Dashcam video shows violent Western Addition crash injuring four people

A dashcam caught the moment a three-wheeled vehicle hit an Audi at Baker and Hayes, sending a passenger airborne in San Francisco’s Western Addition and leaving four people hospitalized. The crash, near the Panhandle, turned a neighborhood intersection into a scene of violent impact that investigators are still piecing together.

The collision happened at Baker Street and Hayes Street, where the footage showed a routine-looking city corner becoming dangerous in an instant. ABC7 reported that the video captured a man being thrown into the air after he was ejected from the three-wheeled vehicle as it T-boned the other car. SFist said the Audi allegedly ran a red light, though the exact sequence of events remained under investigation.

Four people were taken to hospitals with injuries described as minor to moderate. Even with that medical assessment, the crash was far from a simple fender-bender. The force was strong enough to hurl a passenger out of the vehicle and injure more than one person, including at least one pedestrian.

Reposted captions identified the three-wheeled vehicle as an Arcimoto FUV, an electric, motorcycle-class three-wheeler built for on-road use. Arcimoto’s own materials describe the FUV as a three-wheeled electric vehicle with a 75 mph top speed, a detail that helps explain how severe the impact could be when a vehicle like that collides with another car in dense city traffic.

The San Francisco Police Department was investigating the crash. The location, just north of the Panhandle in the Western Addition, adds to a long-running concern for residents who already see the corridor as one where drivers move too fast and signal violations can have immediate consequences.

San Francisco’s open-data system tracks injury crashes through a Vision Zero-related traffic-collision database, underscoring how collisions like this are meant to be counted, reviewed and used in future safety work. In a city where pedestrians, cyclists and people waiting to cross share tight space with drivers, the footage from Baker and Hayes serves as a blunt reminder that one bad decision at an intersection can spill harm far beyond the vehicles involved.