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Simi Valley Police Officer Seriously Injured In Traffic Accident

A Simi Valley Police officer was seriously injured when his motorcycle, and a pickup truck collided.

It happened just before 5 p.m. yesterday on Tapo Canyon Road. The officer was apparently southbound when the pickup either turned onto Tapo Canyon, or tried to make a U-turn at Tapo’s intersection with Los Angeles Avenue.

The officer’s name hasn’t been released. The pickup truck’s driver was uninjured.

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.