{"id":413622,"date":"2026-08-22T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:40:13","slug":"woman-identified-after-being-struck-pinned-by-suv-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413622\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman identified after being struck, pinned by SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A woman who died after being accidentally struck and pinned underneath a vehicle at a South Side home has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday near Dorsey Drive and Moursund Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/person-dies-after-vehicle-crashes-into-fence-traps-them-underneath-san-antonio-texas-south-side-investigation-police-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman dies after being struck, pinned by SUV at South Side home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carmelita Espinosa, 59,  was sitting outside the home when a 58-year-old man attempted to back up his vehicle. Police said the driver became distracted and accidentally shifted the vehicle into drive instead of reverse.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle moved forward, striking Espinosa and pinning her underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier information from police indicated Espinosa had been sitting in a metal chair between a fence and a Ford Expedition when she was struck.<\/p>\n<p>Life-saving measures were attempted, but Espinosa was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police previously said there were no visible signs of criminal activity involving the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A woman who died after being accidentally struck and pinned underneath a vehicle at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-413622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}