Roundup: 1 dead in head-on crash outside Oxnard, sinkhole closes Ventura street
Here's a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies:
1 dead in head-on crash near Oxnard
A man was killed in a head-on crash Friday night on Fifth Street east of Oxnard city limits, authorities said.
The accident was reported around 10:35 p.m. near Fifth and South Wolff Road, according to California Highway Patrol and Ventura County Fire Department information. The site is between Del Norte Boulevard and Pleasant Valley Road on Fifth, also known as Highway 34, as it cuts through agricultural properties on the Oxnard Plain.
Oxnard Fire Department crews responded to the two-vehicle crash and assisted two patients, said Battalion Chief Mike McCaslin on Saturday.
A man believed to be in his 30s died at the scene, he said. A female patient suffered minor injuries.
No other information was immediately available.
Sinkhole blocks Victoria Avenue
A sinkhole closed a section of southbound Victoria Avenue in Ventura Friday afternoon, officials said.
A temporary fix was in place by Friday night, the Ventura Police Department reported.
The incident was reported to police around 12:15 p.m. as a large pothole on Victoria, just north of Avocet Drive. The site is near the entrance to a shopping center with a Walmart and Trader Joe’s in the 1700 block of Victoria.
Arriving officers found a large sinkhole that could have impacted four of the five traffic lanes along the stretch, police officials said.
Southbound Victoria was closed at Ralston Street and city streets personnel were called in.
City crews inspected the hole and covered it with a large metal plate, allowing lanes to reopen by 10 p.m. Friday, the police department said in a tweet Saturday morning. Permanent repairs will be undertaken during the week.
The sinkhole apparently developed after the failure of a metal storm drain pipe that was more than 60 years old, officials said.
Ventura County’s unusually wet winter has resulted in other recent sinkholes and storm drain issues, including a sinkhole outside Santa Paula High School on March 1 that swallowed a teacher’s car and a large hole that developed around a failed storm drain pipe in a neighborhood outside Camarillo on March 10, where flooding and mud evacuated nearby homes. In January, several sinkholes opened in a Ventura neighborhood south of Foothill Road due to erosion around a decades-old stormwater pipe.
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