GARDEN GROVE fire truck (GGFD photo).

A traffic accident in West Garden Grove early Monday morning took the life of a person when the vehicle crashed in the area of Knott Street and Stanford Avenue.

According to police, the incident took place around 12:10 a.m. Arriving police and firefighters found the vehicle “fully engulfed in flames” off the roadway between two trees on the southwest corner of the intersection.

The fire was extinguished and firefighters found the remains of a person, as yet unidentified. Members of the Garden Grove Police Department’s Neighborhood Traffic unit conducted the investigation. Anyone who saw the accident is asked to contact the GGPD’s Traffic Investigation Unit at (714) 741-5823.