Corvallis, OR : California man identified in I-5 crash on Friday, September 1, 2017

Oregon State Police officials say Terence Jay Shaw, 51, of Riverside, California, was the only person injured in an explosive tractor-trailer collision that shut down Interstate 5 southbound at Highway 20 shortly after midnight Friday morning.

The incident happened when a 2016 Freightliner pulling a trailer and operated by Shaw was traveling northbound on I-5 when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle drifted out of the travel lane. The vehicle traveled through the gore point at Exit 233, struck a guardrail and then struck a vertical pillar supporting the Highway 20 overpass.

A passing driver stopped and helped pull Shaw from the vehicle before it became engulfed in flames. Shaw was transported to a Portland-area hospital for injuries sustained in the crash and subsequent fire.

I-5 northbound was closed until 7 a.m. The Albany Police Department, the Albany and Tangent Fire departments, and the Oregon Department of Transportation assisted State Police at the scene.

A handful of bystanders watched on the east side of the crash as smoke and flames billowed from the cab and the trailer.

A man taking pictures at the scene said several explosions woke him up from his sleep at a nearby hotel.

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California man identified in I-5 crash