{"id":247918,"date":"2026-04-02T04:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247918\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:35:07","slug":"police-chase-closes-some-eastbound-lanes-of-the-bay-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247918\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chase closes some eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police chase is causing traffic delays on the eastbound portion of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday evening, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/bay-bridge-partial-closure-april-1-2026-police-activity\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three eastbound lanes on the Bay Bridge west of Treasure Island were closed about 7:30 p.m. after the driver of a car pursued by police exited the vehicle and jumped down the lower level of the bridge, according to Caltrans.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard and the San Francisco Fire Department were called to the scene as a precaution in case the driver fell into the water, CBS News said.<\/p>\n<p>About 8 p.m., one eastbound lane was reopened.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no word on the whether the driver has been located.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police chase is causing traffic delays on the eastbound portion of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,1692],"class_list":["post-247918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sfgnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}