A motorist was struck and killed early Friday on the Capital City Freeway in North Sacramento after stopping to remove debris from the roadway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash was reported about 1:53 a.m. on the northbound lanes of the Capital City Freeway south of El Camino Avenue, said Officer Justin Fetterly, a spokesperson for the CHP’s North Sacramento office.
According to Fetterly, responding officers found a person lying in the roadway and they were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators believe the motorist had stopped their vehicle and was attempting to remove a large piece of wood from the freeway when they were struck by a passing vehicle.
All lanes of the freeway in the Swanston Estates neighborhood were shut down for several hours following the crash but have since reopened.
No additional details about the victim or the vehicle that struck them were immediately available. The identity of the person killed is expected to be released by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office once family members are notified.
The collision remained under investigation, Fetterly said.
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Daniel Hunt is a local news editor for The Sacramento Bee; he joined the newspaper in 2013.