Suspected I-5 Hit-and-Run Dad Arrested in Imperial Beach

Originally reported 5:26 p.m. June 4.

A man suspected of leaving behind a boy believed to be his son after a rollover crash on Interstate 5 was arrested in Imperial Beach on Tuesday.

Angelo Fabiani Arroyo, 40, was arrested by California Highway Patrol investigators in IB around 2:55 p.m. Tuesday, according to a CHP news release. Arroyo will be booked into San Diego County Jail, accused of hit-and-run with injury and child endangerment, according to the release.

As Patch reported Monday:

"The crash was reported around 8:05 p.m. Sunday after a man driving a 2004 Nissan Titan registered to an Imperial Beach address crashed into a guard rail on southbound I-5 near the Rosecrans underpass, according to a CHP news release. For "unknown reasons," the vehicle drifted to the right and hit the guard rail, went down the embankment, hit a palm tree and landed on its right side about 10 feet above Jefferson Street in the city of San Diego.

The Titan's driver got out after the crash and freed his 4-year-old son from his car seat, causing the boy to fall about 10 feet onto dirt and a concrete sidewalk below. The driver then fled north on foot as witnesses came and took care of the child, who was then taken to Rady Children's Hospital with major injuries."

Officials later identified Arroyo as the man believed to be the driver in the crash.