SF News Supervisor Dorsey Confirms That Yes, SF Police Are Arresting People for Being High on Drugs In Public About two weeks after Mayor Breed’s declaration about arresting people who are high, Supervisor Matt Dorsey says that a few people have been arrested, but admits there’s no visible difference in street conditions.
SF News Newsom’s CHP Operation To Stamp Out Fentanyl Trade In Tenderloin Starts Underwhelmingly There was reportedly not much California Highway Patrol presence on Day One of Gavin Newsom’s highly touted Tenderloin fentanyl crackdown, and it turns out the National Guard presence will only be “criminal case analysts” who will likely never be visible to the public.
SF News Three Dead After High-Speed Chase In Solano County In Allegedly Stolen Car Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News CHP Makes Arrests In Two Separate East Bay Freeway Shootings From Earlier This Summer Some progress in the troubling rash of freeway shootings in recent years, as the California Highway Patrol feels they’ve solved the cases of two separate freeway shootings, one near Lake Merritt, the other near Mount Diablo.
SF News So... a Motorcycle Flew Off the Bay Bridge This Week The Bay Bridge has doubled as a stage for many odd scenes as of late, including a traffic jam caused by a detached mobile restroom that looked like one of SF's Painted Ladies. And this week, the 4.5-mile bridge saw a motorcycle fly off it, sinking somewhere in the SF Bay.
SF News Major Westbound Backup on Bay Bridge Caused By Pedestrian; CHP Officer Makes Arrest With Help From Drivers A major traffic situation unfolded Wednesday evening on the upper, westbound deck of the Bay Bridge, caused by a man illegally walking eastbound from San Francisco in a traffic lane.
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 Two Highway Patrol Officers Injured in Bay Point When SUV Plows Into Them After chasing down a blue Subaru Outback early Sunday morning in Bay Point, two officers got out of their cruisers to arrest the suspect. The suspect promptly mowed them down and drove off.
SF News Video: Truck Plows Wrong Way Through Bay Bridge Toll Gate, Hits CHP Cruiser A bizarre crash happened at the Bay Bridge toll plaza on Sunday afternoon in which a flatbed truck came barreling through the toll gates going the wrong way, pushing a CHP vehicle out of the way.
SF News Second Shooting on Highway 4 Leaves Driver Injured, Another Car Sprinkled With Bullet Holes Around 1:15 a.m. Saturday, a man was wounded when his red Nissan Altima was shot multiple times — from both sides, no less — while driving on Highway 4 in Pittsburg; this was the second shooting of a driver traveling on the same stretch of roadway this week.
SF News Maserati Attempting to Flee From CHP Pursuit In Oakland Launches Up and Under Overpass In Crazy Crash A Maserati SUV that was reportedly speeding above 100 miles per hour in Oakland on Sunday morning ended up wedged in the elbow of an embankment and a freeway overpass, but remarkably the driver escaped unharmed.
SF News Dog Stolen From Bay Bridge Crash Victim Returned to Owner A young pup was stolen by a not-all-too-good samaritan after he did a “welfare check” on an injured victim involved in last weekend's multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge — but CHP has now retrieved the dog, returning it to its rightful owner.
SF News Antioch Man Saves Elderly Oakland Driver Who Drove Into Sacramento River This past Thursday, a 67-year-old Oakland driver crashed his white GMC SUV into the Sacramento River around 10 a.m. — but he was swiftly saved and carried ashore by a thirty-something who came across the scene.
SF News CHP Begins Holiday Crackdown on Unsafe Drivers California Highway Patrol officers will be out in force beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, pulling over speeders and unsafe drivers in the hope of preventing tragedies on the road.
SF News Couple Shot By CHP Officers In Oakland Were Driving Vehicle Allegedly Looted From San Leandro Dealership A man and a woman who were shot by CHP officers in Oakland Saturday night were reportedly driving a vehicle identified as one of the 70+ cars stolen off a dealer's lot during widespread looting in San Leandro a week ago Sunday.
SF News Video: Toyota Camry Clocked Going 130mph After Evading Traffic Stop In Rohnert Park, Two Arrested Two men in a Toyota Camry led CPH officers on a high-speed chase through three counties early Tuesday morning, reaching speeds of up to 130 miles per hour before ultimately being apprehended.
SF News CHP Tells Bay Area Drivers to Slow Down Amid Uptick in 100-mph Speeders On Empty Highways Set aside those dreams of joyriding on an empty highway and testing the limits of your car without consequence during shelter-in-place orders. The CHP wants you to know they're writing a lot of tickets.
SF News Car Passenger In Critical Condition After I-580 Freeway Shooting In Oakland An unidentified passenger in a vehicle traveling on eastbound I-580 in Oakland this morning was shot and critically wounded in what's being characterized by authorities as a targeted hit.
SF News Driver In Police Chase Allegedly Attempts To Run Down CHP Officer on I-580 A driver in a police pursuit that began in Dublin may have tried to crash into a CHP blockade in Oakland, which led to the complete halting of traffic on westbound I-580 Tuesday morning.
SF News Motorcyclist Killed In Bay Bridge Crash ID'd As SF Resident A motorcyclist who led a CHP officer on a chase across the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning that ended with him crashing into a box truck has been identified as 36-year-old SF resident Jose Vargas.
SF News Unlicensed Drivers Behind California Shutdown Of Ford-Owned Chariot, Which Resumes Service Today After jitney service Chariot abruptly shut down its San Francisco service last week, speculation ran rampant on the cause of the closure. But now we know the reason: Multiple drivers with the company
SF News Uber Drivers Shot In Pacific Heights, On 380 Near SFO Clay St at Laguna now open after @SFPD investigate shooting of driver of towed car. He suffered non life threatening injury pic.twitter.com/DwZFhgMMaw— Tiffany Wilson (@TWilsonTV) October 22, 2017 Two Bay
SF News Three Dead On Bay Area Roads After CHP Officer Strikes Pedestrian, Wrong-Way Driver Speeds Down 880 Media: Officer Montiel will be at Sam's Chowder House parking lot. @SMCSheriff will allow you to enter closure. pic.twitter.com/XwweioS0Jv— CHP RWC (@CHP_RedwoodCity) October 1, 2017 At least three people
SF News Video: Footage Released Of Armed Robberies At Two Bay Area Toll Booths Two separate Bay Area bridge toll booths were held up at gunpoint Sunday (we mentioned it in brief here), and the California Highway Patrol has released surveillance video showing that the vehicle and
