A motorcyclist traveling eastbound on Foothill Road near Hwy. 154 was killed April 29 when he and a vehicle turning westbound onto Foothill from Cieneguitas Road collided. According to Officer Don Clotworthy of the California Highway Patrol (CHP), 28-year-old Lucas Arthur Grant of Santa Barbara, driving a 1995 Kawasaki eastbound on Foothill Road directly behind an unidentified passenger vehicle, collided with a mini-van turning westbound onto Foothill from Cieneguitas. Santa Barbara City Firefighters and an AMR Ambulance responded to the scene and began CPR on Grant before he was transported to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of the collision remains under investigation.

- Martha Lannan