A man was killed Wednesday evening after his vehicle plunged approximately 300 feet down a steep embankment off Figueroa Mountain Road near Santa Ynez, according to officials with the California Highway Patrol and Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The crash was reported around 4:40 p.m. on December 17, when the San Luis Obispo Communications Center received an iPhone crash notification in the remote area northeast of the Figueroa campground.
Responding officers from the CHP Buellton Area located an overturned Jeep Gladiator off the side of the road. The driver, who was the vehicle’s sole occupant, was trapped inside. According to a press release from CHP Lieutenant Jim Parish, officers and a California State Parks ranger extricated the man and initiated CPR…