By the edhat staff
One person has died and one is critically injured front a vehicle collision off Highway 166 Friday.
At 8:13 a.m., Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to the area, less than a mile east of Rockfront Ranch inbetween Santa Maria and Cuyama.
Crews discovered a pickup truck had rolled and crashed about 200 feet over the side of the roadway.
There were two occupants inside the vehicle, one was pronounced dead on the scene and the other sustained critical injuries.
County Helicopter 3 airlifted the critical patient to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for treatment.
Highway 166 is closed in both directions.
This is a developing story.
Photos: SBCFD
RIP.
I send a good thought, a general prayer, when I awake to helicopters that I can assume are headed to Cottage.
There are far too many of these roll over incidents on the 166. RIP.
I was just driving that road about two weeks ago in the evening dark, and it was raining. I was going the speed limit and there were cars lined up behind me tailgaiting. WHY GO TOO FAST on a curvy slippery mountainous road?? WHY? It just doesn’t make sense.
R.I.P. Dude