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Traffic accident leads to death of pedestrian in Goleta

Police tape spans an area. An ambulance and emergency personnel are in the background.
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Investigators are looking into a traffic collision in Santa Barbara County that left a woman dead early Sunday.

A driver heading westbound on Calle Real in Goleta at around 1 a.m. veered off the road, and her vehicle ended up in a field. She told Santa Barbara County Sheriff's deputies that she'd been momentarily blinded by an oncoming vehicle.

Responding officers found the body of another woman in the area where the driver lost control. The driver stated that she was unaware that she'd hit anyone.

Investigators don’t think drugs or alcohol were factors in the incident. The victim has been identified as Jennifer Bradshaw of Goleta.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.