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Man Gets Eight Year State Prison Sentence For DUI Crash Which Injured Three Oxnard Children

A man who was under the influence of alcohol, and driving without a license when his pickup truck crashed into a Ventura County home, seriously injuring three kids has been sentenced to eight years in state prison.

Sonny Curtis Ramos was driving at more than 60 miles an hour when he drove past a stop sign, and plunged into the home at Gisler Avenue and Elm Street in Oxnard. Three children in the home suffered everything from broken bones to bleeding on the brain in the November, 2016 crash.

Ventura County prosecutors say at the time of the crash, the 37 year old Oxnard man’s blood-alcohol content was more than double the legal limit.

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.