A general view of the Golden Gate Bridge on Nov. 25, 2025, in Sausalito, Calif. 

As the year winds down and thousands of people across the Bay Area prepare to hit the road for holiday travel, San Francisco’s most iconic bridge is about to log the highest number of crashes it’s experienced in six years. 

Fifty crashes have occurred at the barriers in front of the Golden Gate Bridge’s empty tollbooths so far this year, Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz, director of the Golden Gate Bridge District, confirmed with SFGATE this week. It’s the highest number of crashes since 2018, when 33 occurred on the southbound lanes of the city landmark, though the highest recent tally was 40 crashes in 2022. Notably, the last record was set when millions more drivers were crossing the bridge, as the San Francisco Chronicle first reported, and over the past few months, the crashes have been playing out on a near-weekly basis. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but........

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