Kamala Harris hit a 13-year-old girl with a car and left the crime scene

Angeliki Papadimitriou
Τετάρτη, 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2025

Angeliki Papadimitriou
Τετάρτη, 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2025

Ο ισχυρισμός

In June 2011, Kamala Harris was driving a car when she hit two pedestrians and left the scene of the incident in San Francisco.

One of the victims, Alisha Brown, decided to make the story public. She explains that after the accident, Harris’s people threatened her mother so that she would not report the incident to the police.

It was only after the death of her mother, 13 years later Alisha decided to tell this story.

Η έρευνά μας

After the research was completed, using the “Text Analysis” fact checker, we came to the conclusion that the article “Kamala Harris hit a 13-year-old girl with a car and left the crime scene” claimed to be false. This rumor was spread by a mysterious website called KBSF-TV, which published a baseless story on September 2, 2024, alleging that Harris was involved in a hit-and-run incident that left a 13-year-old girl paralyzed.

The story was widely shared online, with some right-leaning users citing it and garnering millions of views. However, no evidence of the incident occurring or Harris’s involvement was provided, and searches for press reports from 2011 about such an incident yielded none.

Additionally, the San Francisco police department and Harris’s campaign were contacted, but no credible information supporting the claim was found. The woman featured in the video, who claimed to be a victim, was referred to as both Alisha and Alicia Brown, but her identity could not be verified.

According to the BBC, a website called KBSF-San Francisco News published the story on September 2, but the domain was registered only a few weeks prior, on August 20, 2024, and there is no public record of a KBSF news outlet in San Francisco. The story was also shared by right-leaning users and viewed millions of times, but there is no evidence to support the claim, and the website has since been taken offline. Additionally, the following sources describe the claim as baseless and part of a hoax:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sham-news-site-false-claim-kamala-harris-car-accident/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4ye15le8xo
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2493714/kamala-harris-accused-of-hit-and-run-in-viral-hoax
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reports-implicating-kamala-harris-2011-233400447.html

Συμπέρασμα

In conclusion, the claim that Kamala Harris was involved in a car accident with a pedestrian named Alisha Brown is not true. Investigations by reliable media outlets have shown that the story came from an untrustworthy and newly created website with no real ties to San Francisco journalism. The lack of credible evidence, no official records, and the quick spread of the story mostly through partisan social media channels indicate a deliberate hoax. As confirmed by several trusted news organizations, this false narrative underscores the need to check sources and depend on established media when assessing sensational claims.

The fact-checking was completed by Angeliki Papadimitriou & Agapi-Elpida Pachatouridou