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Five Hurt When Pickup Plunges Into Ventura County Apartment Building

(Ventura County Fire Department photo)
Five hurt when pickup smashes into Oxnard apartment complex

Five people have been hurt, three critically, after a pickup truck veered through an intersection and plunged into an apartment building.

It happened just after 4:30 Monday afternoon at the intersection of California and Elm Streets in Oxnard.

At least two of the injured were children pinned under the pickup inside of the apartment. There’s no word yet on what may have led to the crash.

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.