A well-known Ventura County educator has died days after a head on traffic collision which investigators say involved a DUI driver.
The crash happened October 16th in Thousand Oaks. Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies say Fred Rosenberg was driving southbound on Erbes Road near Hauser Circle when a northbound car swerved into his lane, and hit him head-on.
The 88-year-old Cal Lutheran professor was seriously injured. The Westlake Village man died at a hospital a few days later. Rosenberg taught biology at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks for more than two decades. he was currently teaching a microbiology class at the university.
Before Cal Lutheran, Rosenberg was a professor at Northeastern University in Boston for nearly four decades.
Deputies say they initially arrested the driver of the other car on a felony DUI with injuries charges. After Rosenberg died, Michael Seidman was charged with felony vehicular manslaughter. The 38-year-old Thousand Oaks man was a UCLA football star who played in the NFL for four years.
