The CHP said the driver of a pickup truck veered off Interstate Highway 80 near the University Avenue exit in Berkeley and hit the patrol car where the officer was helping someone in a disabled car.
A driver was arrested for alleged DUI after striking a horseback rider in Knightsen on Friday. The horse was killed from the crash and the rider was taken by a helicopter to a hospital.
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 Nisan 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.
Per Bay Area News Group, a twentysomething Hispanic man was shot and critically injured while driving on Highway 4 early Saturday night. This, too, marks the second targeted shooting on the freeway in two days, police added in a statement.
According to the news organization, the California Highway Patrol’s Contra Costa office was called to the Bailey Road off-ramp to westbound Highway 4, the agency said in a release.
CHP investigating second shooting on Highway 4 in Pittsburg within 2-day span
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CHP investigating Highway 4 shooting overnight
KTVU s Elissa Harrington reports on the second shooting along Highway 4 in Pittsburg within the last two days.
PITTSBURG, Calif. - One person was hurt in a freeway shooting overnight on Highway 4 in Pittsburg, the second shooting on that same stretch of highway in just two days.
The California Highway Patrol has not said if the two shootings are connected, but they both unfolded just one exit away from each other.
Late Friday night near the Bailey Road exit, a driver traveling westbound was struck by gunfire.