The California Highway Patrol’s Contra Costa division was kept busy Tuesday afternoon with another high-speed car chase that went on for 40 minutes, though this one fortunately did not end with any deadly consequences or injuries.
A high-speed California Highway Patrol car chase raced from Contra Costa County to Santa Clara County Tuesday afternoon, and KTVU was able to capture video of the chase from their SkyFox news chopper. And while the chase lasted an entire 40 minutes until the suspect was finally stopped, there were no injuries of innocent bystanders — as we saw with last Wednesday’s fatal CHP car chase that left an Oakland high school math teacher dead when he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The KTVU video above shows just a few snippets of Tuesday's chase that lasted about 40 minutes. One CHP SUV is able to corral the orange 2016 Ford Mustang, but it gets away by driving across a median and over several bollards. Another CHP cruiser is able to catch up with it and intentionally collide with the side of the vehicle and bring it to a stop. And then five arresting officers are hardly gentle with the suspect they pull out of the vehicle.
The chase reportedly started at 3:40 pm Tuesday in San Ramon, and the driver refused to yield, speeding at 70 MPH down I-680. The officers were finally able to stop the car at 4:38 pm near North Abel Street in Milpitas.
The suspect pulled from the car is identified as 29-year-old Brandon Collins of Danville. He was detained for felony evasion and booked into Santa Rita Jail.
The CHP officers originally gave chase over reports of a potentially intoxicated driver in an orange 2016 Ford Mustang. But Collins was found to not be intoxicated once he was detained. It’s unclear if an intoxicated driver in a similar vehicle got away, or if Collins was mistakenly identified as intoxicated.
Related: One Person Dead After Wednesday Night High-Speed CHP Chase in Oakland [SFist]
Image: CHP - Contra Costa via Facebook
