Taxi jumps curb in San Francisco, 3 suffer critical injuries

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San Francisco Police Officer Grace Gatpandan, right, stands by the scene of a taxi crash in downtown San Francisco Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. SFPD Officer Gatpandan says three people are critically injured Tuesday, after a taxi jumped a curb and plowed into an advertising kiosk and a shoe shine stand at a busy corner in downtown San Francisco. The taxi driver and two people who were at the shoe shine stand were rushed to a hospital with life threatening injuries. (AP Photo/Paul J. Elias)

SAN FRANCISCO – A cab driver and two other people suffered critical injuries when the taxi jumped a curb and plowed into an advertising kiosk and a shoeshine stand at a busy corner in downtown San Francisco.

Police officer Grace Gatpandan said the three were rushed to San Francisco General hospital with life-threatening injuries after Tuesday’s crash in the city’s Financial District.

“The cab came barrelling down Market Street, hit the newspaper stand and then the next thing I saw was the old man flying over the shoeshine stand,” Susan Giammona, who sells shawls and scarves near the crash site, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Officials initially said the taxi had crashed into a public toilet but later said it hit an advertising kiosk.

Police are investigating what caused the accident.

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