Interstate 5 crash leaves one man dead

OCEANSIDE - A 69-year-old man was fatally injured in a single-vehicle crash off Interstate 5 near Camp Pendleton, authorities said today.

Nicholas Anthony Dicarlo of Carlsbad lost control of his southbound 2014 Lexus IS 350 north of Harbor Drive shortly after 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, apparently due to a blown tire, according to the California Highway Patrol and the county Medical Examiner's Office.

The sedan veered off the freeway and crashed into a tree, pinning Dicarlo in it, authorities said.

Emergency crews pried the driver out of the wreckage, and he was taken to Scripps Memorial Hos...