Edhat StaffUpdate by Santa Barbara Police Department
On Sunday night, November 29, 2020 at 11:42 P.M., Santa Barbara Police Officers responded to a report of a rollover traffic collision on Cabrillo Boulevard near Los Patos Way.
Further investigation revealed a vehicle traveling north on Highway 101 exited at Hot Springs Road. The vehicle continued north through the intersection with Cabrillo Boulevard without stopping and struck the curb and light pole on the opposite corner.
The impact caused the vehicle roll several times up the embankment along the Highway 101 Southbound Offramp where it eventually came to rest. The driver (and sole occupant) of the vehicle was ejected and later found deceased. The decedent is a male in his 20’s. The identity of the driver is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.
Reported by Scanner Andrew
Santa Barbara City Fire is on scene of an accident on the 101 SB Hot Springs offramp. Dark gray sedan with major damage on its roof in the bushes.
Amazing people are blaming this on the left-hand offramp versus considering that perhaps something impairing the driver’s judgement was involved. Sure left-hand exits are very strange, but it is clearly signed and you’d really have to be distracted or impaired (perhaps by a medical emergency) to make an error this bad unless it were your first day ever getting behind the wheel of a car. Lefthand peel-offs for carpool lanes and lefthand division splitting of freeways are very common all throughout southern CA. There could be more to the story.