Well.... Knowing SF, she could have been a bum sleeping in the street...

Woman severely injured after being trapped under self-driving car in San Francisco

By David Curran

A woman suffered major injuries after being run over and pinned under a self-driving GM Cruise in San Francisco on Monday night, the San Francisco Fire Department said.  A vehicle that was not autonomous may have been initially involved in the crash, which took place on Fifth Street just south of Market Street, San Francisco Police Department added early Tuesday morning.

First responders received a 911 call around 9:35 p.m., reporting a woman trapped underneath an autonomous vehicle on Fifth Street just south of Market Street. 

According to Captain Justin Schorr of the San Francisco Fire Department, rescuers found the woman beneath the left rear axle of the vehicle.

The controllers of the Cruise AV were reached and able to disable the car remotely, Schorr said. The victim suffered multiple traumatic injuries and was taken to the hospital, authorities said.

In a statement on X (the former Twitter), Cruise said: "At approximately 9:30 p.m. on October 2, a human-driven vehicle struck a pedestrian while traveling in the lane immediately to the left of the Cruise AV. The initial impact was severe and launched the pedestrian directly in front of the AV."

In a second tweet, Cruise says that the driver of the vehicle that struck the woman fled the scene.

Rescuers were "able to get the car up off her" and used the jaws of life to free her, but she had multiple traumatic injuries and was taken to the hospital. Her current condition is not known, Schorr said at 10:30 p.m.

Schorr said no witnesses were available to explain how she may have ended up underneath the vehicle, which was unoccupied.

The investigation has been turned over to the San Francisco Police Department, which will be using surveillance footage to help determine what happened, Schorr said.