CHP: Santa Paula couple sustains
minor injuries in Fillmore collision

January 06, 2016
Santa Paula News

A traffic collision in Fillmore last week left two Santa Paula and a Fillmore resident injured, just the latest series of accidents in the area that also caused the deaths of two local residents.

The latest accident according to the California Highway Patrol occurred Wednesday, December 30 approximately 12:10 p.m. on the 200 block of East Telegraph Road (Highway 126).

At that time the Fillmore Police and Fillmore and Ventura County Fire departments as well as an ambulance responded to a two-vehicle, injury traffic collision.

Upon arriving on scene emergency responders found that Iris Martin, 87, of Fillmore had left her residence at the El Dorado Mobile Home Park and failed to yield to on-coming traffic as she turned left onto East Telegraph Road. 

Her vehicle collided with another driven by 70-year-old Michael Sparkuhl who was traveling eastbound on East Telegraph Road with his passenger Deborah Sparkuhl, 65, both of Santa Paula.

During the collision Martin’s vehicle came to rest in the eastbound traffic lanes, while Sparkuhl’s vehicle crossed the westbound traffic lanes and came to rest against a guardrail along the north side of the highway.

Martin, Michael Sparkuhl and Deborah Sparkuhl were treated at the scene by EMS personnel and transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.

In the four days leading up to the collision two Santa Paula women died in separate accidents that also occurred in the Fillmore area.

On December 27 a Santa Paula area woman, Maria Velasquez, 45, was killed as she ran into Highway 126 traffic traveling on the Sespe Creek overpass about 5:21 p.m.

Velasquez was transported to Ventura County Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

The driver of the vehicle that struck Velasquez stopped at the scene and was not held.

Monday, December 28, another Santa Paula woman, Maria Rodriguez Medina, 57, was killed when a vehicle she was a passenger in struck a pickup truck that had not yielded the right-of-way on Old Telegraph Road and 7th Street.

The collision occurred at 8:25 p.m. and the driver of the pickup fled on foot.

Medina was transported to Santa Paula Hospital where she died. The driver of the vehicle she was riding in, a 60-year-old Santa Paula man, sustained moderate injuries in the collision and was transported to the Ventura County Medical Center.

The driver of the pickup truck turned himself in to the CHP the next day and was arrested on various charges including felony vehicular manslaughter. 





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