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Three Dead After Car Slams Into Tree In Ventura County

Authorities are trying to determine when led to a traffic accident in Ventura County which left three people dead.

Ventura County Sheriff's deputies and firefighters were called to the 200 block of Poindexter Avenue in Moorpark Avenue early Saturday morning by reports of a crash.

They found a car had crashed into a tree across of Chaparral Middle School, and was on fire.  After the flames were extinguished, they found the bodies of three men inside.  The names of the victims haven'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.