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Passenger dies, driver arrested on DUI charges following traffic collision in Ventura County

David von Diemar
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An automated iPhone emergency crash notification alerted first responders to what they say was a fatal DUI collision in Ventura County.

It happened just before 4 a.m. Saturday on Highway 118 north of Camarillo.

CHP officers say a speeding car veered off the road, hit a power pole, and then rolled over multiple times. A 25-year-old man who was a passenger in the car was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers arrested the driver on a DUI charge.

The names of the driver and victim in the crash haven’t been released, but they are both from Oxnard.

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.