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2 Oxnard Teen-Agers Die in Truck Accident : Crash: The group was returning from a graduation party when the pickup overturned on the Ventura Freeway. A third girl was seriously injured.

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Two Oxnard teen-agers were killed and a third was seriously injured early Saturday as they returned from a graduation party in a crowded pickup truck that spun out of control on the Ventura Freeway and flipped over, pinning them beneath its wheels.

Rosalinda Santana, 17, who had just received her diploma from Hueneme High School and was planning a two-week snorkeling trip to study marine biology, was pronounced dead at the scene after the accident, which occurred about 2:40 a.m. on the northbound Ventura Freeway near Rancho Conejo Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.

Her schoolmate, Jennifer Rodriguez, 17, a junior at Hueneme High who had recently moved from Fillmore, died at Los Robles Regional Medical Center, according to senior deputy coroner Craig Stevens.

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A third Hueneme High student, junior Veronica Ochoa, 17, was in serious condition at Westlake Medical Center on Saturday. Ochoa, an athlete who aspires to be a police officer, suffered multiple injuries when she flew through the back window of the pickup truck and was crushed under a wheel, according to family and friends.

Three of the seven other teen-agers who had packed into a 1991 Toyota pickup after a graduation party in the Hollywood area were treated for minor injuries and released. The others either survived unscathed or refused treatment, police and hospital officials said.

Stevens said he had seen no evidence that alcohol consumption contributed to the accident, and several of the victims’ relatives said they were sure the teen-agers had not been drinking. Results of toxicology tests performed during the autopsies will not be available for three weeks, Stevens said.

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The driver of the truck, a 17-year-old Hueneme student, apparently lost control and swerved across several lanes of the Ventura Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. The pickup flipped over, ejecting six teen-agers.

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