A 20-year-old woman was killed early Wednesday after she got out of a car that had hit a center divider on Interstate 5 in Mission Hills and was struck by another vehicle, officials said.
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The incident began shortly before 1:15 a.m. when an 18-year-old driver for unknown reasons lost control and crashed her Infinity G37 coupe into the median on southbound I-5, south of Washington Street, the California Highway Patrol said.
The driver and her passenger both got out of the car, which was left disabled in traffic lanes.
A short time later, a 52-year-old man driving a black Toyota SUV ran into the vehicle and the passenger as she was standing on the freeway. The woman died before she could be taken to a hospital, officials said.
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Alcohol and/or drugs are not suspected to be factors in the crash, officials said.
CHP officers shut down all southbound lanes at Washington Street for a time while the crash was being investigated.
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The name of the woman who died was not immediately released.
