Edhat Staff
Update by the edhat staff
November 17, 2022
The Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of the man who died after walking on Highway 101 near Fairview Ave last week.
The Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau is reporting the pedestrian decedent is 29-year-old Michael Saffold from Goleta. Saffold’s obituary can be read here.
By the edhat staff
November 11, 2022
A pedestrian was struck and killed by an Uber driver early Friday morning.
At 1:48 a.m., Santa Barbara County Firefighters responded to the northbound lanes of Highway 101, approximately 1/4 of a mile south of the Fairview Avenue exit.
Crews discovered a male pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle operated by a driver from the rideshare company, Uber.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene and his identity has yet to be released.
A section of the highway was closed for two hours while California Highway Patrol investigated the incident.
No further information is available.
“Pedestrian” at 2am on the highway?? Let’s clarify Edhat staff because your reporting isn’t close to descriptive or accurate. How about describing someone was walking across 101 at 2am and got hit by a car. The Uber part is irrelevant.
Agree.
This was the only information provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and we choose not to describe information that isn’t provided. If you have any more feedback, email us at info@edhat.com
-ed staff
Basic, are you suggesting Ed makes up info whether it’s confirmed or not? You’re clearly insinuating this person (who died by the way) is homeless and they should state that in their report even though the authorities have not said this. Perhaps there are other websites more suitable for you that don’t fact check.
3:59, I insinuated nothing. But I can tell you’re thinking the same as I was. And whatever the heck you’re talking about with the ‘other websites’ is worthless…
Reply to what? You saying you didn’t insinuated anything when you did? Relax.
Thank you Edhat for that, if that’s all that was given you that’s the report. I get it.
I’m not an Uber driver or a late night pedestrian attempting to cross highway 101. I thought it was worth some clarification. That’s apparently all the County had as far as details. Still wondering why the County felt the need to call out an Uber driver. That seems off.
This is how emergency personnel describe situations.
Pedestrian. Motorist. Motorcyclist. Bicyclist. etc.
Imagine if a responding officer radioed in.. There’s a guy not in a vehicle or bicycle struck by a vehicle. Much easier to say “Pedestrian struck by vehicle.” It’s clear and concise to know this person isn’t associated with any other form of transportation.
It’s quite a stretch of common usage to talk about “pedestrians” on the 101. Technically fits the definition I guess…. kinda like a pedestrian on the Santa Barbara Airport tarmac.
The headline suggests the Uber driver was at fault for this tragedy. Why not keep it more generic – something like – Individual struck and killed by vehicle while crossing Highway 101. “…we choose not to describe information that isn’t provided.” What nonsense – you even mentioned Uber twice in the article – strange.
That’s a long headline and not at all how emergency responders report things.
Pedestrian – makes sense, not a bicyclist, motorcyclist, or motorist.
And how does it suggest the driver was at fault? nothing in the article states that.
If the Fire Dept is the one saying it was an uber driver, it would be the same as saying a Pedestrian struck and killed by a taxi.
And Ed was commenting on Basic insinuating the person was homeless.
“Pedestrian struck and killed by an Uber driver”
is the headline when anyone comes to Edhat that’s what they see. I think that’s what doesn’t make sense to me.
Then email Ed instead of kvetching
Sad situation aside, it is strange and twisted in the wording of this news. Somebody walking on a freeway isn’t the typical kind of pedestrian, and mentioning specifically it’s by a Uber driver is inappropriate. It sounds like the driver is at fault.
Caught it on the scanner. SO said he still had a pulse as they waited for medics. Don’t know much else
Pretty disappointing, @EdHat. Somehow the Indy managed to come up with the title, “Man Struck and Killed by Car While Crossing Highway 101,” which is a heck of a lot more accurate given the facts known so far.
Having worked in this field, sometimes irrelevant information gets broadcast in the beginning to get units dispatched quicker. The callers likely first statement was “I’m an Uber driver and I just hit someone on the freeway”. And so dispatch went with what they had rather than hyper focusing on details and delaying a response. As to what Edhat put out, their job is to relay facts they have and not fill in the gaps. We can all do that on our own and we will all come to the same conclusion of “WTF was this person doing walking on the highway at 2am”
Pedestrians do not cross the freeways. That is just not normal on a daily basis, and never was. Just plain stupid for anyone to go across the freeway to get to the otherside. It should be stated someone or a person in the report/article By the edhat staff.
‘Razzle Dazzle’
John Winger: “Why did the chicken cross the road?!”
Soldiers: “To get from the left to the right!”
John Winger: “He stepped out of rank, got hit by a tank!”
Soldiers: “He ain’t no chicken no more!”
– Bill Murray and the platoon in the 1981 film ‘Stripes’ –
Ed does not have to regurgitate what the Fire Dept. said – take a lesson from the Indy on how to handle such a situation in a more sensitivity manner.