Around 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, a BMW apparently caught fire on the westbound top deck of the Bay Bridge, causing a plume of smoke (seen here) backing up traffic past Yerba Buena island.
According to the KCBS traffic team, the vehicle has since been cleared and traffic is going again, but things are moving slowly all the way down to Cesar Chavez:
Bay Bridge slow WB 80 from the incline onto SB 101 to Cesar Chavez where an earlier car fire has been cleared from lanes.
— KCBS Traffic (@kcbstraffic) March 26, 2012
No word yet on what caused the 3-Series Beamer to go up in smoke, but it didn't appear to cause any damage to the bridge.
