A woman who was sun tanning on a New Jersey beach was critically injured after getting run over by a police cruiser.

The sunbather was lying on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey when she was run over by a police officer at 3:30 on Wednesday.

The officer was responding to a call near Rio Grande Avenue when he accidentally ran over the torso of a woman who was sunbathing.

Bystanders quickly ran and attempted to dig the woman’s body out of the sand, and she was transported to a local hospital.

The woman is expected to survive but is in critical condition.

First it was rip tides, next it was sharks. Now beach goers have something else to fear !!!

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— Peter (@PeterPugh10) September 3, 2024

Police truck runs over sunbathing woman on Wildwood, NJ beach https://t.co/o4zd3pX6ai @nj1015

— New Jersey 101.5 (@nj1015) August 30, 2024

Here’s what The New York Post reported:

A sunbather was run over by a cop in a pickup truck on the sand in Wildwood, NJ — and remained under the vehicle till good Samaritans could lift it off her.

The unidentified on-duty officer from the Wildwood Police Department was responding to a call near Rio Grande Avenue at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when he ran over the torso of the woman, who was laying on a towel, Wildwood Police Chief Joseph Murphy told the Press of Atlantic City.

Bystanders immediately ran to her aid, with some digging in the sand as others worked to lift the front end of the Ford F-150 off her, according to the Star-Ledger.

“They were the ones who sprung to action,” witness Rose Simone said. “A bunch of guys came around that were in the area, and they said, ‘We have to lift the truck, the front of the truck, to get her out.’ ”

Sunbathing woman run over by police and left with 'truly horrible' injuries
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— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) September 2, 2024

Per The Daily Mirror:

A police officer responding to a call about an “ordinance violation” at a crowded beach is said to have mowed down a sunbather with his car, in a chaotic incident that left one woman with “truly horrible” injuries. Still in a serious condition in hospital, the victim is said to have sustained serious damage to her lungs, as well as three fractured vertebrae, and multiple broken ribs.

The on-duty cop is reported to have driven his large service vehicle onto a crowded New Jersey beach, Wednesday, while a woman was lying on a towel enjoying the mid-afternoon sun, around 3.30pm. Beachgoers described screaming at the officer to stop, but then the front end of his Ford F-150 police pickup went right over her.

Eyewitnesses described a frantic rush to aid the woman, with several people lifting the front end of the pickup truck off her. “People were just screaming, ‘You hit somebody! Somebody’s under your truck! Stop! ‘” said Rose Simone, who was visiting from Pennsylvania.