Luna’s SUV, said Watson, “Continued forward and collided with the back of a Chevy Tahoe,” another SUV, and then came to a stop.
No one, including the unidentified drivers of the other two vehicles, was seriously injured.
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Collision course: A Santa Paula Firefighter looks at a pickup truck that knocked on its side when it was involved in three-way crash May 1. Santa Paula Police were told the collision resulted from the driver of a red Ford Expedition (above) trying to grab her purse as it slid off the front slid. |
Collision course: Two SUVs, one pickup
involved in E. Santa Barbara crash
May 08, 2015
Santa Paula News
A woman who told police she reached for her purse after it slid off the front seat of her SUV started a chain reaction crash that last week left one vehicle knocked over on a sidewalk.
According to Santa Paula Police Sgt. Jeremy Watson, the SPPD Traffic Investigator, the three-vehicle collision occurred May 1 about 2:30 p.m. in the 600 block of East Santa Barbara Street.
The driver of the first vehicle, a red, 2000 Ford Expedition, was Sandra Luna, 21 of Santa Paula.
Luna told police had just completed a left turn from North 7th Street onto East Santa Barbara Street and was driving westbound when, noted Watson, “She said her purse slid off the front seat and she reached down to grab it.”
As she did her SUV “veered to the right” and collided with a pickup truck, “pushing it on its side,” onto a sidewalk.
