Driver killed in crash with ambulance on Highway 118 Tuesday night
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A Camarillo woman was killed in a broadside crash with an ambulance Tuesday night on Highway 118 west of Moorpark.
The incident was reported around 10:20 p.m. east of Balcom Canyon Road, said California Highway Patrol Officer Ryan Ayers.
The woman was identified Thursday as Elizabeth T. Graham, 65, of Camarillo, according to the Ventura County Medical Examiner s Office.
Graham had been driving a 1998 Saturn S-series westbound on the 118, Ayers said. She was wearing a seatbelt and was the only person in the car.
An American Medical Response ambulance, also known by the initials AMR, was headed eastbound on the 118 back to Moorpark, Ayers said. No patients were aboard the ambulance. Only the driver, a 59-year-old Moorpark man, was in the vehicle.
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A driver died late Tuesday night after veering into oncoming traffic and colliding with an ambulance on State Route 118 in Moorpark, authorities said.
The woman, believed to be in her 60s, was driving a Saturn sedan westbound near Balcom Canyon Road when she suddenly turned into eastbound traffic, according to Ryan Ayers, a spokesperson with the California Highway Patrol.
An ambulance owned by American Medical Response slammed into the passenger side of the woman’s car around 10:20 p.m., according to Ayers.
Ayers called it a “violent collision.”
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The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while the ambulance driver was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.