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Man Recovering After Being Hit By Police SUV On South Coast

A man is recovering from injuries he suffered when he was hit by a police SUV on the South Coast. It happened early Saturday morning, on the 200 block of East Pleasant Valley Road in Oxnard.

Officers were responding to a call of a man needing help when they hit a 27 year old man who was lying on the street. Investigators think the man might have been on drugs. He’s expected to recover.

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.