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Car Plunges Off South Coast Freeway; Body Of Man Found Inside

A man is dead after his car plunged off a South Coast freeway.

The car was apparently headed eastbound on Highway 118 in Simi Valley when it plunged off the roadway, and into a wash near the freeway’s Tapo Canyon exit. The wreckage was spotted Sunday afternoon by a woman who could see it from her backyard.

The man, who was from Long Beach, was pronounced dead at the scene. His name hasn’t been released yet.

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. 
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