BATON ROUGE — Three people were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after a vehicle fire along I-10 westbound at the Washington Street exit. 

St. George Fire officials said that crews responded to the crash around 2:45 a.m. and found two people sitting on the side of the interstate and another person inside a car that caught fire.

The fire closed the interstate to all westbound traffic for about an hour as crews worked to put out the vehicle fire.