Military

Serviceman Killed in I-5 Convoy Pileup ID'd

By City News Service

Published March 3, 2021 at 11:55 AM PST

This story was published more than 3 years ago.

Equipment Operator Constructionman Aaron Fish, deployed with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5’s Detail Guam, conducts maintenance in preparation of the installation of an external asphalt cement transfer valve located on the barrel-melter unit of the Asphalt Batch Plant, Dec. 18, 2019.

Authorities Wednesday released the name of a Navy man who died in a freeway pileup involving a convoy of military trucks en route to Camp Pendleton.

Aaron Fish, 26, and fellow members of Ventura County-based Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 were headed south on Interstate 5 in San Onofre shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday when a car suddenly stopped in front of them, causing the five military trucks to begin rear-ending each other, according to the Navy and the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office.

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The vehicle Fish was driving wound up crushed between two of the others in the convoy, killing him at the scene.

Paramedics took five other sailors — three men and two women, all in their early 20s — to Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital and Mission Hospital in Orange County for treatment of injuries ranging in severity from serious to minor, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The CHP and naval authorities were investigating the accident.