Bay Area's 'Worst Commute' Gets Some Relief
Commuters on one of the most congested stretches of freeway in the Bay Area will get some much-needed relief with an added carpool lane.
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Commuters on one of the most congested stretches of freeway in the Bay Area will get some much-needed relief with an added carpool lane.
Officers arrested a Sacramento man suspected of car theft Monday night after a car chase led to a chase on foot and ended with the suspect up in a tree in unincorporated Solano County, California Highway Patrol officials said.
The California Highway Patrol was on Tuesday still trying to determine the exact cause of Monday's crash, but said it is looking into the possibility of a mechanical failure.
More than a dozen people were injured Monday when a tour bus veered off Interstate Highway 80 and crashed through 50-60 feet of perimeter fencing.
One person was killed and two others were injured in a crash on westbound Interstate Highway 80 in San Pablo early Monday morning, a CHP officer said.
An Oakland man headed to Reno with his family was killed when the SUV he was driving crashed and overturned on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Albany Monday morning, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
The California Highway Patrol said a chain-reaction crash involving at least six big rigs and nearly 40 vehicles overall has killed one person and shut down westbound Interstate 80 during a heavy snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada.
Many Bay Area commuters know about the tougher carpool requirements on this highway. Geraldine Carine asked this Good Question: Why is I-80 the only place in the Bay Area that requires 3 or more to carpool?
An Arizona woman was killed in a solo-vehicle crash on Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo Wednesday morning, CHP Officer Chris Parker said.
Traffic congestion was up 11 percent nationwide over the last year, with the Bay Area being one of the main culprits.
Friends and family of slain Vallejo musician Dewey Tucker said Wednesday's arraignment of four suspects in his shooting death one year ago was "bittersweet."
Police have made an arrest related to the suspicious death of a 44-year-old man whose body was discovered near an Interstate 80 on-ramp in Fairfield Tuesday afternoon.
A man was killed after crashing his car off of Interstate Highway 80 in Berkeley Friday morning during a pursuit that started after he had allegedly injured an Oakland police officer during an incident several hours earlier, a police spokesman said.
A man died in a crash involving a big-rig on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Albany Wednesday morning, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
A Sierra snowstorm packing high winds downed a power line along Interstate 80 in west Reno, forcing the temporary closure of the highway at midday on Tuesday and leaving more than 3,300 people without electricity.
Authorities were searching for a suspect after three people were injured in a hit-and-run accident on westbound Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo Wednesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
One person has been killed in a big-rig crash in Vallejo Monday morning on the Columbus Parkway exit ramp off Interstate 80.
Caltrans and several companies are facing a wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday by lawyers representing the family of a man who was killed when his big rig toppled over the side of the Bay Bridge in November 2009.
A man who wandered onto Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo Sunday morning was struck and killed, a CHP officer said.
