Edhat StaffUpdate by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
The Coroner’s Bureau is releasing identity of the woman who died in the lagoon near 1024 Ocean Road, Santa Barbara, on Saturday 2/12/22. The decedent is 33-year-old Ericka Andrews of the San Leandro area.
Cause and manner of death are pending and expected to take around 6 weeks.
By edhat staff
UC Police are investigating an incident that left one person dead and a vehicle crashed into the lagoon at UC Santa Barbara Saturday morning.
According to scanner traffic, after 4:00 a.m. authorities responded to the lagoon near the Commencement Green lawn and discovered a silver sedan had crashed off the road into the lagoon embankment.
The person associated with the vehicle was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Daily Nexus was first to report on this incident and stated the individual was not affiliated with the university, according to UC Santa Barbara Police Department.
The cause of the accident is unknown and the identity of the victim has yet to be released.
This is a developing story.
An individual passed away after a car drove into UCSB’s lagoon early this morning. The individual was not affiliated with the university, according to UC Santa Barbara Police Department. The cause of the accident is unknown. pic.twitter.com/WsYTvIwp3F
— Daily Nexus (@dailynexus) February 12, 2022
I didn’t know cars could easily access this area. Seems suspicious though, a crash like that shouldn’t be able to fatally harm someone. Doesn’t look like water got into the cab.
Probably drug-related, maybe an overdose. I guess we will see what the autopsy results reveal but the crash was probably a result of her death.
You people who feel the need to conjecture, guess, or otherwise weigh in on something that requires you to only read/listen, and not opine, are repugnant. Someone died. WTF do you care about the circumstances? If you’re just curious, again, read about it and don’t feel compelled to comment. Your participation (sic) here degrades the value of the forum.
You may be capable of not speculating but human nature is to wonder. It doesn’t make people bad to wonder, it makes them human.
Wonder to yourself. Just because you have a voice (or in this case a keyboard and EdHat account) doesn’t mean you have to use it. Conversely, there are times when one should, even SHOUT, and does not.
Both are poor choices.
I don’t understand the mindset that if somebody died, no one should say anything except condolences. This is not the forum for condolences. Loved ones are not coming here to find comfort.