Another Ingleside street has been added to the list of San Francisco streets where the most severe and fatal traffic crashes happen.
Ingleside Avenue was added to the latest High Injury Network map, the 13% of city streets where most crashes occur, largely because of a high-profile crash in November 2024 that caused multiple fatalities and injuries.
A suspected driver under the influence crashed into another vehicle on Jules and Grafton avenues. Two women in one vehicle had life-threatening injuries but died at the scene. The crash left three others injured who were in the suspect’s vehicle.
While the intersection of Jules and Ocean avenues had long been on the High Injury Network map, the stretch from Ocean to Lakeview avenues was recently added.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesperson Erica Kato said that new streets added to the map had met the criteria of having 10 more people severely injured or killed from 2020 to 2024. The new map is a guide for the transportation agency to know where work is still needed to improve traffic safety.
Staff with the Office of District 11 Supervisor Chayanne Chen said that, based on city data from 2020-2024, there had been seven traffic crashes with injuries at the intersection of Ocean and Jules avenues. Two crashes involved pedestrians.
“Supervisor Chen is very concerned about traffic safety and continues to work closely with the SFMTA and our communities to advocate for traffic calming investments and solutions to the District,” said Charlie Sciammas, one of Chen’s legislative aides.
The Light asked Kato what, if any, traffic safety measures are being proposed for Jules Avenue. Kato did not provide any specific projects planned for Jules Avenue, but said the transportation agency will look at the crash pattern data and identify potential solutions.
As part of the controversial K Ingleside Rapid Project, the SFMTA prohibited left turns onto Jules Avenue from Ocean Avenue to address crashes at the intersection.
Sciammas said that the SFMTA installed a speed cushion at Jules Avenue between Grafton and Holloway avenues as part of the agency’s Residential Traffic Calming Program.
Kato said that the SFMTA “has identified a set of priority community benefit quick-build projects to address safety and connectivity needs across San Francisco.” It’s not clear yet if Jules Avenue is part of the list of quick-build projects, but Kato said the transportation agency will release more information on where the projects will take place, but gave no specific timeframe.
The release of the new map and the SFMTA's task to identify quick-build projects are part of an executive order from Mayor Daniel Lurie signed last December called the Street Safety Initiative, a list of actions city departments, including the transportation agency, police and public health department, are to complete within a certain time period.
Part of the initiative also called for the police to maintain monthly visible traffic enforcement on streets listed on the High Injury Network map.
The Light reported last month that half a dozen police officers on motorcycles were pulling drivers over for speeding on Ocean Avenue near the intersections of Granada and Miramar. Ingleside’s Ocean Avenue has long been on the map as one of the street corridors with a high number of severe and fatal traffic crashes.
