Santa Barbara’s Collision-Prone Areas Listed in “Safer Streets” Survey
John Palminteri
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Whether it’s perception or reality, the number of traffic-related collisions and injuries on Santa Barbara streets could be going up.
One of the more common crashes this year has been a city street rollover – that involves a car hitting another vehicle, in the back left or right side and then ending up on it’s side or roof.
In the last few weeks, there have been rollovers on State St. at Pueblo, La Cumbre near Foothill, Mission St. at the underpass and De la Guerra Street near De la Vina.
A survey called “Safe Streets for All” lists several locations with traffic collision information on each page along with street data.
The “Safe Streets” survey aims to identify and address high-collision areas and inform the city’s safety action plan.
You are asked to fill out the: City-Identified Priority Street Input Survey by December 12, 2025.
You don’t need to respond to every area, but for the routes you travel you are asked in English and Spanish for participation.
The questions are : “Do you support the city designing a concept plan for this street?”
and “What personal challenges have you had when driving, biking or walking along this street?”
The city will get quite a bit of information from the public from the survey but the public will see at every intersection on every page they go through some data about the number of accidents at each location.
Here are the ten areas in the focused survey:
1. Bath Street | Alamar Avenue to Mission Street2. Canon Perdido Street | State Street to East Street3. Calle Real | Hitchcock Way to Pueblo Street4. Castillo Street | Mission to Micheltorena Streets5. Chapala Street |Alamar Avenue to Mission Street6. De La Vina Street | Mission to Micheltorena Streets7. Las Positas Road | State Street to Calle Real8. Nopal Street | Cota to Quinientos Streets9. Olive Street | Micheltorena to Carrillo Streets 10. State Street | Highway 154 to Mission Street
Even if your street isn’t listed, your input is still valuable.
Sam Korkis is the owner of the Illusion Smoke Shop on State Street near Mission St. “This corner I have seen like ten accidents, bicycle, car, one day motorcycle. I see them all.”
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Katie-Grace Gibson is a downtown worker nearby, and says she sees it is not just a driver issue or a bicyclist issue. “I think it’s both. I think it is sharing the road. Understanding that everybody is trying to get where they are trying to be.”
Another worker, Ellie Moore says, “as a driver in Santa Barbara I think that the bikes aren’t really an issue watch them watch out for them.”
An ongoing concern is about the speed of e-bike riders and how drivers are having a harder time judging the speed.
Moore says, “they go so fast and a lot of kids don’t know how to navigate, signal if you are going to turn and keep your distance.”
Korkis says he agrees with efforts to make the roads safer and has helped a victim in the past.
“I helped one guy, like a year ago.The ambulance take him to the hospital,” he said.
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