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Update by edhat staff
Highway 154 was shut down for a period of time Monday following a head-on traffic collision.
At 1:49 p.m., Santa Barbara County Firefighters responded just east of the entrance to Lake Cachuma with two engines and a Battalion Chief.
Two sedans sustained massive front-end damage and three people were injured with two critical injuries and one moderate injury. One of the critically injured patients was flown via helicopter to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital while the other two were taken by ground ambulance.
No extrication was required of the patients in the vehicles.
Highway 154 was closed in both directions but reopened two hours later.
The cause of the collision is under investigation.
Photo: SBCFD
Reported by Scanner Andrew
Two vehicles have collided head on at Hwy 154 just east of the Lake Cachuma entrance
The single worst stretch on the 154 is the area around the lake entrance. Slow vehicles towing recreational equipment enter into fast moving traffic and blind curves. A simple solution is a stop sign there. And the solution to the overall issue of the traffic is to add several stop signs along the length, thereby causing the 154 route to now take longer than the 101, which will cause all the Waze & Google & Apple Maps etc to route people to the 101, decreasing the congestion. But these suggestions are too simple and will not happen. Deaths will.
Those raised up trucks are nothing but testosteroned out youth. The downfall of our society.
If only we were all born adults and skip the youth part. Your truck comment is seriously stupid.