A fire broke out Tuesday afternoon off northbound Highway 101 south of Clark Avenue near Orcutt. The fire was first reported as a vehicle fire that spread to vegetation at about 3:10 p.m., according ... Read More

Santa Barbara County and Santa Maria firefighters are working to put out a vegetation fire sparked by a single vehicle which caught fire and became engulfed in flames on northbound ... Read More

A vehicle fire spread to nearby vegetation Tuesday afternoon east of Highway 101 in Orcutt. At approximately 3:10 p.m., personnel from the Santa Barbara ... Read More

A vegetation fire is currently burning near Orcutt east of Highway 101 on North Clark Avenue, according to the Santa Barbara ... Read More

A driver traveling 117 mph on Highway 101 in Carpinteria was stopped in the wake of increased enforcement by CHP for Monterey Car Week. Read More

Once again, the state of California has survived Monterey Car Week. While the formal event may be constrained to the Monterey Peninsula at the top of the Central Coast, it starts on the roads that ... Read More

Caltrans issued a press release with before-and-after photos implying that it has fixed the drainage problem at the Castillo Street underpass beneath Highway 101. I went and took the above photo, and ... Read More

A classic Volvo was significantly damaged in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 101 near Buellton that injured three people on August 15. Read More

At least one patient had to be extricated from a vehicle Saturday after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 101 at Jonata Park Road north of Buellton. Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo One ... Read More

CHP officers came to the aid of an elderly Army veteran after the man unknowingly drove more than 70 miles from his Arroyo Grande home and became stranded on Highway 101 in the Goleta area. Read More

A series of crashes on Highway 101 caused repeated delays for motorists across Santa Barbara County over a span of less than 24 hours Thursday and Friday ... Read More

Two northbound Highway 101 lanes were closed Wednesday morning after a multi-vehicle collision involving three to four vehicles, per the California ... Read More

A two-vehicle traffic collision resulting in injuries was reported on August 2 on southbound US-101 just north of | Contact Accident Reports (888) 657-1460 for help if you were in this accident. Read More

Courtesy SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - Construction crews will continue work on the US 101 pavement rehabilitation project in ... Read More

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Most of us have had a heavy foot moment at some point, that little surge of '?just testing the acceleration'? on an empty stretch of highway. But there's a pretty significant gap between a quick ... Read More

Four people were injured, two critically, in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1 south of Lompoc Tuesday, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire ... Read More

Santa Barbara County Fire and Lompoc Fire helped put out a car fire after three vehicles were involved in a crash 11 miles north ... Read More

Dylan Monson, 22, of Isla Vista died Monday after being ejected from his motorcycle in a mutli-vehicle crash on northbound Highway 101. Monson had been lane splitting and traveling at high speed when ... Read More

A project to replace the northbound and southbound bridges at Refugio Road along US 101 near Refugio State Beach continues ... Read More

At 3:16 Friday morning Santa Barbara County Fire dispatched 17 units to the scene of a head-on collision between a Chumash Casino passenger bus and a vehicle in Los Alamos on the southbound side of ... Read More

All southbound lanes of Highway 101 near Carpinteria were blocked Thursday night after a multi-vehicle traffic collision along the highway, per the ... Read More

A head-on crash involving a wrong-way driver sparked a fire on Highway 101 north of Los Alamos the morning of June 26, 2026. Read More

The north and southbound Gaviota Roadside Rest Areas along Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County will close starting July 1. According to the California Department of Transportation, the closures are ... Read More