Iyow - in your own words

This is a few days old, but we had a freak car accident-turned-gas-leak-turned-explosion on San Francisco’s Castro Street last Thursday. One of the car’s passengers died, but given the wreckage, it could have been much, much worse. The saving grace was that a charity event, Dining Out for Life, occupied many people indoors, who normally would’ve been outdoors.

The photo above was taken by a long-time Noe Valley resident friend of ours on the street just minutes after the firemen arrived. This sort of stuff really does not happen often here. We do have more than our share of car accidents – thanks to spacey drivers/bicyclists/pedestrians and byzantine street signs – but it was the gas leak that created the horrific factor.