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An ambulance in San Diego. Photo by Megan Wood for inewsource

A person died Saturday in a traffic accident on an Interstate 5 offramp in the Shelltown neighborhood, the California Highway Patrol reported.

The accident happened at 1:22 p.m. when a black Ford Mustang traveling north on I-5 swerved, went off the freeway, rolled and landed on Roosevelt Avenue near Eighth Street, according to a CHP incident report.

Firefighters cut apart the Mustang to reach the driver, who was taken to a hospital but pronounced dead about 40 minutes after the crash, according to the CHP.

A description of the victim was not immediately available.

— City News Service

Chris Jennewein is founder and senior editor of Times of San Diego.