Crime & Safety
Driver Of Motorhome Stolen In SF Injured After Police Chase
A San Ramon thoroughfare was closed overnight after a car carrying a stolen motorhome ran a red light, police said.
SAN RAMON, CA — A driver in a stolen motorhome was arrested and hospitalized with injuries after a Wednesday night crash that shut down a portion of Bollinger Canyon Road overnight, police said.
Eric Games, 42, of San Francisco remained hospitalized at John Muir Health's Walnut Creek Medical Center but will be booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion of felony charges of recklessly evading an officer, vehicle theft, hit-and-run causing injury and possessing stolen property once he is medically cleared, police said in a statement.
Games will be booked on a no-bail warrant because he remained under supervised release in San Francisco following two incidents there, police said.
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The incident began after street cameras with license plate-reading technology alerted San Ramon police to a motorhome reported stolen in San Francisco. Police pulled it over near Camassia Way and North Wedgewood Road, but the car sped off and police began to chase the car, the department said.
The motorhome moved about two miles in two minutes. Games was heading westbound on Bollinger Canyon Road when he ran a red light at Alcosta Boulevard and crashed into another car around 8 p.m., police said. The motorhome flipped onto its side, slid down Bollinger Canyon and stopped near Market Place.
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The driver of the other car walked away with minor injuries.
Police approached the motorhome but did not see Games inside and believed it was possible that he ran away from the scene, police said. Officers called in an armored car and a Danville Police Department drone, which showed officers that someone was lying unresponsive beneath a couch, police said.
San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District medics extricated Games and brought him to the hospital.
Investigators shut down both directions of Bollinger Canyon from Alcosta to Camino Ramon
The road remained closed throughout the night. Police said at 5 a.m. the road was reopened.
The case remained under investigation by the San Ramon Police Department.
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