Solo Accident Driver Pronounced DOA
By Gazette Staff Writers — Thursday, November 7th, 2024
On Friday, November 1st, at 2:30 a.m., Ventura County Fire Department, AMR Paramedics, and California Highway Patrol were dispatched to a cell phone crash notification on Highway 126 near Camino Del Rio, just east of Piru, near the Los Angeles County line. Arriving firefighters reported a solo vehicle overturned with one person trapped and unresponsive. Per CHP, the driver, who was alone in the 2019 Jeep Wrangler, was pronounced dead at the scene. In an update Friday afternoon, CHP officials said a 29—year-old Fillmore woman was driving the Jeep and had travel onto the right shoulder, which was covered with dirt and brush. It wasn’t immediately known how fast the vehicle was going or why it went off the roadway. The Jeep continued on the shoulder until it struck a drainage culvert, authorities said in a news release. The Jeep flipped over onto its roof and came to rest on the right shoulder west of the culvert. The vehicle sustained major damage. The driver’s name wasn’t released pending notification of family. Investigators don’t yet know whether drugs or alcohol were a factor, according to the release. The accident remains under investigation. Anyone with information about Friday’s collision is asked to call the CHP Moorpark-area office at (805)553-0800. |