A California State Parks lifeguard who was allegedly distracted while driving an agency vehicle ran over a woman lying in the sand at Francis Beach in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, according to the the San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n
The 20-year-old woman was taken to the hospital, but sheriff\u2019s spokesperson Gretchen Spiker said she was expected to survive. <\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office is conducing an investigation into the incident. Spiker said that \u201cinitial reports indicated the driver may have been distracted.\u201d <\/p>\n
The incident involved a seasonal lifeguard at Francis Beach, the main hub of Half Moon Bay State Beach<\/a>, according to Adeline Yee, spokesperson for California State Parks. The beach, which is home to a campground and picnic areas, is also known as Kelly State Beach.<\/p>\n Such incidents are not uncommon. In 2018, <\/a>a woman was taken to a hospital after being hit by a pickup driven by an on-duty municipal worker while she was lying on the sand in Newport Beach. Two years earlier, a Los Angeles County employee<\/a> drove over a man laying in the sand in Venice Beach, severely injuring the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California State Parks lifeguard who was allegedly distracted while driving an agency vehicle ran over a woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[152670,33191,152669,3313,1583,4456,48,52,51,103893,47,50,49,5860,346,55417,2637,152672,11758,152671,1557],"class_list":["post-377101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california-state-parks-lifeguard","tag-campground","tag-francis-beach","tag-half-moon-bay","tag-hospital","tag-incident","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lifeguard","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-newport-beach","tag-office","tag-sand","tag-sheriff","tag-spiker","tag-spokesperson","tag-sunbather","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}