California Personal Injury Attorneys

Manuel and Maria Mosqueda, 55 and 54 years old respectively, sustained injuries in a car accident after a speeding driver lost control of her car and crashed head-on into their vehicle on the Highway 46 east of San Luis Obispo. According to a report in the San Luis Obispo Tribune, the Mosquedas were traveling west on the highway, in a 2009 Chevy Silverado, the night of February 27, 2010, when an eastbound 2005 Chrysler Sebring struck them head-on. California Highway Patrol officials said 21-year-old Sandy Blake Roberts, a passenger in the Chrysler, died in the crash. Read the rest of this entry »

Thomas Joseph Meeks, 19, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident after both, he and his 15-year-old stepbrother were fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver. The San Bernardino Sun reports that the fatal accident occurred the night of February 19, 2010 on 40th Street, near Johnson Street and Acre Lane. The two teens were on their way home on a bicycle when they were struck. Read the rest of this entry »

A motorist was killed in a Los Angeles car accident after a big rig on the 710 Freeway struck his vehicle on the night of February 22, 2010. According to a CBS News report, the big rig was northbound on the freeway near East Slauson Avenue, in Commerce, when it struck a vehicle that was stopped by the shoulder of the freeway. California Highway Patrol officials said the motorist whose vehicle was hit, sustained fatal injuries. Read the rest of this entry »

Yichao Wang, a 26-year-old visiting scholar at Stanford University, has died of injuries sustained in a San Francisco car accident. Wang was bicycling home on February 3, 2010 to his Palo Alto apartment when he was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Palm Drive and Museum Way. California Highway Patrol officials are still investigating this incident and have not released any findings, according to a news report in the San Jose Mercury News. Read the rest of this entry »

A man was killed in a San Bernardino pedestrian accident after he was hit by a big rig on a Fontana street. The Press-Enterprise reports that the accident occurred the morning of February 10, 2010 in the 15100 block of Washington Street. Police said no one saw the collision take place. However, investigators were able to determine that he was hit by a big rig based on tire tracks. The deceased man was found lying on the street. People apparently noticed him because of the glow from a flashlight the victim carried with him. If you saw this crash or have any information, please call 909-350-7700. Read the rest of this entry »

Xiu Fang Huang, 63, was killed in a San Francisco car accident after she was struck by a San Francisco city Public Utilities Commission truck at an intersection. According to a news report in the San Francisco Examiner, Huang was crossing at the street intersection of Ocean and Miramar avenues the afternoon of February 9, 2010 when she was hit. The large city truck, which was towing a trailer and had three city employees onboard, was headed south on Miramar. The driver of the truck attempted a left turn on to Ocean Avenue when the fatal pedestrian accident occurred. Huang died at the scene. No one has been cited or arrested pending a police investigation. The city's Public Utilities Commission is also conducting its own investigation of this incident. Read the rest of this entry »

A patient at a Newport Beach hospital sustained personal injuries after she was placed on a metal gurney that was pulled into an MRI machine. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has been fined $50,000 by the California Department of Public Health for this incident, which according to records, occurred in January 2009. The powerful magnet in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine pulled the gurney into the machine and her leg was trapped for about three minutes. She suffered fractures in her lower leg and foot. Read the rest of this entry »

A man who sustained fatal injuries in a San Bernardino car accident has been identified by local authorities as 23-year-old Justin Chang of Hacienda Heights. The Whittier Daily News reports that Chang lost control of his vehicle on the Highway 395 the night of January 15, 2010. His Toyota Scion crashed near mile marker 61. Chang's Toyota went off the highway and into the northbound lane where he was struck by a Honda van. Chang died at the scene of the crash. Read the rest of this entry »

An elderly pedestrian who was killed in a San Bernardino car accident on January 6, 2010, has been identified as 81-year-old Sumiko Maria Thomas. The Victorville Daily Press reports that Thomas was walking near the intersection of Country Club Drive and Makai Court, in Victorville, when she was hit by a 2005 Cadillac CTS. The critically injured pedestrian was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. Read the rest of this entry »

A Huntington Beach woman who sustained fatal injuries in a fiery car accident on the Interstate 80 near Truckee, early morning December 29, 2009, has been identified as 18-year-old Jessica Ann Faber. The Union reports that Faber was killed and 23-year-old Gregory Wessels of Fountain Valley was critically injured after a wrong-way driver crashed head-on into their vehicle. The wrong-way driver, 21-year-old Christopher Dann, also died in the car crash. Wessels is listed in serious condition at a local hospital. Read the rest of this entry »