A San Francisco girl was severely injured after a hit-and-run driver struck her Monday night, hurling her beneath the autonomous Cruise automobile.

Police responded round 9:30 pm to a hit-and-run incident on the intersection of Fifth and Market Streets, San Francisco police instructed CNBC. The drive of the impression hurled the pedestrian in entrance of a Cruise automobile, which utilized the brakes “aggressively” and remained in place on the request of police, a Cruise spokesperson and San Francisco police stated.

Police rendered support on the scene earlier than medics transported the lady to the hospital, the police stated.

“Our heartfelt concern and focus is the wellbeing of the one who was injured and we’re actively working with police to assist determine the accountable driver,” a Cruise spokesperson instructed CNBC. The Cruise automobile didn’t have a passenger in it.

Police have not discovered witnesses as of Tuesday morning, NBC Bay Space reported, however Cruise autos have quite a few cameras inside and outdoors the automobile and captured a lot of the incident. CNBC reviewed footage from the incident, which reveals each the Cruise automobile and the hit-and-run automobile driving alongside Fifth Avenue.

The hit-and-run driver struck the pedestrian as each automobiles had been crossing Market Avenue. The pedestrian didn’t seem like utilizing a marked crosswalk. The girl was thrown throughout the hit-and-run automobile into the appropriate lane the place the Cruise automobile was driving. The Cruise automobile got here to a direct cease after the impression. NBC Bay Space reported that the lady was trapped beneath the left rear axle of the automobile and that San Francisco Fireplace was compelled to make use of the “jaws of life” to extricate her.

First responders instructed NBC Bay Space that the lady suffered a number of traumatic accidents and was transported to Zuckerberg San Francisco Common Hospital. San Francisco police stated the pedestrian’s standing is unknown.

Cruise is a subsidiary of Common Motors and has been piloting its driverless fleet throughout San Francisco since August. The corporate has drawn scrutiny from first responders and the general public over a number of incidents involving site visitors holdups and delays. Together with Alphabet-subsidiary Waymo, Cruise is without doubt one of the few U.S. firms testing autonomous driving.