Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Car Crashes Into Apartment Building, Causing Evacuation

The Parkside Apartments complex in the 900 block of 143rd Avenue was evacuated this morning as a precaution.

Bay City News 

A woman who accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake while
driving through a San Leandro apartment complex parking lot this morning
crashed into a utility closet, severing a gas main and prompting an evacuation, a fire department spokeswoman said.

The woman's Mitsubishi Montero Sport four-door SUV hit the ' gas main in the 900 block of 143rd Street around 8:15 a.m., Alameda County fire spokeswoman Aisha Knowles said.

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Gas began leaking and about 30 residents were evacuated.

The high-pressure gas leak was hissing for nearly two hours before it was capped around 10 a.m., Knowles said. Residents have since been allowed to return home.

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The woman's car had some front-end damage but the woman appeared uninjured, though she was "a little shaken up" from the crash, Knowles said.

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