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Driver sought in connection with fatal collision in Ventura County

It happened Tuesday morning on northbound Highway 101 in Camarillo. One drivers was fatally injured, and second fled scene.

Onr driver is dead, and a second is being sought following an early morning crash which led to a collision on Highway 101 in Ventura County.

The initial crash happened just before one a.m. Tuesday, on northbound 101 just north of Carmen Drive in Camarillo.

CHP officers say a speeding Lexus made a dangerous manuever towards the side of the road, and smashed into a retaining wall. It then flipped over into a traffic lane.

An oncoming car then slammed into the disabled vehicle. The driver of the Lexus was taken to a hospital, where he later died. The name of the 40-year-old Oxnard man hasn't been released.

Officers are still looking for the person driving the second vehicle. They say the driver apparently fled the scene on foot.

There's no word on whether drugs or alcohol are belived to have been factors in the crashes.

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.