UCSB chancellor’s wife possibly involved in car accident on Tuesday

ISLA VISTA, Calif. – California Highway Patrol officers responded to a traffic accident on the UC Santa Barbara campus Tuesday afternoon that may have involved the wife of a high-ranking university official.

According to a CHP incident log, the incident occurred on Mesa Road near University Square at 2:44 p.m.

The CHP log said the driver of a Buick Lacrosse was the wife of the university’s president and that UCSB was unable to handle the incident “due to a conflict of interest.”

At 14:56 a combined heat and power plant arrived at the scene of the accident to take a report.

When your news channel arrived, an officer was speaking to two women, one of whom appeared to be the driver in the accident. Neither woman wanted to comment. A young man with a damaged skateboard declined to comment.

The responding CHP officer would not confirm the identities of those involved. He said the skateboarder had a sore ankle.

The official said the report would be forwarded to UC Santa Barbara police. No one involved in the incident was arrested, and it’s unclear if anyone was immediately cited.

Your News Channel has reached out to the university, which declined to comment. We have also reached out to a CHP spokesperson and UCSB police and are awaiting a response.