A 74‑year‑old San Francisco resident, Dannielle Spillman, was killed Monday afternoon in a hit‑and‑run collision in the city’s South of Market neighborhood. The incident occurred on April 13, 2026, at the busy intersection of Mission Street and South Van Ness Boulevard, an area known for heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
San Francisco police said the collision happened at approximately 3:23 p.m., when a 30‑year‑old San Francisco man driving a vehicle struck Spillman in the crosswalk area. First responders arrived within minutes, but Spillman was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver fled immediately after the impact, leaving the victim in the roadway. Officers began canvassing the area, reviewing surveillance footage from nearby businesses and traffic cameras to identify the suspect vehicle. The department’s real‑time crime center assisted in tracking the car’s movements after it left the intersection.
Investigators later located the suspect vehicle using a combination of surveillance video and license plate readers, which helped officers determine the car’s direction of travel. The driver was found shortly afterward and taken into custody without incident.
Police confirmed that the suspect was booked into jail on charges including homicide and felony hit‑and‑run causing injury. Authorities noted that the case is being treated as a homicide due to the circumstances of the collision and the driver’s decision to flee the scene.
Spillman’s death marks another fatality in a year where San Francisco continues to struggle with pedestrian safety in high‑traffic corridors. The investigation remains ongoing as detectives work to determine additional details surrounding the driver’s actions before and after the crash.