Four Injured in Five Car Pile-up in Goleta

On June 18, 2015, a five car pileup stops traffic and causes injuries to four of the people involved. According to Santa Barbara’s Noozhawk, Alan Forsyth, 65 apparently went into diabetic shock, lost control of his vehicle and rear-ended one of the cars backed up waiting for the traffic light to change at the northbound off-ramp. Officer states Forsyth was driving approximately freeway speed on the off-ramp and then has diabetic shock, collides into one vehicle which collides into the next and the next.

Five vehicles were damaged and four people were transported to the hospital with injuries.  Two had complaints of pain and two had major injuries, one person with a head laceration and another with a possibly fractured right leg.