The California Highway Patrol has released more information about the truck investigators believe struck and killed noted San Francisco attorney Donald Casper as he jogged along a rural road in Sonoma County Sunday.The CHP also released a photograph of the truck taken by a surveillance camera at Korbel Champagne Cellars at 13250 River Road moments before Casper was hit.
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A connector ramp from westbound state Highway 92 to southbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Mateo reopened late this morning after big-rig crash forced a six-hour closure, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The truck overturned at about 5:30 a.m. and spilled a load of scrap metal and two recycled vehicles onto the connector ramp and the two right lanes of Highway 101, CHP Officer Art Montiel said.
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A Sig-alert has been issued this morning after a big-rig and its contents overturned onto westbound state Highway 92 in San Mateo, near a connector ramp to U.S. Highway 101, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The truck overturned around 5:30 a.m. and dumped debris onto the freeway, blocking all westbound Highway 92 lanes and two lanes of southbound Highway 101. The alert was issued just before 5:55 a.m., according to Officer Kevin Bartlett.
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Commuters who use their own vehicles were likely counting their lucky stars after BART protests wreaked havoc on public transit riders leaving San Francisco on Monday night. Unfortunately, a fire near Cesar Chavez Street and southbound U.S. Highway 101 changed that rosy outlook.
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An Oakland man is in critical condition today after he was shot while feeding the homeless with his family in East Oakland early this morning, a police spokeswoman said. Police responded at about 12:30 a.m. to the 1000 block of 47th Avenue after someone flagged down a California Highway Patrol officer to report the shooting, Oakland police Sgt. Holly Joshi said.
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A man died after a brief car chase ended in a solo car crash in Oakland early this morning and an Interstate Highway 880 off-ramp remains closed due to police activity, a California Highway Patrol officer said.Officers spotted a white Honda driving erratically on International Boulevard near 55th Avenue at around 1:20 a.m., CHP Officer Sam Morgan said.
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A motorist driving on Interstate Highway 880 in the East Bay this afternoon called the California Highway Patrol after spotting his own stolen trailer driven by another person, a CHP spokesman said. The call came in at about 12:30 p.m., and CHP officers pulled over the trailer on southbound I-880 between state Highway 92 and West Tennyson Road in Hayward, CHP Officer R. Crawford said.
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A big-rig hauling junk cars overturned on the Highway 92 offramp to Highway 101 in San Mateo County, shutting down the major freeway connector for more than 4 hours, according to the California Highway Patrol.The incident was reported around 12:15 p.m. Wednesday. Though no injuries were immediately reported an ambulance responded to the crash site. The big-rig was reportedly on its driver’s side.
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State Highway 4 is shut down in both directions in Pittsburg this morning because of police activity, a California Highway Patrol officer said. The activity, which began shortly before 7 a.m., is occurring on the overcrossing at Loveridge Road, forcing authorities to block both eastbound and westbound traffic, CHP Officer Peter Van Eckhardt said.Westbound motorists are being detoured off the highway at Somersville Road in Antioch, he said.
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All lanes of eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in San Francisco are back open after crews removed a disabled big-rig and the portable building it was carrying that blocked the roadway for more than four hours this morning.The big-rig and its load were relocated to the Fifth Street on-ramp in an unmarked area where the lanes merge, California Highway Patrol Officer Peter Van Eckhardt.
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