Authorities Searching For Car Over Side Of Road Find Decomposed Body

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST (CBSLA.com) — An autopsy was scheduled Tuesday on a badly decomposed body found near Angeles Forest Highway in the Angeles National Forest north of La Cañada Flintridge.

The body was discovered at about 12:15 p.m. Monday, after Los Angeles County firefighters and sheriff's deputies were sent to the highway on the report of a car over the side.

No car was found, according to the California Highway Patrol, but instead they found the "badly decomposed" body of a male along the highway at mile marker 20.79.

Information about the person's age was not immediately available.

(© Copyright 2017 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. City News Service contributed to this report.)

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