FILLMORE : Car Plunges Off Road; 2 Hospitalized

A Fillmore man was in critical condition Sunday after the car in which he was riding careened off South Mountain Road, flew 160 feet and plunged down a deep embankment.

Adrian Galvan, 18, of Oxnard was driving west, near Balcom Canyon Road, about 5:30 p.m. Saturday when he overcorrected on a curve and went off the side of the road, California Highway Patrol officials said. The car went through a barbed wire fence and across a field, hit a tree and went down the embankment.

Passenger Jeff Asenas, 18, of Fillmore was listed in critical condition with head and chest injuries in the intensive care unit of Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. Galvan had chest injuries and was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit of Santa Paula Memorial Hospital. Another passenger, 17-year-old Michelle Alvarez of Moorpark, was treated at the Santa Paula hospital and released.

Ventura County firefighters and search and rescue team members spent more than three hours freeing Galvan and his two passengers from their 1987 Chevrolet Spectrum, said Fire Department dispatcher Paula Aliano.