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Julie Nicholson smiles while running a half marathon marking the anniversary of her pedestrian crash on a slow street closed to car traffic in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, March 14, 2021. KNIGHT0317Photos by Marissa Leshnov / Special to The Chronicle
On Sunday, Julie Nicholson ran for the first time through the spot in the Panhandle where a car had nearly killed her.
She was jogging on Jan. 4 last year when a car speeding north on Masonic Avenue blew through a red light, hit another car and careened into the park straight at her. She flew 30 feet, landing with a thud. She assumed she was seconds from death but remembers thinking, “OK, I lived.”