AnonymousSource: California Highway Patrol
On March 2, 2019, at approximately 1025 hours, a fatal traffic collision occurred at Casa Dorinda Life Care Community. A fifty-three year old Santa Barbara resident was backing in a 2014 Hino box truck as a seventy-seventy year old Santa Barbara resident was walking in the roadway to the rear of the truck. At that time, a collision occurred between the truck and the pedestrian. The pedestrian suffered fatal injuries as a result of the collision, and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
This collision occurred on private property and therefore no public roadways were affected. The collision remains under investigation at this time. Victim information will be released through the Santa Barbara County Coroner’s office after the next of kin have been notified.
Such a sad thing to have happened!
Don’t we have the highest pedestrian death rate in the country ? Poor guy. My best friend of 20 years was hit and killed at Hollister Ave.
Highly doubt we have the highest rate in SB! This is a horrible situation that shouldn’t have happened… Talk about negligent driver! Sad for all involved, anything like this is.
So sad, my heart felt condolences to both the victim and the drivers family..
Can’t blame the driver until the investigation is over. Those big trucks have bells (or some noise maker) when backing that should have given notice to the person behind it. Could be the man was in the driver’s blind spot. Who knows? Wait and see.
There are many jobs that have time pressures. As long as safety is truly Job One, these tragic events will occur. Who hasn’t seen a truck operated in a dangerous way, usually speed?
Flicka: The old guy may have heard the backup sound and not been able to move quickly enough.
No, not even close. CA is not even in the 10 worst states and city wise Bakersfield is at 12 th worst for the country.
Sometimes drivers back up without looking–have it happen weekly. Sometimes people walk in back of moving vehicles–have that happen weekly too. Sometimes people are hard of hearing. Whatever the cause, it’s a tragedy. Leave it at that.
But, it wouldn’t surprise me if SB made that list – not because of bad drivers/peds, but because there are simply more pedestrians out and about. Our average population and habits are not exactly representative of the rest of the States.