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Ventura County Sheriff's deputy seriously injured in Moorpark traffic accident

An impromptu memorial has popped up at the Thousand Oaks intersection where a pro-Israeli demonstrator was fatally injured Sunday.
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
An impromptu memorial has popped up at the Thousand Oaks intersection where a pro-Israeli demonstrator was fatally injured Sunday.

Officer was responding to an emergency call on his motorcycle when the crash occurred.

A Ventura County Sheriff’s deputy responding to an emergency call has been seriously injured in a traffic accident.

The officer was on a motorcycle headed west on Los Angeles Avenue in Moorpark Wednesday afternoon when a car turned in front of him, leading to the collision. Investigators say he had his lights and siren on at the time of the crash.

He suffered major injuries, but is reported to be in stable condition. The officer’s name hasn’t been released.

The driver of the car was uninjured. The CHP is handling the investigation into the accident.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.