Hospital worker, 23, killed in car crash in Potrero and 24th

Glenn Achampon, a 23-year-old technician at San Francisco General Hospital, was killed early Saturday morning, November 23, when a car crashed into a building at Potrero Avenue and 24th Street.

At approximately 2:13 a.m., San Francisco police responded to a collision. According to the authority, a vehicle with possibly two occupants collided with a building.

The car crashed into the building on Potrero Ave., according to Robert Sharp, a neighbor who lives on the block. 1170. Achampon, the victim, was sitting in the passenger seat. No information was available about the driver.

Achampon, a contractor for AYA Healthcare, a travel nursing agency, had a one-week contract in San Francisco, said his girlfriend, Kayla. He was scheduled to return to upstate New York, where he lived, on Friday. But Kayla said Achampon’s employer mixed up his flight details and he had to stay another day.

Kayla spoke to Achampon in a FaceTime call on Friday around 8 p.m. He sat in the passenger seat with his colleague Aaron behind the wheel and said they were going to see the city.

“I told him to have fun and talk to him later,” Kayla said. “And that was the last time I heard from him.”

Ralph Achampon, Glenn’s older brother, was supposed to pick Glenn up from the airport that evening. Instead, he received a call from the coroner’s office in San Francisco on Saturday morning.

For the past two weeks, Ralph has been grieving the loss of his brother and raising money for the funeral, all while trying to bring Achampon back to New York. He is also trying to bring their mother to the United States from Ghana, where the brothers were born, to see their son. The brothers moved to the United States in September 2012 and their mother remained in Ghana. As of Monday evening, the family’s GoFundMe had raised $4,710.

The brothers, a year apart, “did everything together and never spent more than two years apart,” Ralph said.

Achampon was a person of “brutal honesty” and many friends, Ralph said. He was a midshipman in the NROTC and wanted to join the Navy. He planned to go back to college next year.

“If God blesses me with a long life, what should I do?” said Ralph. “Live about 50 years and remember I had a brother like that?”

Achampon ran half marathons and his neck was heavy with dozens of medals, as seen in his girlfriend’s Instagram photo. “Glenn loved challenges!” Kayla wrote in one of her stories. In other posts, he played mini-golf, almost always smiling, recorded TikTok dances, and celebrated his birthday by blowing out a candle on a cake instead of a piece of cake.

“Never in a million years did I think I would write a post like this about you,” Kayla wrote in a post announcing his death. “You mean the world to me and I pray you are in a better place.”