Overview

• Officers tried to stop a speeding Mercedes around 3:40 a.m. on westbound I-580 near Eden Canyon Road in Castro Valley.
• The driver fled toward San Leandro, attempted the westbound I-238 exit to East 14th Street, and crashed into a sound wall.
• Two occupants in the Mercedes were pronounced dead at the scene, while a third passenger was hospitalized with major injuries.
• A pursuing CHP unit also crashed into the same sound wall while taking the exit; the vehicles did not collide, according to CHP.
• Two CHP officers sustained major but non-life-threatening injuries, the victims' identities remain undisclosed, and the Golden Gate Division’s Multi-Disciplinary Accident Investigation Team is leading the probe.