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Woman, Dog Struck And Killed By Train In Ventura County

A 75 year old Ventura County woman and her dog are dead, after they were hit by a passenger train. Oxnard Police say Kathleen Elo was walking east on Gonzales Road just after one Thursday afternoon when she walked into the path of an oncoming Amtrak train.

The Oxnard woman and her dog were both pronounced dead at the scene. The northbound train made an emergency stop. No one on board was hurt.

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.