By Zusha Elinson, Bay Citizen
As San Francisco implements new measures to improve pedestrian safety, the number of pedestrians killed this year is on pace to surpass the death toll from each of the two previous years.
There have been 10 pedestrian fatalities this year, according to the San Francisco Police Department. There were 17 such fatalities last year and 15 in 2010.
Since 2008, San Francisco has averaged 17 pedestrian deaths a year. For the past two years, there have been more than 800 pedestrian collisions a year.
