San Francisco police officers among 3 injured after car strikes pedestrians on Nob Hill

Two San Francisco police officers and another person were taken to a hospital Friday morning after they were struck by a driver on Nob Hill, according to media reports and emergency dispatch information.

The crash was reported near California and Hyde streets, a busy intersection crossed by cable car tracks and surrounded by dense residential blocks, hotels and neighborhood businesses.

A San Francisco police dispatch log showed an "officer needs emergency help" call at the intersection at 7:36 a.m.

San Francisco firefighters were called to the intersection at about 7:45 a.m., a spokesperson for the department said. When crews arrived, one person was trapped under the vehicle and had to be extricated, they said.

All three injured people were taken to San Francisco General Hospital for trauma care. ABC7 reported that two of the injured people were San Francisco police officers and the third was another person.

Their conditions were not immediately known.

"Due to federal patient privacy laws, SFFD is unable to release further details regarding the patients' conditions, identities, or the specific circumstances of the incident," the spokesperson said.

A witness told KTVU that one officer appeared to be pinned under a Lexus and that another officer was on the ground nearby as first responders provided aid.

Images from the scene showed a dark gray Lexus near the intersection, police tape, multiple officers and a cable car nearby. The circumstances leading up to the crash remained unclear Friday morning.

Police had not immediately announced whether the driver was detained, cited or arrested. It was also not immediately clear whether the crash was being investigated as a traffic collision, a criminal case or both.

The intersection sits on a steep stretch of California Street in Nob Hill, an area where drivers, pedestrians, cable cars and transit riders regularly share narrow, heavily traveled streets.

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