A fatal accident involving a car and a semi is slowing the morning community out of the South Bay.
A gold Infinity and a tractor trailer collided along northbound I-805 at H Street in Chula Vista just before 8 a.m. Monday.
California Highway Patrol officers and firefighters had the crash scene surrounded on the right shoulder.
Officers said the crash had broken the rear axle of the semi.
Truck driver Clarence Jones, 49, had parked along the shoulder when the semi lost air pressure. He was sitting in the cab with his two children when they heard a loud noise.
He looked out, saw a car on fire beneath the back of the trailor. Jones grabbed a fire extinguisher to put the flames out.
That's when he noticed the driver's lifeless body in the vehicle.
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Jones said he believes the driver may have been using the shoulder to bypass traffic.
A SigAlert was issued at 8:25 a.m.
Possible alternate routes would be surface streets to northbound I-805 beyond the crash site. Interstate 5 if you can or State Route 54 via the South Bay Expressway.
