The recent death of a pedestrian on a Redondo Beach street has renewed attention on traffic safety in the area. According to a news report, a 57-year-old man was crossing the street at the intersection of Artesia and Hawthorne at about 9:15 p.m. one recent night when...
In California, there are safety regulations that semi-truck drivers must follow. These guidelines can help avoid accidents on congested roads. Driver fatigue Semi-truck drivers may travel long hours from one location to another to deliver the goods they are carrying....
Car design become more advanced every day and their styles frequently evolve. Even so, defective auto parts and design flaws still arise. Vehicle crashes, serious injuries and sometimes even death may result from these avoidable mistakes. Finding out how and why a...
Some multi-vehicle accidents have more than one cause, especially if alcohol or drugs may be involved. A recent collision in Huntington Beach on the Pacific Coast Highway demonstrates the difficulty of establishing causation and fault in multi-vehicle accidents. The...
Two types of accidents seem to have pre-ordained results: motorcycle collisions with trucks or autos and pedestrians struck by the same classes of vehicles. Pedestrians have no natural protection against an automobiles apart from their own senses and level of...
If you are partly responsible for the accident in which you were hurt, can you hold another party liable for your damages? Under California law, the answer is yes, under some circumstances. Pure comparative negligence In the past, courts would not allow an injured...
In the 1980s, the new wave band Missing Persons sang "Nobody walks in L.A." Indeed, Southern California has long had a reputation for its automobile-centered lifestyle, but that could be changing. In recent years, local governments across California have promoted...
Motorcyclists are especially vulnerable to the mistakes of careless drivers. The greater mass of an automobile means that the motorcycle driver will suffer greater injury in a collision between the two kinds of vehicles. A recent collision in Echo Park that was caught...
It’s normal to want to move on past a truck accident as quickly as possible, especially if you’ve suffered injuries and simply want to focus on your recovery. If your truck accident was caused by the negligence of another, then you might get that opportunity, too, in...
An accident that involved 10 vehicles, 5 of them being semi-trucks, killed 3 people. Additionally, rescuers took 2 victims to the hospital. One person’s injury was described as serious. The accident happened on a busy California highway, and authorities had to keep...
