2 People Killed in Separate Crashes
Two people were killed in car accidents within one hour of each other Wednesday night near Oxnard as highways across the Southland filled with holiday traffic, officials said.
One person was killed on Victoria Avenue north of Gonzales Road about 6:30 p.m., a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said. In a separate accident, a person died on Pacific Coast Highway south of Channel Islands Boulevard about 7:30 p.m., the CHP said.
No further information was available about the accidents or the victims’ identities, he said.
The Ventura County coroner’s office would not respond to calls Wednesday night.
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