Teen girl suspected of trying to outrace CHP, crashing into vehicles during Oakland chase

It all started about 2:50 a.m. Thursday morning.

OAKLAND — California Highway Patrol officers pursued a stolen vehicle arrested a 16-year-old girl who the agency said rammed three of their vehicles and two other cars as she tried to get away early Thursday.

Officers also arrested a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, the CHP said. Six other people also were in the vehicle that the CHP pursued.

In a statement, the CHP said it all started about 2:50 a.m. when officers in the area conducted a registration check on a Hyundai Tucson at the intersection of West MacArthur Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. They added that the chase went from there, onto eastbound Interstate 580 and Edwards Avenue. It finally ended in East Oakland.

Nobody was injured.

The CHP said they arrested the girl on suspicion of vehicle theft, evading and assault with a deadly weapon. Authorities booked her into the Alameda County Juvenile Hall. The boys were cited for resisting arrest and released, the CHP said. All three are from the Hayward/Castro Valley area, according to the CHP.

The other six juveniles in the vehicle were detained but not cited.

The I-580 part of the pursuit ended when the girl exited at Edwards Avenue, the CHP said. From there, according to the agency, the Hyundai came to a dead end at the parking lot of Burkhalter Park on Edwards Avenue, then made a U-turn and drove toward the officers.

The pursuit then went down 73rd Avenue into East Oakland before the Hyundai entered a cul-de-sac on Catron Drive, south of Bergedo Drive. The CHP said the Hyundai then rammed into three of its vehicles and another car that was parked, and then yet another at Bergedo Drive and Robledo Drive.

The CHP said that at just about that time, officers used a legal ramming technique and disabled the Hyundai and bringing the pursuit to a close.