Prosecutors called a certified collision reconstructionist on Monday, July 11, for the ongoing trial of John Dungan, a Santa Barbara man charged with murdering Solvang woman Rebecca Vanessa Goss Bley and her two children, 2-year-old Lucienne Bley Gleason and 4-month-old Desmond Bley Gleason, in a high-speed car wreck on Highway 154 in 2019.
Retired CHP Officer Scott Peterson was called to the stand to testify about the Event Data Recorder (EDR) report retrieved from Dungan’s Camaro. Peterson said that the Camaro’s EDR was the only one salvageable since the ones from the Volt driven by Bley and the Yukon driven by Nicholas Goddard , who was driving down the 154 from Los Gatos with his son and narrowly avoided the collision, were damaged extensively from a fire immediately following the crash that ignited from the Volt.
Pages from the report reveal Dungan was traveling at speeds reaching up to 119 mph toward Bley’s car on October 25, 2019. Peterson said that “the speed increased as the Camaro got closer to the Volt,” confirming that Dungan was traveling at 119 mph when colliding with the Volt. A chart detailing the car’s diagnostics, including speed, ranged from 5 seconds to 0.5 before the crash. The data showed the Camaro’s accelerometer increasing from 109 to 119 in four seconds, as well as the accelerator pedal being at full position leading up to the time of impact and the seatbelt being unbuckled.