Buildings in Santa Barbara and Goleta served as unintended targets in two separate vehicle collisions on June 9 and 10. One, a suspected DUI, caused severe damage to a home, while the other, a minor driving error, resulted in minimal damage to a Credit Union wall.
A home in Goleta was severely damaged when a Honda sedan crashed into it late Monday night. The vehicle plowed through the front window, but the resident, in another part of the house, was unharmed. When deputies responded to the home on the 6200 block of Cathedral Oaks Road around 11:38 p.m. on June 9, they learned that 23-year-old Nehemiah Verhoef of Goleta had failed to make a left turn onto southbound Carlo, driving over a crosswalk activator before colliding with the residence. His passenger, 24-year-old Luke Gibou of Santa Barbara, allegedly tried to hide open containers of alcohol before deputies arrived. Verhoef was arrested for misdemeanor DUI, and Gibou was arrested for misdemeanor concealing evidence. Both were booked at the Main Jail and later released with a citation…