A driver who didn’t see traffic ahead of him on Interstate 80 in Sacramento collided into a vehicle Monday, leading three vehicles to catch fire and killing one person in the flames as firefighters rushed another two people to a hospital, authorities said.
A pickup driver headed east on Interstate 80, east of Interstate 5, about 4:30 p.m. failed to observe cars stopped ahead of him and slammed into a Toyota Tacoma, said Officer Justin Fetterly, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s North Sacramento office.
The collision caused a chain reaction in which flames engulfed three vehicles, Fetterly said…