(05-07) 10:54 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Several suspects trying to elude San Francisco police crashed their car into a pedestrian and a motorist Tuesday night in the Marina District, authorities said.

The incident began about 9:40 p.m. when officers near Broadway and Hyde Street saw a Toyota Avalon with three people inside whom they suspected of car theft, said Officer Albie Esparza, a San Francisco police spokesman.

The officers began following the car, and the driver "began to speed away and drove erratically," Esparza said.

The suspects ran a red light at Chestnut and Franklin streets, crashing into a pedestrian and a woman in a car, police said. The victims suffered injuries that weren't life-threatening, Esparza said. The car then collided into a building, causing structural damage.

The suspects fled on foot, but several individuals were later detained, Esparza said.

Police were not chasing the vehicle at the time, he said.

"I just really hope that the person that was conscious, that got run over, and the driver, they're going to be OK," witness Diane Chauliac told reporters. "The driver seemed fine, she was walking and she was talking and she was lucid and all that, but the person that got run over, honestly that was just so violent. It was just very, very fast."
