The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s-Coroner’s Office on Tuesday identified the driver who died in a single-vehicle rollover crash near Buellton on Dec. 1 as a Santa Maria man.

Officials said 41-year-old Robert Rowie Weiting was fatally injured after his vehicle crashed off northbound Highway 101 near Jonata Park Road.

Personnel from the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and the CHP were dispatched to the crash at approximately 10:25 a.m. 

The vehicle overturned and came to rest down an embankment that was not visible from the highway.

Firefighters freed him from the wreckage after about 10 minutes of extrication, according to the County Fire Department. Emergency personnel performed CPR before he was pronounced dead at the scene.

CHP officers from the Buellton area are investigating the cause of the crash.