Motorcyclist found dead next to Las Posas Road in Oxnard Plain

The body of the driver, a 24-year-old Camarillo man, was found just before 7 a.m. in a drainage ditch on Las Posas Road north of the Revolon Slough, CHP Officer Ryan Ayala said. He was found next to a yellow 2007 Suzuki.

The site is located on a section of Las Posas that runs through agricultural fields east of the Oxnard city limits. The section connects the Pacific Coast Highway near Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu to Hueneme Road.

Federal firefighters found the rider dead when they arrived, Ayala said.

CHP investigators determined the driver crashed between 1 and 5 a.m. Thursday while traveling southbound on Las Posas. He failed to negotiate a wide right turn and veered off the east shoulder of the road at an unknown speed. He struck two marker signs before crashing into the drainage ditch, officials said in a news release. No other vehicles appeared to be involved in the crash.