a unique approach to dealing with one of the bay area s most common crimes. the new pitch in one city to pay back the victims. now at 11, streaming on cbsn bay area , a new witness of the chaos in san francisco s mission district this afternoon. a driver slams into three pedestrians. kpix s joe vasquez s live in the mission for us. reporter: right now traffic is back to normal on mission street. but for much of the evening it was blocked off between 22nd and 24th following a series of crashes that started around 4:30 this afternoon. the cell phone video shows the chaos, victims sprawled out on the street, in very bad shape after they were runover by a toyota prius. it happened in front of crowds of people along mission street. some witnesses got emotional. i saw the accident or the come really close to me. so i thought when that happened. it looks really bad. reporter: police say the prius ran a red light and sped through a right turn from 23rd on the mission street,
a unique approach to dealing with one of the bay area s most common crimes. the new pitch in one city to pay back the victims. now at 11, streaming on cbsn bay area , a new witness of the chaos in san francisco s mission district this afternoon. a driver slams into three pedestrians. kpix s joe vasquez s live in the mission for us. reporter: right now traffic is back to normal on mission street. but for much of the evening it was blocked off between 22nd and 24th following a series of crashes that started around 4:30 this afternoon. the cell phone video shows the chaos, victims sprawled out on the street, in very bad shape after they were runover by a toyota prius. it happened in front of crowds of people along mission street. some witnesses got emotional. i saw the accident or the come really close to me. so i thought when that happened. it looks really bad. reporter: police say the prius ran a red light and sped through a right turn from 23rd on the mission street,