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Five people were injured near the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday night when an SUV crashed into two highway patrol vehicles, crushing them against a wall.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers were at the scene to marshal anti-vaccine mandate protesters who had gathered near the side of the northbound lanes across the iconic California bridge.
Aerial footage of the incident at around 6 p.m. shows the Ford Explorer overtaking a CHP highway sweeper truck, but clipping the front of it as it drives past.
Pictured: People stand near a street sweeper and another vehicle that had crashed into a flashing traffic sign on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021
The SUV then swerves across the front of the sweeper truck, crashing into the side of another CHP highway patrol vehicle that is parked next to a concrete barrier separating the protesters from the three-lane highway.
As the SUV swerves across, it also knocks the sweeper truck into the back of the second highway patrol vehicle, and is also shown to knock into a worker.
The footage then showed the SUV with its doors open as someone checked on the driver of the car, who has not been identified by officials.
CHP said that two of its
