SF News SFPD Might Expand Their Police Chase Policies to Allow Chases of Nonviolent Felony Suspects The Prop E measure that SF voters approved in March is coming home to roost, as the SF Police Commission is about to consider new rules that expand the types of cases where SFPD officers can engage in car chases.
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
SF News Car Theft Suspects Caught In Oakland After Leading Police on 40-Mile Chase, Throwing Tools at Cop Cars A 2:30 a.m. Friday morning car chase started when two auto theft suspects were allegedly casing cars in Napa County, and police chased them all the way to Oakland, despite that the suspects were hurling construction tools at the police vehicles along the way.
SF News Wild Bay Bridge High-Speed Chase Ends With Driver's Arrest After Three-County Pursuit A driver led California Highway Patrol on a 45-minute-long late-night chase Saturday, apparently speeding up to 120 mph while crossing the Bay Bridge.
SF News Report Alleges Oakland PD Officers Lied About No-Headlights, 100-MPH Car Chase That Killed Bystander An Oakland Police Commission report seems to confirm the allegation that two officers lied about a June 2022 high-speed chase of a suspected sideshow participant they conducted with no headlights or sirens on, a chase that killed an innocent bystander.
SF News There Were Car Chases Galore on Bay Area Roads Early Thursday Morning, One Involving Nine Teens There were three high-speed car chases on Bay Area highways Thursday morning, one of which involved nine teens in a stolen car. Plus another East Bay chase Wednesday afternoon led to an on-foot manhunt for suspects wanted in a shooting.
SF News SFPD Chase of Murder Suspect Ends With Van Crashing at Third and Folsom Streets, During Moscone Center Conference The California Highway Patrol started a pursuit of a reported Oakland homicide suspect in Redwood City Thursday, and the chase didn’t end until the suspect crashed his white van into the wall of the Moscone Center parking lot.
SF News Stolen Car Chase Sparks Cross-Bay Pursuit and Dramatic Richmond Standoff A dramatic high-speed chase led authorities across the Bay Bridge twice before the teenage driver was arrested. No human injuries were reported but a K-9 officer was struck.
SF News After Two High-Profile Crashes, SF Police Commission Wants Review of Vehicle Pursuit Policy An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
SF News Late-Night High-Speed Chase Knocks Down Power Pole in East Oakland, 6,000 Households Lose Power An estimated 6,000 East Oakland PG&E customers were without power between 3:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, all because of the wreckage caused by a 125 mph chase on I-880 near Fruitvale.
SF News More Details Emerge In Fatal High-Speed Fairfield Crash; Teen Victims Had Allegedly Been On Crime Spree We already knew that a fatal February 22 100-mph rollover crash in Fairfield involved an allegedly carjacked vehicle, but we’re now learning that the three who died were teenagers whom authorities say had been on a three-day crime spree that left one man shot and paralyzed.
SF News South SF Teen Allegedly Steals Car, Rams Into Multiple Other Cars On Two-Hour Joyride Before Police Catch Him A wild car chase tore through South San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, with the alleged car thief crashing into several cars and a police cruiser, yet this alleged car thief is a mere 15 years old.
SF News Video: Stolen Pickup Drives Wrong Way on I-880, Rams BART Police Van and Other Vehicles in San Leandro A wrong-way car chase had both Oakland police and BART police in hot pursuit Thursday evening, and news chopper video shows a BART police SUV and three other vehicles taking damage before the suspect was nabbed.
SF News Details Emerge on Milpitas Murder and Car Chase Where Ex-Boyfriend Allegedly Stalked, Killed Victim We now know the identity of the victim and the alleged killer in Sunday’s grisly Milpitas high-speed chase, where the victim was an aspiring realtor, and her ex-boyfriend a registered sex offender.
SF News Milpitas Police Drawn Into High-Speed Chase With Man Who Had Ex-Girlfriend’s Dead Body in Car A police pursuit yielded a grisly discovery Sunday afternoon, after a high-speed chase between Milpitas and Fremont ended with a murder victim’s body being found in the back of her own stolen car.
SF News Video: 120 MPH Car Chase Ends When Suspect Tries to Swim Away in Bay at Emeryville Chevy’s, Does Not Get Far Fasten your seat belts for a wild, 11-minute California Highway Patrol high-speed car chase video, which ends with the suspect absconding into the bay, but lo, this tactic proves unsuccessful.
SF News Bonkers East Bay Car Chase Video Emerges of Suspect Smashing Into Cop Cars, Trying to Fight K-9 Dog A new video captures the greatest hits of an epic, two-county car chase where a suspect collides with police cars, jumps a 20-foot ridge and carjacks his way out of it, and then attempts to gouge the eyeballs out of the K-9 dog that eventually nabs him.
SF News Police Arrest 7 Juvenile Robbery Suspects After Chase From Oakland To San Leandro Police arrested seven robbery suspects this morning after a vehicle chase led officers from Oakland to San Leandro. According to the East Bay Times, all the suspects are juveniles and at least one
SF News Uber Driver Leads CHP On 100-Mph Chase Through Five East Bay Cities "We don't know why he ran," officer Sean Wilkenfeld, a California Highway Patrol spokesperson, told the Contra Costa Times, referring to a Newark man and recent Uber driver who led officers on a
SF News Rental Car Leads Cops On Wild Chase, Smashes Everything It's the very end of 2013, and if you've got a bucket list from last New Year's you're still working on, go ahead and don't take a cue from whoever drove an out-of-state
SF News Suspect Shot And Killed After Thanksgiving Triple-Stabbing In San Jose On Thursday morning, a man was shot and killed behind the wheel of a stolen minivan after allegedly entering a home in San Jose and stabbing three residents. The suspect led police on
SF News Exciting SFPD Car Chase Ends Underwater in Berkeley [Updated] The SFPD went speeding after a suspect vehicle on 101 last night which took them across the bridge to Berkeley Aquatic Park, where the suspect tried to ditch his car in the water
SF News High-Speed Chase From Vallejo to Oakland Ends in Crash, Two Arrests A car containing a burglary suspect or suspects took off at high speeds this afternoon on I-780 in Vallejo, ultimately crashing near Oakland's Rockridge district on Highway 24, and causing an elementary school
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SF News SFist Blotter ...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over
