Traffic officer’s vehicle flips over in tunnel
By: Will Reisman
Examiner Staff Writer
April 3, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — A parking-control officer was hospitalized and traffic halted for about an hour Thursday afternoon when a city worker’s light-weight vehicle flipped over in The City’s Broadway Tunnel.
A female employee with the Department of Parking and Traffic was traveling in a Cushman — the small vehicles driven by parking-control officers — when she lost control and overturned at 10:45 a.m., according to police Sgt. Wilfred Williams. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, he said.
The woman was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with injuries not considered life threatening, Williams said.
Emergency crews cleared the scene, but eastbound traffic coming into the tunnel — which connects Broadway to Powell and Larkin streets — was blocked, according to Williams. The tunnel was eventually cleared for two-way traffic at 11:45 a.m.
The Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees the parking department, is still assessing damage to the Cushman, according to transit agency spokesman Judson True.
