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Arrest made in connection with fatal hit-and-run collision in Conejo Valley

A CHP unit stopped a wrong way driver on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County by ramming the vehicle.
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A CHP unit stopped a wrong way driver on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County by ramming the vehicle.

Detectives say they identified car involved in incident, leading to the arrest of a Thousand oaks woman.

There’s been an arrest in a bizarre hit-and-run collision which left a Ventura County man dead.

On December 9, dispatchers received a barrage of 9-1-1 calls about a man trying to break into moving cars on Janss Road, near Highway 23 in Thousand Oaks.

Deputies found Robert Paul Quiroz Junior on the ground. The 31-year-old Thousand Oaks man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sheriff’s detectives identified the car they believe was involved in the fatal incident. They say Tracy Nadine Smith of Thousand Oaks was the driver. The 51-year-old woman was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a collision causing injury or death.

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.