A San Francisco Police Department chase ended in a fiery crash.(Photo: AP)
A police chase in San Francisco on Saturday night ended with a fiery crash near the site of Super Bowl festivities<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that killed three people, according to local media.
The incident started at about 10 p.m. local time<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after officers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>tried to stop a car that was doing “doughnuts,” California Highway Patrol spokesman Vu Williams
told TV station KPIX.
Williams
told the San Jose Mercury News that the officer turned on his patrol car lights and siren and tried to pull the driver over, but the driver of the car sped off.
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The car started racing through red lights and police said they called off the pursuit, but the speeding car crashed into a taxi and burst into flames at the intersection of Brannan and Ninth streets,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
KPIX reported.
“The whole car burst into such intense flames — bang — nobody could survive,” witness Neal Taylor told KPIX.
The incident happened less than a mile from Super Bowl City festivities.
Williams told the
Mercury News that two people inside the car were badly burned and that a third was ejected onto the street. All were pronounced dead at the scene.
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The taxicab driver suffered minor injuries to his head and was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, the paper reported.
Friends of the victims
told a reporter from the KGO TV station <span style="color: Red;">*</span>that the victims had been at the NFL Experience at Moscone Center. The friends said they thought that the trio were on their way home.
The taxi driver complained of pain and was transported to San Francisco General Hospital,
the San Francisco Examiner reported. A passenger in the taxi reportedly fled the scene, and it was unknown whether that person was injured.
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