The California Highway Patrol says a suspect who had committed a vehicle code violation — failing to display license plates — and then fled officers was chased throughout Oakland on Tuesday night, leading to a dangerous collision on a busy arterial street.
The suspect, identified by an Oakland police officer’s radio broadcast only as a Hispanic male, sped away from the intersection of 73rd Avenue and San Leandro Street, at the Coliseum BART station, according to a police radio feed that The Oaklandside listened to on Tuesday night just before those broadcasts were encrypted yesterday.
Driving a red Toyota Corolla, the driver then got onto I-880 headed north and eventually got off the freeway near downtown, where he ran a red light and collided with another vehicle at 17th Street and Castro Street. That second car jumped the curb, shearing off a fire hydrant at the corner of a Chevron station…