{"id":7131,"date":"2026-08-18T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:39:34","slug":"woman-who-died-in-santa-cruz-cliff-crash-was-ucsc-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7131","title":{"rendered":"Woman who died in Santa Cruz cliff crash was UCSC student"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>A woman who died after a car went off a Santa Cruz cliff into the ocean has been identified by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7129\">East Bay apartment complex in \u2018stunning\u2019 building is nearly full and is adding retailers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was publicly identified Monday as Alli Singh, 19, from Selma, in Fresno County. The University of California, Santa Cruz said she was a student studying psychology.<\/p>\n<p>The car drove off a bluff on West Cliff Drive near Steamer Lane around 12:50 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7127\">How Tosh Lupoi tried to address Cal\u2019s most glaring weakness from 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rescue crews found that one of the occupants had escaped the vehicle and suffered only minor injuries. The second occupant \u2014 Singh \u2014 was still in the car, and was reached by four rescue swimmers. She was taken to a medical facility, where she died.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7125\">Five arrested, 8.4 pounds of fentanyl seized in East Bay drug investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who died after a car went off a Santa Cruz cliff into the ocean has been identified by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Woman who died in Santa Cruz cliff crash was UCSC student - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7131\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woman who died in Santa Cruz cliff crash was UCSC student - 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