The Muni bus driver who struck and killed a 23-year-old woman in a Castro District crosswalk last summer has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.

He was arrested Saturday and released on $10,000 bail. His arraignment has been set for Friday.

The operator, identified by authorities as Wallace Loggins, was driving his empty bus to a new a new assignment across town on the afternoon of Aug. 19 when he ran over Emily Dunn.

Dunn had almost reached the curb when the 40-foot bus struck her. Loggins was making a left turn from 18th Street onto Hartford Street, a narrow street with no regular Muni service in a largely residential area.

On-board video surveillance tape showed the driver apparently looking in his side-view mirror and not at what was going on in front of him when Dunn was run over, investigators found. There was no indication that the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

In the previous five years, the annual number of Muni-related fatalities was four or five, with the exception of 2009 when there was one.

The district attorney determined that Loggins, 36, who began driving for Muni last January, was negligent for not seeing Dunn crossing the street.

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