Travel on our local freeways was a challenge Saturday night as back-and-forth pursuits, inadvertent spike-strippings and messy crashes made navigation difficult at best.
“Came home from the city to Lafayette and the west bound lanes just west of the tunnel were a mess!” one local traveler wrote us a little after 11 pm last night.
Much of the trouble seemed to stem from the multi-agency pursuit of a car and driver wanted for running down pedestrians in Oakland, catching local police off guard as it sped back and forth on Highway 24 between Orinda and Lafayette at speeds in excess of 100mph. California Highway Patrol and local units attempted to intercept the vehicle, deploying spike strips in an effort to slow it down or stop it but incapacitating seven innocent vehicles instead…