I woke this morning to the sound four or five pops off in the distance outside my window. I wasn’t sure if it was gunshots or whatever, so I went back to sleep. Within a few minutes we heard the sound of a helicopter orbiting our neighborhood, and later a light plane, so I figured there’d been some gunplay. I just hoped that it wasn’t some armed maniac loose in the neighborhood.
We found out later that the CHP had shot a woman driving a stolen car near our house. Apparently they’d picked her up in Concord (like 40 miles away) and chased her all the way to a cul-de-sac on the other side of the freeway from our place; when she got stuck there, she backed up and smashed into some CHP cars, which caused the cops to open fire on her. They took her to the hospital and she died later in the day.
Here’s a map showing how far the chase was. Note that in the middle there is the Bay Bridge, which she must have blew over. The Chronicle story said that there was originally a man in the car with her, who bailed out and got away just before they hit the bridge. Protecting him must have been pretty important, since it cost her life.
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Nice! Do Yahoo Maps allow plotting of waypoints because if so, there’s a couple recent epic police chases in the Baltimore/Washington area I could plot.
Yep, you can do this with our Maps APIs. One example of how this is http://www.runningmap.com.