Driver dies after truck veers off I-15, crashes into tree near Normal Heights

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A 21-year-old man was killed Wednesday night after his pickup truck veered off Interstate 15 near the Normal Heights neighborhood and crashed into a tree, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday.

The driver, whose name was being withheld pending notification of his next of kin, was headed on southbound Interstate 15, north of Adams Avenue, in a white Toyota Tacoma, according to CHP Officer Kimberly Gonzalez.

For reasons still being investigated, the truck went off the right shoulder just after 9:30 p.m., struck a large eucalyptus tree and caught fire, Gonzalez said…

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