A woman died after jumping from a freeway overpass in San Bruno following a car chase and standoff with South San Francisco Police, police said.
The woman, who had multiple outstanding arrest warrants, climbed the guardrail of the Sneath Lane overpass above Interstate 280 on Monday and jumped into traffic below, later dying from her injuries, police spokesman Brian Blake said in a statement.
Police found a car at 8:30 p.m. that was involved in a chase with another police agency. When officers tried to contact the woman, she brandished a pair of scissors while entering the driver’s seat of the car. An officer tried to stop her with a Taser, but failed.
The woman fled, driving into San Bruno and rammed several police cars multiple times while attempting to evade officers, Blake said.
Officers laid spike strips, which punctured the car’s tires on the Sneath Lane overpass. The woman barricaded herself inside the car and did not respond to officers or members of the Crisis Negotiation Team.
Police deployed pepper-ball projectiles into the car and the woman fled on foot toward the guardrail. Officers used sponge rounds and a K-9 to try to stop her, but she continued toward the guardrail, according to Blake.
“Moments later, the woman intentionally climbed over the guardrail and landed on the freeway below,” Blake wrote.
Officers immediately stopped traffic on the freeway and administered medical assistance. The woman was transported to a trauma center where she died from her injuries, Blake said.
Police did not name the woman and the incident remains under investigation.