Castaic, CA : Pedestrian killed on Interstate 5 in SCV on Monday night, August 1, 2016

Coroner’s investigators Tuesday were seeking the identity of a person hit by multiple vehicles on the Interstate 5 freeway Monday night in the Castaic area of the Santa Clarita Valley.

“We don’t know what this person was doing on the freeway,” California Highway Patrol Officer Josh Greengard said Tuesday.

The CHP’s Los Angeles Communications Center began receiving a series of 911 calls around 8:45 p.m. Monday reporting a vehicle versus object, and also a pedestrian on the ground, in the two left northbound lanes of Interstate 5, Greengard said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department also received 911 calls.

Several emergency responders began looking for the pedestrian, and shortly before 9 p.m. CHP Sgt. Paul Reyes located the deceased person on the northbound I-5 just north of the area where the northbound and southbound lanes cross over each other near Castaic, Greengard said.

“The pedestrian was deceased and initial information indicates that the pedestrian had been struck by several vehicles,” Greengard said, adding the body was badly mangled and gender could not be determined.

“One of the vehicles which struck the pedestrian remained at the scene and the driver reported the collision via 911,” he said. “No other vehicle stopped at the scene.”

“There were a couple of witnesses,” he said. “So we’re hoping to learn more about what happened.”

The sole driver who stopped was described as a 38-year-old man from Midway City, Reyes wrote in a report.

Investigators with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Department were working to identify the victim, coroner’s spokeswoman Kelly Yagerlener said Tuesday.

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UPDATE: Pedestrian killed on Interstate 5 in SCV