Nine teenagers in a stolen Hyundai SUV led California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed chase in Oakland on Interstate Highway 580 and city streets Thursday morning; ramming patrol vehicles before officers disabled their vehicle with a spike strip, authorities said.The CHP said officers ran a registration check on a Hyundai Tucson at 2:52 a.m. at W. MacArthur Blvd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which showed the vehicle had been reported stolen.
According to the CHP, the vehicle made a U-turn and drove towards officers while fleeing southbound on 73rd Avenue into East Oakland.The chase reached a cul-de-sac on Catron Drive, south of Bergedo Drive, where the CHP said the Hyundai rammed three patrol vehicles and a parked vehicle, subsequently crashing into another vehicle at Bergedo and Robledo Drive, the CHP said. Officers disabled the vehicle with a ramming technique and detained nine teenagers who emerged from the vehicle, the CHP said.