freeway transition ramp crash
Officers investigate after a person was killed during a traffic crash in San Diego Sunday morning. Credit: OnScene.TV

A man was killed Sunday morning after apparently being hit by a vehicle on a freeway transition road near Balboa Park in San Diego, authorities said.

The alleged hit-and-run crash occurred at about 5:20 a.m. on the transition from northbound Interstate 5 to the northbound Cabrillo (163) Freeway, the California Highway Patrol reported.

It was not clear if the person died at the scene or at a hospital.

No further information was immediately available.

City News Service contributed to this article.