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Santa Maria man killed in weekend crash outside Los Alamos
Santa Barbara Co. Fire Dept.
and last updated 2021-04-26 18:22:03-04
Authorities have identified the person killed in a weekend crash on Highway 101 between Orcutt and Los Alamos as Angel David Morales of Santa Maria.
According to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, authorities received initial reports at approximately 6:25 a.m. Sunday of a car crash off Highway 101 southbound at the Solomon Grade with the driver believed to have been ejected from the vehicle.
The driver, identified as Morales, 22, was declared dead at the scene.
No one else was believed to have been in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
By Tom Bolton, Noozhawk Executive Editor | @tombol
April 26, 2021
Jonathan Garcia-Bogarin (GoFundMe photo)
Authorities have released the names of two young men killed in separate vehicle crashes Sunday in Santa Barbara County.
Jonathan Garcia-Bogarin, 23, of Goleta, was fatally injured when his 2021 Jeep Gladiator overturned while he was driving off road near West Camino Cielo, along the ridge of the Santa Ynez Mountains, according to Raquel Zick, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau.
The crash occurred just after 12:30 p.m. about 4 miles west of the Winchester Canyon Gun Club, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Garcia-Bogarin, who was partially ejected and was pinned by the pickup’s wreckage, suffered major trauma and was declared dead at the scene by Santa Barbara County firefighters.