A California Highway Patrol officer and two others were injured early Friday in a wrong-way DUI crash on I-280 in Daly City.
According to the CHP, officers from both Redwood City and San Francisco stations responded to multiple 911 calls around 4 a.m. reporting a silver Honda traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-280 in the vicinity of SR-92.
The officers initiated a traffic break at Serramonte Boulevard in order to slow traffic and protect other motorists from the wrong-way driver. A CHP patrol vehicle with its lights and siren activated, encountered the wrong-way vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed just north of Hickey Boulevard.That's when the officers intentionally placed the patrol vehicle in the path of the wrong-way driver. The resulting crash caused injuries to one CHP officer, one citizen and the wrong-way driver.The suspect was being treated at a local hospital for injuries he sustained in the crash.
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