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Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree
SFGATE ^ | 8/29/06 | Jackson Van Derbeken
Posted on 08/29/2006 3:34:48 PM PDT by SF Republican
(08-29) 15:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said.
Seven of those injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said.
Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Ohmeed Aziz Popal, who has an address in Ceres.
Authorities said they believe Popal was the same driver who ran over a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont, at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane, just after noon. That victim died.
Popal was arrested at a Walgreens at Spruce and California streets.
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SF Hit & Run Spree May be Tied to Fremont
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Posted August 29, 2006 at 1:40 p.m.
Updated August 29, 2006 at 3:20 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A Fremont man is in custody after police say he drove his SUV into numerous pedestrians in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon.
The Associated Press says the vehicle involved is registered to Omeed A. Popal of Fremont. San Francisco Police spokesman Neville Gittings says the spree started at Sutter and Webster. Witnesses say the SUV appeared to intentionally target pedestrians and people on bicycles.
Paramedics took at least eleven people to area hospitals. Investigators say it appears other victims may have walked themselves to the emergency room. There are at least a dozen different accident locations including:
Sutter at Webster
Bush at Divisidero
Sutter at Steiner
California at Laurel
California at Fillmore
Fillmore at Pine
Bush at Pierce
1850 Fillmore
Filmorre at Bush
Spruce at California
3250 California.
Gittings says San Francisco Police are talking with Fremont police about another hit and run accident reported Tuesday morning in the East Bay community. The victim in that wreck has died. Police are looking into possible connections between the two sets of crimes.
Three people in San Francisco suffered life-threatening injuries. They were all taken to San Francisco General Hospital.
KRON 4 has numerous video journalists covering this developing story. Tune in for complete coverage throughout the day and evening.
(Copyright 2006, KRON 4, All rights reserved.)
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/29/BAGAEKRCO55.DTL
"Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree
7 critical; driver believed to have struck, killed a man in Fremont earlier"
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Steve Rubenstein and Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 29, 2006