A 44-year-old man was behind bars Tuesday on suspicion of murder, drunk driving and other criminal charges in connection with a weekend traffic crash that killed another motorist and seriously injured her passenger on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad.
Andrew David Shaw of Escondido was heading south shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday when the Ford Raptor pickup truck he was driving rear-ended a Nissan Altima sedan on the southbound side of the freeway near Cannon Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The collision left a 31-year-old passenger in the car and its 53-year- old driver severely injured, CHP public-affairs Officer Hunter Gerber said. Paramedics took both women to a trauma center, where the latter was pronounced dead. Her name was withheld pending family notification.
An ambulance crew took Shaw to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Early the next morning, he was booked on suspicion of DUI, gross vehicular manslaughter, resisting arrest and first-degree homicide. Details on the reasons for the filing of the latter two charges were not immediately released.
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Shaw was being held in county jail in Vista without bail pending arraignment, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
