Driver arrested for DUI after plowing into boys in Marina crosswalk

Two 12-year-old boys walking to school early Wednesday in San Francisco’s Marina neighborhood were struck in a crosswalk by a suspected drunken driver and taken to a hospital with serious injuries, police said.

The driver of the sport utility vehicle, identified as 30-year-old San Francisco resident Kirsten Andereck, was placed in handcuffs at the scene and taken away in the back of a police cruiser.

Andereck slammed into the boys, who were expected to survive and were not identified, at Bay and Buchanan streets just before 8:30 a.m., Esparza said.

A semitrailer hauling ice cream in the westbound lane of Bay Street had stopped for the two boys, who were walking directly in front of the rig, he said.

“There’s a provision that requires you to stop and determine why another vehicle is stopped,” the captain said at the scene, where piles of clothes, a backpack, three shoes and a sock were visible about 25 feet from where the boys were struck.

Police did not elaborate on what led them to arrest Andereck, whose address is listed in the opulent Sea Cliff neighborhood.

The school was providing counselors on the campus to meet with students, San Francisco Unified School District officials said.