Officer. Welcome to the four this afternoon. Im heather holmes. Im alex savidge. Interviews tom vacar has been a long 580 all day. He reports an update on this story. Tom, where did the pursuit first start . Reporter it is such an odd case. Initially it started way out in the east bay. Lets take a look at the video that we shot. Before noon on westbound 580, a dublin district chp officer got a bolo to look out for a silver chevy impala being driven erratically. The pursuit went from the dublin district right through the san leandro district and into the oakland district to just past where 580 intersects with highway 24. The driver, in attempting to get away, got wedged between a transit shuttlebus and the median barrier. The chp then blocked him in and the driver ran into the chp car and the bus trying to get away. The chp officer, one of them was discharged a weapon but no one was struck and apparently no one injured. The officers overcame the resisting driver and transported the pers
Its thanks to a new law that requires car dealers to issue temporary license plates before a car hits the road with numbers that can be tracked. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. The bay area total authority says new data shows the state law is working as it was intended with a dramatic drop in the number of cars passing through the toll gates without paying. It was a ktvu investigation that drew attention to the problem six years ago. Prompting peninsula assemblymen kevin mullen to craft a new law. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama was the reporter then and shes at the bay bridge toll plaza tonight with a closer look at the positive impact of the new law. Reporter frank and julie, when we first reported on this, california told authorities and Law Enforcement officers had no way of catching these drivers. Thats because these generic dealer placards were so common. Now this initial data shows more drivers are paying their fair share. At toll crossings more money is rolling in
Divider which the police seem to be paying attention to. The shuttle bus apparently was just hit from the rear. There are several other car that are involved. At this point in time many of the marked cars have left and several new cars which are unmarked, investigated vehicles are on the scene. This has the 580 heading into oakland shut down, all the lanes. If you want to get on the 24 you will be able to do that but the back up is huge. If we can turn around here what we will do is show you the situation. The situation is that the cars are being diverted off to the left of your screen which would be going up on the 24, over toward the tunnel but nothing is coming through here nor is it likely to looking at the amount of investigation thats going on. We do not know if there were how many shots were fired, we certainly dont know if anyone was hit. We do know that there are no emergency vehicled on scene. We will have to keep checking things out and finding out what is going on. That is
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