Warning for San Francisco drivers. Area around south van ness and 17th street is likely to be tied up for a while following a police pursuit. Terry mcsweeney is live at the scene. That chase ended in a frightening crash. Reporter it did. The impact you are going to see in a moment. Here at 17th and south van ness it will be busy shortly a city worker is trying to repair the signal box, he says the repairs are going to take hours maybe until noon. Right now there is nobody out here directing traffic. Weve heard horns and people getting a little upset with people who are not taking their time going through thin section. That began westbound 80, chp saw a driver who was speeding, weaving and nearly hitting construction workers then on to 15th, thats the video, the vehicle being chased jeep suv, hit a parked vehicle which hit a person on a bicycle. The person on the bike seriously injured, you see the damage, the rider taken to the hospital. Again, serious injuries the vehicle being chased
Captioned by closed captioning services, inc. Good morning. Student demonstrators shutdown a street over tuition did hands. Terry mcsweeney joins us live at mission bay. Reporter the regents are meeting in this building behind me. A short time ago, a number of people in the room there, not necessarily students, disrupted it they came up and started shouting, the regents were cleared from the room. Protesters were told to stop or they would be he courted out they left on their own. It is not just inside, they are making noise outside too many take a listen. Reporter the signs say roll back debt and free public educating. This follows a sleepout protesters spending the night out here. The regents are meeting in the building behind me a from where the protesters were gathering. Earlier this week they backed off a vote on plans to increase fees for graduate professional greece statewide. A protester says hes a grad student well hear his concerns and follow that with ucs side. Asking people
About the childs condition. Reporter not really seeing any information tonight about the boy. But we learned about a half hour ago from oakland fire officials that hes 5 years old, and is in lifethreatening condition. Several people saw the collision and the immediate aftermath. Off duty San Francisco firefighter rushed to provide aid. He about an inch and a half gash underneath his chin and a quarter inch opening. He started to go into shock. A little boy in the street. Laying with his mom. She was holding onto him. Trying to get some kind of response out of him. Reporter the boy was rushed to oakland childrens hospital. The driver of the van stopped, and is cooperating with police. She was shaken up really bad. I spoke to her. She shook. She said i was driving down the street and all of a sudden there was this kid, and he was there in front of my car. It appears that the child ran suddenly from the curb into oncoming traffic and the driver had nothing they could do about it. Reporter
Chase. Cbs 5 reporter cate caugiran is in San Franciscos Mission district at one of the crime scenes related to this point,. Reporter i want to show you now this is one of the cars involved in that chase that that driver hit one of two parked cars tulip. Heres the surprising detail about that driver. This is her fourth dui in the past 10 years. Take a look at some video from the scene earlier. Ill walk you through. The suspect drove on to a closed onramp to westbound 80. A chp tried to pull her over. Then she exited on mission and van ness and the chase began. She led officers through small streets in the mission and in that short time she hit one car that rolled forward and hit a cyclist. That cyclist was taken to San Francisco General Hospital is expected to be okay. But after that she continued on to hit another parked car that one we showed you when we first were here at the beginning of our shot before hitting another light pole at 17th and van ness knocking out the traffic lights
Good commute south 101 out of novato towards san rafael past freitas parkway, no brake lights just tail lights in some company but moving at the limit towards central san rafael into the Golden Gate Bridge. Minor delay for cash paying folks at bay bridge toll, no metering lights yet that will probably kick in a couple of minutes. Rohnert park north 101 signal lights not working offramp. Southbound 880 whipple stall lane two, 68 opa chico mattress in the left lane. Be 680, developing news from San Francisco, overnight Police Pursuit ended in two crashes, hospitalized bicyclist. Terry mcsweeney joins us live from the Mission District with new information. Reporter new information from the chp and new information from city workers. Looks like it is not going to be until noon before the lights go back on at 17th and south van ness that is going to be a problem, nobody is out here directing traffic. Theyve flares out now, ive seen people come through at 30 miles an hour, reason that we have