The mid-afternoon accident caused service delays into the evening between the West Portal and Castro stations in California's third largest city.
Initial reports indicating that a single-car train was traveling at low speed when it collided with a stopped train have not been confirmed, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) spokesman Judson True said in a statement.
The investigation of the accident is ongoing, True said.
There have been several such accidents in the United States in recent months.
Last month nine people were killed and more than 70 injured when a commuter train in Washington D.C. slammed into another that had stopped during the afternoon rush hour. The cause of the crash has not been determined.
Witnesses said the westbound L train barreled into the K train as it emerged from a tunnel connecting downtown San Francisco to the western neighborhoods of the city.
The front of the L train was smashed, while the K train sustained less damage. The operator of the L train was among the seriously injured.
Witnesses said more than a dozen people sat on benches along the boarding platform after the crash, some of them bleeding from their heads. Most of the passengers were adults.
The cause of the crash was under investigation. Judson True, a railway spokesman, said investigators would look at “mechanical and human issues.”
The crash was at least the third major transit accident in the United States since May.
Nine people were killed and more than 70 injured on June 22 when a Metro train slammed into another train stopped on the tracks in Washington. On May 8, more than 50 people were injured when a Boston subway trolley plowed into another train.
Officials look over the trains involved in the crash at the West Portal Station.
A Muni worker inspects the damage to two trains that were involved in a collision Saturday at the West Portal Station.
San Francisco firefighters talk with one of the victims involved in a two-train Muni crash at the West Portal Station on Saturday.
San Francisco firefighters and police officers coordinate which victims get transported from the West Portal Station according to the severity of their injuries after a two-train MUNI crash on Saturday.
A San Francisco fire captain inspects the damage after the Muni train on the left collided with the train on the right at the West Portal Station on Saturday.
Residents and Muni riders look on as emergency workers and firefighters attend to dozens of people injured when an L-Taraval Muni Metro train apparently rear-ended a K-Ingleside train.
Officials look over the trains involved in the crash at the West Portal Station.
Muni personnel and accident inspectors look over the two trains involved in an afternoon collision at the West Portal Station on Saturday.
Muni workers cover the damaged front end of a Muni train after a collision between an outbound L Taraval and K Ingleside train at the West Portal Station on Saturday.
Muni personnel prepare to move a damaged L Taraval Muni train after it collided with an outbound K Ingleside train at the West Portal Station on Saturday.
Muni spokesman Judson True answers questions from members of the media at the scene of accident after an outbound L Taraval and a K Ingleside train collided near the boarding platform at the West Portal Station in San Francisco on Saturday.
Muni workers inspect the rail track after two Muni trains collided at the West Portal Station in San Francisco on Saturday
Rescue workers transport one of several dozen people who were injured when two San Francisco light-rail trains collided Saturday afternoon at the West Portal Station. Rescue workers take a crash victim to an ambulance. About 20 were taken to hospitals.
A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train travels towards San Francisco in 2005
Medical personnel treat the injured Saturday at West Portal Station, where a light rail car hit another.
Emergency workers set up a triage area next to one of the trains involved in a two-train Muni crash at the West Portal Station.
Two light rail cars collided in San Francisco Saturday, injuring 48 people, four of whom were in critical condition, officials said.Muni personnel look over the two trains involved in an afternoon collision at the West Portal Station on Saturday.
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At least 44 people were hurt after two light rail cars collided near a rail station in San Francisco on Saturday. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
The crash occurred at about 2 p.m. Saturday at Fourth and King streets, one block south of AT&T Park.
According to Muni officials, a one-car, T-Third train going west on King Street between Third and Fourth streets rear-ended a two-car N-Judah train that was stopped at the Fourth Street traffic signal. The back of the N-Judah train was heavily damaged in the crash.
"Based on the investigation so far, it appears as though the T-Third train was traveling at 17 mph," Muni spokesman Judson True said Tuesday. He said that section of roadway is a 3-mph zone for Muni trains.
Muni is also investigating whether the T-Third operator may have been on a cell phone at the time of the crash.
Other security camera shows interior of train when crashing.
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