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A female pedestrian was hit by a vehicle in a crosswalk Thursday afternoon as she tried to make her way across a dangerous stretch of roadway in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, police said.

The 20-year-old woman, who authorities have not identified, was hit at 2:38 p.m. as she crossed Sunset Boulevard westbound at Yorba Street, said Sgt. Danielle Newman, a San Francisco police spokeswoman.

The woman was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with serious injuries, according to a San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman.

The 25-year-old woman behind the wheel of the northbound vehicle remained at the scene and was cited by police for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

In February at the same intersection, a 15-year-old boy was hit and a 78-year-old man, Isaak Berenzon, was struck and killed. The 71-year-old driver who hit Berenzon was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.

Between 2005 and 2011, 44 pedestrians were struck on Sunset Boulevard, according to city records.

City officials identified the dangerous section of roadway as one of the San Francisco’s “high-injury trouble areas” and have sought to make the busy six-lane thoroughfare safer.

Pedestrian advocates say the boulevard’s lack of traffic signals at every intersection and overall design invite freeway-like habits from the 35,000 drivers that head down Sunset every day.

In February, Paul Rose, a spokesman for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said Yorba Street would get a traffic signal by the end of 2015.

Currently, a three-block stretch from Sloat Boulevard to Vicente Street is signal-free, except for a pedestrian crossing at Yorba that flashes a yellow light warning drivers to slow down when a pedestrian pushes a button to walk.

According to data provided by San Francisco police, about a quarter of the pedestrians injured on Sunset from 2005 to 2011 were hit on this three-block stretch.