You can blame last night's gridlock on Interstate 280 on a trio of fleeing criminals.
Police say at about 6 p.m., officers were responding to a shooting heard in the Bayview when they saw a vehicle take off at a "high rate of speed." The cops chased the car, but lost sight of the suspect vehicle after it crossed Third Street.
Another officer in a marked police car spotted the vehicle and chased it onto Interstate 280, creating a horrific traffic jam, according to police.
The driver in the suspect vehicle tried to exit the freeway, but lost control on the offramp near 25th and Pennsylvania streets, where it hit another car, police said. Not yet giving up, the suspects hopped out of the car and ran into a storage container business.
Officers busted one man stuck in barbed wire on top of one of the storage container units, while a second suspect was arrested
near 26th and Indiana streets. The third suspect was found in the
bushes near the I-280 on ramp, where he was also arrested. Follow us on Twitter at @TheSnitchSF and @SFWeekly
There were no injuries, barring a few scrapes and cuts on officers who had to navigate the barbed wire, looking for the first suspect.
