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Authorities Identify Two Ventura County Residents Killed In Traffic Accident

Authorities are now identifying two Ventura County residents killed when the car they were in plunged off a state highway outside of Ojai.

CHP investigators say Absalom Rivas and Ruth Zuniga were in a car headed north on Highway 33 near Nordhoff Ridge Road just before 5 p.m. Friday when the vehicle veered off the road.  It landed upside down in a creek.

Both Santa Paula residents were pronounced dead at the scene.  CHP investigators are trying to figure out what 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.