Friday, October 9, 2009
Breaking News / Law & Order
Update: CHP Now Says It Actually DID Run Over Pedestrian Killed on Highway 280
Posted
By Joe Eskenazi
on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:59 AM
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Earlier today, California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Shawn Chase denied television reports that a CHP patrol car was one of several vehicles to strike a woman killed after wandering onto the highway late last night.
Chase moments ago called
SF Weekly and said that, yes, the CHP did indeed run over the victim -- technically.
"Blood and body parts were spread out so far, over two or three lanes," he says. "It's hard to be delicate when describing this situation -- it was like an explosion. There were body parts everywhere."
Chase added that many other cars may have driven through body parts and blood at the gruesome scene on Highway 280.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office told SF Weekly that it has not yet identified the victim and Chase feels "it may be quite some time" before an ID is made. "There's not a whole lot of body left," he said glumly.
Tags: 280, CHP, killed, pedestrian, Shawn Chase, Image
About The Author
Joe Eskenazi
Bio:
Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
"Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
