Im stuck in my (ps3) game, due to a really annoying problem. I fast travelled into riverwood and accidentally hit the shout button, this ended up knocking a few people over (nobody even died!) oops.... but no big deal right? However every single person in the town is determined to murder me, and guards wont even arrest me or accept my yield. I went into the inn which of course autosaved and they keep killing me within 30 seconds (about 30 npc's are attacking me) Is there a way to make them stop and just throw me in jail?

LOL. I can't say that's ever happened to me before. They will accept my yield, almost always, unless I have an outlandish bounty. What is your bounty when this is happening?

Its a glitch afaik, I cant even try to talk to them! I dont even think I have a bounty. The whole town chases you right across skyrim! And guards in other cities just attack you as well :/ I think my save is ruined

I have this glitch too. I was in Markarth and I accidentally went into a room I wasn't supposed to. Got 5 bounty, every freakin guard in the whole government building started attacking me! I had no weapons out and I tried to interact with them.

What I did was just book it away ASAP, I went to my house, slept there for like a day or 2, then went out and the guards let me pay my bounty.

Save early, save often.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me. Jockeying around in the chair I managed to bump the shout bumper on the 360 controller. Fortunately I had just saved prior to entering the building. Not fun when the all come after you.

When this happens to me I run like hell out of town far far away. Finally after everything has stopped chasing me. I return to town and they will let me pay my bounty or go to jail.

Reload the autosave from before you arrived.

As a general rule though,disable all autosaves and get used to saving manually and often.
This will cut down loading times, lag and freezes by a lot.

ever thought about killing them before they killed you

If they start attacking you and you don't have a weapon out, draw it and then sheathe it, and it should trigger them just simply trying to arrest you instead of attacking you.

However, this won't work if this started with them trying to arrest you, and you engaged in the dialogue and then simply canceled out of the conversation before resolving it. If they get you in the dialogue where you have to choose to either convince them to look the other way, bribe them, surrender and pay the fine, or surrender and do jail time, and instead of choosing one of the options you just cancel out of the conversation, they will not give you the option to surrender again, and it's run or death for you in that case.

Just sprint out of town, get far away from it then come back later and you can pay the fine and all will be well. They might chase you half way to whiterun but eventually they will go back home. Swim underwater if they are killing you on the way.