A San Francisco woman has died after a driver struck her with a car in the Tenderloin, her friends said.

A driver struck 58-year-old Janice Higashi on March 5 as she was walking in a crosswalk at Leavenworth Street near Golden Gate Avenue. Higashi had been on her lunch break during jury duty, her friends said.

The 36-year-old driver, who was not identified by police, stayed on the scene. It is unclear whether the driver will face charges. Police did not respond to requests for comment.

First responders took Higashi to San Francisco General Hospital with major head injuries, where she died Sunday.

“She never really woke up after she was hit,” said Jo Ellen Kaiser, one of Higashi’s friends.

Friends remembered Higashi as a “fun-loving, full of life” San Franciscan who always made time for her loved ones.

When her friend Joe Falcone looked back at his photos of Higashi, he said he couldn’t find a single one that was just a portrait of her.

“Unfortunately, I didn‘t have any solo pictures of her but that kind of speaks to her friendliness,” he said.

Higashi loved pranks, Falcone said, but she also loved inviting friends and family over to her Outer Sunset home for dinner with her and her partner, Cynthia Avakian. Avakian declined to comment on Tuesday.

News of Higashi’s death spread among Falcone and Kaiser’s friends just two days after 30-year-old Tess Rothstein was killed by a truck driver while biking down Folsom Street in SoMa.

“We’re having more accidents because people aren’t really focused on driving,” Kaiser said.

More than 70 percent of serious or deadly incidents happen on just 12 percent of San Francisco’s streets, according to Vision Zero, the city’s road safety initiative.

“I am mystified at how the system perpetuates these tragedies by not recognizing them as crime and not having a real-time map that showed us every day where people are being killed or hit,” Falcone said. “If the city wants to do anything more apt they need to highlight where are the dangerous places.”

San Francisco has seen a 27 percent increase in the number of cars coming into the city daily, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.

Last week, Mayor London Breed directed SFMTA, San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to implement better plans for reducing traffic fatalities.

Breed’s announcement followed a string of auto incidents that killed three, including Higashi, and left at least three others seriously injured. At least six people had been killed in traffic fatalities in San Francisco since Jan. 1, according to Vision Zero.

“Everyone feels like there’s no repercussions to having these kinds of accidents, then the driving — people just don’t take care,” Falcone said.

Friends and family are still planning a memorial for Higashi.

Gwendolyn Wu is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: gwendolyn.wu@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @gwendolynawu