UPDATE (2 p.m.): Investigators are releasing more details about a crash that killed three people on Highway 1 near Lompoc Tuesday morning.
The California Highway Patrol says the driver of a 2008 Kia was heading southbound on the highway south of Constellation Road just before 6 a.m. when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes of traffic and collided with a 2017 Chevy.
Officers say the three people in the Kia were killed. Their names, ages and where they are from has not yet been released, according to CHP.
The driver of the Chevy, identified as a 52-year-old Lompoc man, and his passenger, a 19-year-old man also from Lompoc, were taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries, officers said.
CHP says drugs or alcohol are not suspected as factors in the crash at this time and it appears everyone involved was wearing a seatbelt.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to contact Officer Hinojosa with CHP’s Buellton office at (805) 688-5551.
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ORIGINAL STORY: Three people are dead after a crash on Highway 1 near the Constellation Road Northbound off-ramp near Lompoc.
SBC Fire officials say there were two cars involved in the fatal crash that occurred just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
Three people in one car were all killed. The second car had two people in it who suffered minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital via ambulance.
Santa Barbara County Fire officials said both lanes of Northbound Highway 1 just south of Constellation Road were blocked due to the fatal crash.
The roadway reopened around 10 a.m. according to Caltrans.
The accident is under investigation.
