stood on the sidewalk before going into a fire department ambulance…