Two people were killed in a crash on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge late Wednesday night, and police activity amid the traffic backup brought the Thursday morning commute into San Francisco to a halt.
The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 11:21 p.m. Wednesday night and involved a Dodge Charger that rear-ended a big rig on westbound Interstate 80 just before Treasure Island.
The crash blocked all lanes and the coroner was called at 12:04 a.m. Thursday. By 12:33 a.m., the CHP has reopened one westbound lane. The CHP said minutes before the fatal crash, officers responded to a collision between a car and an SUV. It was not clear whether the two crashes were related. Hours after the crash, there was police activity Thursday morning on the upper deck past Yerba Buena Island. KCBS Radio reported the activity involved a person having a mental health crisis.
KCBS reporter Matt Bigler tweeted at 6:32 a.m. that the CHP had taken the person in distress into custody.
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