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San Diego County Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Automobile Accidents

April 08, 2008 5:51 PM

Early Monday morning on the I-5 in Carlsbad, the driver of Chevy Cavalier lost control of her vehicle and broadside Mitsubishi Eclipse that was disabled in the fast lane after being involved in a...

February 08, 2008 9:21 AM

It was a tragic day for pedestrians in San Diego County yesterday. In three separate incidents, all occurring within one hour, a pedestrian was hit by a car and killed.The first accident occurred on Friars Road just after 6:00 p.m. when a 54-year-old man waked into westbound traffic and was struck by a late model Mercedes. Only a half hour later an SUV struck and killed a man near the rodeo...

January 29, 2008 1:41 PM

San Diego police are reporting that a van made an illegal u-turn in front of motorcyclist Robert Reed yesterday, causing the motorcycle and the van to collide. The motorcycle accident occurred on Valley Road near Plaza Bonita Center Way in the afternoon. Reed, a San Diego resident, died as a result of the accident.Accident investigators may seek vehicular manslaughter charges against the driver.

January 24, 2008 11:31 AM

Popular PGA caddie Steve Duplantis was struck and killed in a pedestrian vs. auto accident as he stepped of the center median of a Del Mar street and was struck by a taxi. Duplantis was in the area to caddie in the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines.According to reports, Duplantis was an excellent caddie with a reputation as person who liked a good party."Never want to hear anything like that...

Posted by Randy Walton
December 23, 2007 8:07 AM

Yesterday another person lost his life in a motorcycle accident. This time it was in Ramona, but I have been noticing more and more motorcycle fatalities in the local paper and wondered if I am just noticing more, or whether there are actually more. Well, according to a recent study, the number of motorcycle deaths in North County this year was unprecedented.As of December 22nd, the CHP has...

December 19, 2007 4:35 PM

We're continually advised this holiday season to have a designated driver if we plan on drinking away from home. Unfortunately that didn't help a car full of limousine passengers who were broadsided by a drunk driver in San Diego on Sunday.According to San Diego police this unfortunate motor vehicle accident occurred in the following way:The limo was being driven by a 21-year-old man at about 8...

November 30, 2007 2:12 PM

Friday's rain was the first significant rain in San Diego County in a long time. And when there's rain in San Diego, we know that many car accidents will follow.Between midnight and 9 a.m. on Friday the California Highway Patrol had already logged 97 car accident incident eports. There were no fatalities, but a least two reports of serious injury, and no doubt many people banged up and...

November 21, 2007 2:42 PM

In the last two weeks there have been two fatalities in Vista on Route 78. The first involved 37-year-old William Hansen of Oceanside who was struck after getting out of his car on the right shoulder. Hansen was hit be the driver of a silver 2001 to 2003 Honda Civic, who left the scene. Police later arrested 23-year-old Jessica Hawk for the hit-and-run accident. The other auto accident was...

Posted by Randy Walton
November 03, 2007 8:33 AM

We're all aware that the aging baby-boomer generation is creating all kinds of societal concerns such as the solvency of social security, the increase in health care costs, and the availability of nursing home care. But what about all the elderly drivers that will be on the road?A few months about I counseled a client in her 80s who was being prosecuted for vehicular manslaughter. She had run...

Posted by Randy Walton
October 04, 2007 6:28 AM

Every weekend it seems there is another automobile or motorcycle accident on Palomar Mountain. Just last Sunday a motorcyclist died, and the following day two cars crashed racing up the windy mountain road. The community now wants to do something about it.Palomar Mountain Fire Chief George Lucia has asked the county's road department to install a "rumble strip" - a passive traffic and speed...

Posted by Randy Walton
September 26, 2007 9:08 AM

Auto accident in Escondido causes serious personal injury to 16-year-old boy. Police are looking for witnesses.A 16-year-old motorist suffered serious injuries in an auto accident Tuesday when the car he was driving collided with another vehicle at the intersection of South Centre City Parkway and South Centre City Frontage Road.According to the North County Times, the accident happened about...

Posted by Randy Walton
September 17, 2007 8:09 PM

A 20-year-old motorcyclist died early Saturday morning in San Marcos at the intersection of East Mission Road and Mulberry Drive. Motorcycle rider fatalities have been on the rise since 1997. A report card issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 2004 states that 4008 motorcyclists died in 2004 and 76,000 were injured.A 20-year-old motorcyclist died early Saturday...

Posted by Randy Walton
September 13, 2007 7:43 AM

An Imperial County jury awarded a $5.64 million verdict to a young woman who was seriously injured when the family van she was riding in was hit by a commercial truck. She was 15 years old at the time of the accident.The commercial truck ran a stop sign and hit the family's mini-van, causing it to roll repeatedly. The commercial truck collided with the mini van, piercing it, and stricking the...

Posted by Shannon Weidemann
September 08, 2007 7:03 AM

A car accident at the intersection of Tooma and Woodman Streets has caused a woman to deliver baby by emergency c-section and left her badly injured. The woman was riding in a car when it was hit by an SUV. The baby is in good condition at a local hospital. The Aveo was going south on Woodman when a Jeep Liberty driven by a girl, 17, pulled from a stop sign into the Aveo's path, police said....

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