SFPD Pursuit of Stolen Vehicle Crashes Near Pine and Divisadero, Injures Driver

An SFPD cruiser collided with an uninvolved car in the 2700 block of Pine Street near Divisadero, injuring the other driver and sending them to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The pursuit began just after 7:20 a.m., according to a department statement, when officers patrolling near Geary Boulevard and St. Joseph’s Avenue at the edge of the Anza Vista neighborhood spotted a reported stolen vehicle.

“The officers tried to stop the car, but it failed to yield and led officers on a chase,” the department statement says, with the pursuit moving from the Geary and St. Joseph’s area toward Lower Pacific Heights. “The pursuing police car and an uninvolved vehicle crashed in the 2700 block of Pine Street, and authorities lost the suspect car at the road’s intersection with Divisadero Street,” according to the same account.

KTVU and Yahoo report that medics evaluated two officers and the driver of the uninvolved vehicle at the scene. “The two officers and the driver of the other vehicle were evaluated by medics at the scene, and the driver of the other car was taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries,” the reporting says. SFist and ABC7 note the injured driver is expected to be okay and that the SFPD officers suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.

Authorities later recovered the stolen car unoccupied in Oakland. “Police later found the stolen car unoccupied in Oakland,” the SFPD statement and subsequent reporting say, and KTVU and Yahoo add that “no arrests were made in connection with the vehicle theft or the pursuit.” An Instagram post fragment circulated on social media claiming the chase “Ends With Arrests,” but the department statement and KTVU reporting say no arrests were made.

The collision occurred at a busy stretch where Pine, Divisadero and Lower Pacific Heights meet; the exact point described across reports is the 2700 block of Pine and the road’s intersection with Divisadero Street. Timing in coverage shows officers first spotted the vehicle “just after 7:20 a.m., according to a department statement,” while SFist places the crash “around 7:30 a.m.,” a timeline consistent with a short pursuit across those neighborhoods.

SFist places the crash in broader Bay Area context, noting “there has been significant uproar in the last several years about the justification for police chases, particularly when they do not stem from violent crimes.” SFist cites prior high-profile cases, including the 2022 death of 28-year-old Lolomanaia “Lolo” Soakai of Hayward after a suspect being chased crashed into parked cars on International Boulevard and a May chase by the California Highway Patrol across Oakland that ended in a hit-and-run fatality of a high school math teacher.

At this point the SFPD department statement remains the primary source for the timeline, the scene response and the status of arrests. Details still to be confirmed include the exact crash coordinates within the 2700 block, the hospital where the injured driver was taken, and whether investigators will open an internal review of the pursuit under department policy.