California Highway Patrol was investigating a vehicle fatality in a remote section of San Diego County Sunday.

It was not immediately known how many people or vehicles were involved in a fatality that occurred on eastbound Montezuma Road near mile marker 7 just outside Borrego Springs about 2:20 p.m.

Officers shut down eastbound lanes of Montezuma Road between Chimney Rock and Borrego Desert Lookout for an indefinite period of time, a CHP dispatcher said. It was not known if there were other injuries.

--City News Service