The COVID-19 coronavirus public health emergency may be
keeping most motorists off the Bay Area freeways, but the California Highway
Patrol says those wide-open lanes are not a license to speed.
“We’ve had a series of accidents up here today, and
people need to slow down,” said CHP Officer Miguel Camarena, who works in
Solano County. On Saturday night, the CHP was dealing with six significant
accidents in Solano County – none resulting in major injuries, he said.
CHP’s Contra Costa Office in Martinez has posted a similar
warning on its Facebook page, with the title “This is Not Your
Racetrack.”
“Remember that we are still out here and enforcing
traffic laws. Just because there is a wide-open freeway doesn’t mean it’s your
race track,” the CHP Contra Costa post reads. “Please slow down and
drive safely to where you must go.”
Complicating the picture Saturday were scattered rain around
the Bay Area, and high winds at some of the toll bridges, including the Benicia-Martinez
Bridge. There were even isolated reports of flooding Saturday in San Francisco
and Redwood City.
And on Sunday morning, with the heavier rains, flooding was reported
on several more Bay Area freeways, including Interstate Highway 880 near
Whipple Road in Hayward, El Camino Real in Mountain View, and the Interstate
Highway 580/state Highway 24 connector in Oakland.
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Source: NBC Bay Area
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