3 KILLED IN AREA TRAFFIC CRASHES.

Byline: Douglas Clark Daily News Staff Writer

Two auto crashes resulted in three fatalities Friday.

In a third crash, a man suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol was hospitalized with severe injuries after his car collided with another vehicle.

Elizabeth Ann Kline, 48, of Castaic, was killed at about 9:15 p.m. when the car that she was driving northbound on the Ventura Freeway veered off the road south of Ventura Road in Oxnard, police said.

Police estimated that Kline's Ford Thunderbird had been traveling at 65 to 70 mph when it slammed into a roadside ditch. She was partially ejected and pinned on the driver's side of the car as it rolled onto its roof, police said.

In Oak View, two men died when the vehicles they were driving collided head-on.

Ventura County medical technicians said Frank J. Fragiacomo, 71, of Oak View and William W. Tate, 63, of Oxnard were both dead at the crash scene.

Tate was traveling south on Highway 33 in Oak View when the Dodge Challenger he was driving crossed the center line and collided with a Dodge Colt being driven north by Fragiacomo, authorities said.

Police said Brian Cook of Camarillo was driving his Dodge Stealth at 90 mph when it collided with another vehicle and spun out of control, eventually hitting a tree.

Cook, 35, was hospitalized in serious condition at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard.

According to police, the crash occurred Friday at about 6:40 p.m. on Pacific Coast Highway 1, south of Hueneme Road.

Cook's car veered from the fast lane into the slow one, where it hit the rear of a Mercury Topaz driven by Michael Joseph Burns, 44, of Ventura, officials said.

The collision caused the Topaz, which was traveling at about 60 mph, to spin into the road's center median, officers said.

Although Burns complained of some pain, he was not hospitalized.