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November 30, 2021
Santa Barbara County District Legal professional Joyce E. Dudley introduced as we speak {that a} felony criticism has been filed towards Raul Gonzalez, 48, of Santa Barbara. All expenses stem from a collision on November 27, 2021, at E. Cota St. and N. Salsipuedes St. in Santa Barbara, which resulted within the demise of Kenneth Sterling. Mr. Gonzalez was the motive force of a Jeep Patriot that rear-ended a moped pushed by Mr. Sterling.
Mr. Gonzalez is charged with the next felony counts: one depend of gross vehicular manslaughter whereas intoxicated, in violation of Penal Code part 191.5(a) and one depend of driving inebriated inflicting, in violation of Car Code part 23153(a). Moreover, it’s additional alleged that Mr. Gonzalez personally inflicted nice bodily harm to a sufferer over seventy years of age inside the that means of Penal Code part 12022.7(c).
Mr. Gonzalez was arraigned as we speak, November 30, 2021, and entered not responsible pleas to the fees. Mr. Gonzalez’s case was continued for Preliminary Listening to Setting on December 16, 2021 in Division 10 of the Santa Barbara Superior Court docket. Bail has been set at $100,000.
Motorcyclist Recognized in Deadly DUI Collision
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November 29, 2021
The Santa Barbara Police Division has recognized the motorcyclist that died within the November 27, 2021, deadly site visitors collision as 78-year-old Santa Barbara resident, Kenneth Warfield Sterling Sr.
This case remains to be beneath investigation.
Motorcyclist Killed in DUI Collision
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November 27, 2021
On November 27, 2021, round 1:55pm, the Santa Barbara Police Mixed Communications Middle acquired a number of experiences of a critical harm site visitors collision close to the intersection of East Cota Avenue and Salsipuedes Avenue. The collision concerned three autos and a motorbike.
Santa Barbara Police, Hearth, and AMR Paramedics responded to the scene. Officers found an grownup male unresponsive laying within the roadway. A motor officer was first on scene, rendered support, and shortly hearth, and paramedics arrived.
Within the early phases of the investigation, it seems the motorcyclist was driving south within the 600 block of North Salsipuedes Avenue, close to Ortega Park. A Jeep SUV was additionally driving south behind the motorcyclist and rear-ended the bike, in the end ejecting him roughly 85 ft earlier than touchdown within the roadway. The Jeep then collided with a parked Dodge Ram Decide-up truck. The bike was struck with such pressure it careened riderless half a metropolis block earlier than colliding with a parked Toyota sedan within the 500 block of North Salsipuedes Avenue.
Tragically, the motorcyclist sustained critical accidents and was pronounced useless on the collision scene. The Crucial Accident Reconstruction Group responded and is at present investigating this collision. The roads on this space will probably be closed to all autos and pedestrians for a number of hours, please keep away from the world.
The motive force of the Jeep and believed to be at-fault within the collision, Raul A. Gonzalez, a 48-year-old Santa Barbara resident is suspected of being DUI on the time of the collision and was positioned beneath arrest. He was transported to Cottage Emergency Room from the scene of the collision for analysis and discharged from the hospital with out sustaining accidents. Gonzalez is at present being charged with felony vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and felony DUI inflicting harm / demise. He was booked within the Santa Barbara County Jail with $1,000,000 bail.
This case remains to be beneath investigation and no different data is accessible at the moment. The decedents identify is being withheld till household could be notified.
By an edhat reader
November 27, 2021
Deadly collision at Cota and Salsipuedes. Appears to be like like a moped and two autos.
