Woman Leads Fairfield Officers On Chase, Crashes Into City Vehicle: Police

SOLANO COUNTY, CA -- A San Francisco woman was arrested Monday after she allegedly led officers on a vehicle pursuit in Fairfield and struck two vehicles, causing injury to two people including an officer, police said.

At 11:48 a.m., Fairfield police received a call of two suspicious people acting erratically inside a Ford truck parked in a lot in the 1300 block of North Texas Street.

The caller said the driver appeared to be under the influence and unfit to drive. The truck then went over a sidewalk and drove away before officers arrived, police said.

Police quickly located the truck, which had stopped in the roadway near Texas and Jackson streets. An officer approached and told the driver to turn off the vehicle, but she refused and drove west on Texas Street, police
said.

According to police, the driver stopped again in the roadway at Texas and Madison streets. As the officer pulled up from behind, the truck's driver twice reversed and struck the front of the patrol car.

The driver allegedly accelerated against the patrol car to the point where the truck's tires lost traction and began to spin and smoke, police said.

The truck's driver then fled west on Texas Street, turned south on Pennsylvania Avenue and collided with a city of Fairfield Public Works vehicle at Woolner Avenue. The driver of that vehicle suffered moderate
injuries, police said.

The truck driver then fled south on Pennsylvania Avenue, crossed state Highway 12 and collided with a police patrol car, causing moderate injuries to the officer inside, police said.

The vehicle began to flee north again on Pennsylvania Avenue but stopped at Highway 12, where officers removed the driver from the vehicle.

After a struggle, both the driver and her passenger were taken into custody.

The driver, 30-year-old Veronica Byrne of San Francisco, was arrested and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, hit-and-run, DUI, evading an officer and resisting arrest, police said.

The passenger, 42-year-old Carlos Gomez Jr. of Vacaville, was arrested and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of being under the influence and resisting arrest, police said.

The driver of the public works vehicle and the officer who suffered injuries were taken to a hospital, where they were treated and later released.

By Bay City News Service

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