Driver abandons car inside Muni subway tunnel, shutting Market Street trains overnight
Muni Metro was shut between Van Ness and Embarcadero Saturday night for repairs. Service resumed Sunday morning; police are investigating a hit-and-run.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
A BART Fleet of the Future train at Coliseum station. Photo: Insightwm / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
A car drove into the Muni Metro tunnel near Folsom Street and The Embarcadero on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 24, and the driver fled on foot, San Francisco police said, shutting down Market Street subway service overnight.
Why it matters: The Market Street subway is Muni Metro's downtown spine. Trains were halted for the rest of Saturday evening.
What happened
Officers arrived at the tunnel entrance at 3:46 p.m. and found the car inside, with damage to city property, Mission Local reported. Police are treating it as a hit-and-run.
Muni closed the line around 5:40 p.m. for overnight inspections and repairs, KTVU reported. No injuries were reported.
Now
Muni said repairs were finished and normal service resumed Sunday morning.
Sources
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