Man killed in accident on 14 ID’d

The body of a man found Tuesday night near the Via Princessa onramp has been identified as a Sylmar man who was apparently crushed under a pickup truck as he tried to repair it.

The deceased man was identified as Gerardo Silva, of Sylmar.

A call was received by 911 operators at 9:48 p.m. to report a collision at the Via Princessa on-ramp to southbound State Route 14, according to CHP Officer Tony Polizzi of the Los Angeles Traffic Management Center.

Shortly after 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, Silva was stopped on the Via Princessa Way on-ramp to southbound lanes of Highway 14 in Canyon Country, on the right shoulder, Officer Josh Greengard of the California Highway Patrol wrote in a news release issued Wednesday morning.

“He was under his vehicle performing a repair when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle rolled backward,” he wrote.

“The vehicle’s right front tire came to rest on Silva who sustained fatal injuries as a result,” Greengard wrote.

Paramedics with the Los Angeles County Fire Department received the emergency call at 9:49 p.m, Fire Department spokeswoman Vanessa Lozano said.

“The call was for a traffic collision with person trapped,” she said.

Paramedics arriving at the scene reported a man trapped under a Ford F150 pickup truck.

Firefighters freed the man from under the truck shortly before 10 p.m., Lozano said.

Silva was pronounced dead at 9:56 p.m. by paramedics with Fire Station #107.

The deceased man’s family was notified of the death at the scene, Greengard said.