Metrolink train crash kills driver in Camarillo Monday afternoon

CAMARILLO, Calif. – A Metrolink train carrying eight people crashed into a car, killing its male driver, at the Las Posas Road and Fifth Street railroad crossing between Camarillo and Oxnard around 2 p.m. Monday, according to the Ventura County Fire Department.

The car stopped for a traffic signal at Fifth Street when it came to rest on the train tracks, according to the Ventura CHP.

The Ventura CHP detailed that the train failed to stop on time when it collided with the white Lincoln north of the intersection.

The train eventually stopped a quarter mile from the initial crash after continuing east and the Lincoln driver was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Ventura CHP.

Nobody on the train was injured, but the northbound section of Las Posas Road and the eastbound section of Fifth Street are closed as of 7:00 p.m., detailed the VCFD.

The cause of this train crash remains under investigation.