People gathered at San Francisco City Hall for the 11th annual World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims. The day honors the millions of individuals hurt and killed in traffic crashes each year.
WalkSF organized the event, where they read off the names of each of the 348 people killed in traffic crashes in San Francisco since 2014.
Around 5,000 more have been severely injured, including John Lowell.
"I had traumatic brain injury and polytrauma injuries, fractures all over me," Lowell said.
He was hit by a car while walking in a crosswalk back in 2001.
"That event turned me into an inpatient for over a year," he said. "I was an inpatient at six medical facilities in the city."
It changed his life forever.
"Memories are gone and it took a diagnosis and a prescription by a neurologi

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