For the second time in less than a week a person has been killed on Interstate 5 in the North State after getting hit by a vehicle.
The latest deadly collision happened early Monday morning in Tehama County.
According to the California Highway Patrol, a Medford, Oregon, man was driving north on I-5 around 4:45 a.m. when he stopped on the right shoulder south of Adobe Road and got out of his vehicle.
That’s when a man driving a 2014 Toyota Prius approached and hit the man, who was standing on the east shoulder of the freeway, the CHP said.
The man, identified as 34-year-old Zachary D. Mitchell, died at the scene, the CHP said in a news release.
The CHP news release did not say why Mitchell stopped and got out of his vehicle.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the collision, the CHP.
Monday’s fatal crash happened four days after a vehicle struck and killed two people on I-5 in Anderson on Thanksgiving evening.
That collision happened around 5:35 p.m. last Thursday on northbound I-5 south of Balls Ferry Road.
A man riding a motorcycle hit a deer, which caused him to lose control and slide into the center median, investigators said.