Woman Badly Hurt in 4-Vehicle Crash
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California 118 was closed for about three hours Friday morning after a four-vehicle chain-reaction collision near Camarillo that seriously injured an 18-year-old Santa Paula woman and snarled rush-hour traffic, authorities said.
Michelle Ahner was in fair condition with head injuries, facial cuts and a broken elbow at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard after her compact car was struck by two vehicles, one head-on and the other from behind.
The accident occurred about 7:10 a.m. near Walnut Avenue when a tractor-trailer rear-ended a pickup truck waiting to turn left into an orchard, said Dave Cockrill, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s Ventura office.
The pickup spun into the oncoming lane and plowed into Ahner’s car, which in turn was struck from the rear by another car. Meanwhile, the semi swerved onto the right shoulder and sheared off a telephone pole, Cockrill said.
The driver of the pickup, 44-year-old Antonio B. Pedroza of Somis, was treated at St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo for a minor head laceration and released.
Police set up a detour to nearby roads and directed commuters around the wreckage until the road reopened at 10:10 a.m.
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