March 2011
8 posts
Fourteen people died and several others were critically injured in a New York City bus accident the morning of March 12, 2011. According to a news report in The New York Times, the horrific bus accident occurred on Interstate 95 near the Bronx line, when a casino bus swerved out of control, skidded next to a guardrail and rammed into the support pole of a freeway exit sign. The pole then smashed...
A 25-year-old motorcyclist was critically injured in a San Francisco area car accident, which officials say, involved illegal street racing. According to an article in The Reporter, the major injury car accident occurred in Fairfield early morning on March 5, 2011. Officials say the motorcyclist, a 25-year-old man stationed at Travis Air Force Base, lost control of his motorcycle. A police officer...
Darlene Gadberry, 68, sustained serious injuries in a San Diego car accident after she was hit by a vehicle at a street intersection the evening of March 6, 2011. According to a news report in The Ramona Patch, the hit-and-run accident occurred at the intersection of Eighth and Main streets in Ramona. A pickup truck attempting a left turn onto Main from Eighth Street struck Gadberry as she was...
A pedestrian was fatally injured in a Los Angeles car accident, which officials say, involved a hit-and-run driver on March 6, 2011. According to an ABC News report, the fatal car accident occurred on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Menlo Avenue. The pedestrian was leaving a party just after midnight when he was hit by the car. He was transported to a local hospital, but succumbed to his...
A 7-year-old boy suffered severe head injuries in an Orange County car accident when the Honda Accord in which he was a passenger was struck by another vehicle at a street intersection. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the major injury car accident occurred at the intersection of Hazard Avenue and Purdy Street in Westminster the morning of March 4, 2011. Police say the...
Five people, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured in a Los Angeles car accident, which officials say, involved several vehicles. According to an NBC news report, the injury car accident occurred the afternoon of February 26, 2011 on the westbound 118 Freeway at Hayvenhurst Avenue. California Highway Patrol officials say multiple vehicles were involved, but did not say how many. One...
A motorcyclist, identified as Jeremy Gene Walkowiak, was seriously injured in a San Diego car accident, which officials say, involved a hit-and-run driver. According to a 10News report, the injury motorcycle accident occurred the evening of March 3, 2011 on Montiel Road in San Marcos. Police say Walkowiak was traveling east on Montiel from Nordahl Road when a vehicle turned in front of him. ...
A motorcycle rider was seriously injured in a San Diego car accident, which occurred at an intersection. According to a news report in The North County Times, the motorcycle accident happened at Poway and Community roads in Poway the evening of February 28, 2011. An SUV collided with the motorcycle at the busy intersection causing severe injuries to the rider, including a leg fracture. An...
September 2009
23 posts
A pedestrian was killed in a Los Angeles car accident the night of September 26, 2009 when a driver who was fleeing from California Highway Patrol officials struck and killed the man. According to an Associated Press news report, the victim who has not been identified yet, was in a crosswalk on Ventura Boulevard in the Woodland Hills area when he was hit by 26-year-old Hector Vidal who was being...
Two people suffered critical injuries in a San Bernardino car accident the evening of September 24, 2009, after two cars collided head-on in Ontario, California. According to a news report in the San Bernardino Sun, a driver was speeding south on Vine Avenue and collided head-on into another vehicle. The impact caused the speeding vehicle to roll over. Three of its occupants were ejected onto the...
Aaron Dineen, 22, an Orange County worker, was killed after he suffered serious personal injury when he touched a live wire while working on a power pole in San Clemente, California. Dineen was electrocuted near El Camino Real and Avenida Valencia, according to a news report in The Orange County Register. Dineen, a contractor for a utility company, was pronounced dead shortly after the accident...
Donna Louise Fatheree, 46, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident September 21, 2009, after she struck a car whose driver was attempting to make a left turn at an intersection. According to a news report in the Victorville Daily Press, Fatheree was driving a 1994 Dodge van east on Highway 18 in Apple Valley, California, when she entered the intersection of Highway 18 and Flathead Road and...
A woman died in a Riverside car accident the morning of September 21, 2009 after she was struck by four vehicles as she crossed a freeway off-ramp in Corona, California. According to a CBS news report, the woman, who has not yet been identified, was first struck by a Honda Civic driven by 23-year-old Pedro Vargas who was exiting the 15 Freeway at El Cerrito Road. Vargas told California Highway...
Juan Gonzalez, 26, was killed and another woman was injured in a Los Angeles car accident the morning of September 20, 2009, the Pasadena Star News reports. The car crash occurred on the eastbound 210 Freeway at Citrus Avenue in Azusa, California Highway Patrol officials said. They are still investigating why the Ford Mustang, which was in the carpool lane, suddenly swerved toward the right...
It is not clear how many were injured in a Los Angeles car accident early morning September 14, 2009, that was apparently caused by a police officer in Torrance, California. According to a news report in the Daily Breeze, the police officer, who was traveling north on Hawthorne Boulevard in a Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle, ran a red light and collided with a Ford Ranger pickup truck...
Two children were injured in a San Bernardino car accident the morning of September 16, 2009 after they were struck by a car while crossing the street on their way to school. According to a news report in the San Bernardino County Sun, an 8-year-old girl is on life support after having suffered critical injuries. Another girl, also 8, sustained injuries that were not life-threatening. The car...
Slip and fall accidents are one of the most common accidents that can lead to severe personal injuries and even death. In 2006, Ed Solomon was at his local supermarket when he had a slip and fall accident. Even after visiting the emergency room and being put on painkillers, Ed wasn’t sure what his options were.
Gerardo Perez, 32, suffered severe leg injuries in a San Diego car accident after he was struck by a suspected drunk driver near State Route 163 the morning of September 15, 2009. According to a 10news report, Perez was driving south on the highway when his 2000 Toyota Corolla came to a stop in the right-most lane. California Highway Patrol officials said Perez was pushing his vehicle onto the...
Eight people, including two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies, were injured in a Los Angeles car accident involving six vehicles outside the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California. According to a CBS New report, two sheriff’s deputies in a patrol car were heading south on White Avenue the morning of September 12, 2009 when their car collided with a red Honda Civic traveling in the...
One person was injured in an Orange County car accident after his vehicle was struck by another car at a street intersection in Santa Ana, California. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the accident occurred the morning of September 11, 2009 at the intersection of Bear Street and Segerstrom Avenue. Santa Ana police say a silver Dodge minivan going north on Bear collided with...
Nick Hagali, 80, died Thursday night after injuries sustained in an Orange County pedestrian accident the day before. The OC Register said that the Anaheim car accident occurred just before 9 a.m. on Brookhurst Street and Ball Road.
Ricardo Marin, 14, was killed in a San Bernardino car accidentafter he was struck by a car while crossing a street. According to a news report in The Press Enterprise, Ricardo was hit the night of September 9, 2009 by a 1994 Toyota that was headed south on Cedar Avenue near Rialto Avenue in Rialto, California. Ricardo was taken to an area hospital where he died shortly after the accident. Rialto...
A man in his 80s was injured in an Orange County car accident after he was struck by a car while crossing Brookhurst Street in Anaheim, California. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, a black Acura hit the man the night of September 9, 2009 after he was half way across Brookhurst and near Ball Road. There was no crosswalk where the man was walking. He was taken to an area...
Tyler Carmanati, 20, and Zachary Wilson, 21, sustained injuries in a California car accident the morning of September 6, 2007, which San Luis Obispo police say was caused by a drunk driver. According to a news article in the San Luis Obispo Tribune, 26-year-old Ian James Michaelson is accused of crashing his car into another car occupied by Carmanati and Wilson. Michaelson was headed north on...
Penny Colonna was an interior designer in Los Angeles. When Penny found herself injured in a Los Angeles car accident, she was fortunate that one of her clients was an attorney. She was even more fortunate when her client recommended she visit the Los Angeles personal injury lawyers of Bisnar | Chase to help her with her case.
Stephen Jackson Steiner, 25, who was critically injured in a San Bernardino motorcycle accident August 29, 2009, has died from his injuries. According to a news report in The Press Enterprise, Steiner was traveling eastbound on Mojave Drive in Victorville when he collided with an SUV that was turning onto Amethyst Road. Steiner was then airlifted to a local hospital. The fatal crash is still under...
Victor John Partnoff, 20, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident the night of September 1, 2009 after he crashed his car into the back of a parked big rig on the 10 Freeway in Redlands, California. According to a news report in The Press Enterprise, Partnoff was driving a 2008 Ford Fusion near Wabash Avenue when the collision occurred. San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department officials say...
Rosa Mora, 21, was killed in a San Diego car accident after the driver of the car she was a passenger in made a left turn at a red light and struck another vehicle, 10news reports. The fatal car crash occurred on Route 76 at East Vista Way in Bonsall, California, the night of September 1, 2009. The Mazda in which Mora was a passenger, was stopped at a red light on westbound Route 76 and its...
Goldie Williams Jr, 48, died in a San Bernardino car accident the evening of August 30, 2009 after he lost control of his car and crashed on the 215 Freeway. According to a news report in the San Bernardino Sun, Williams was driving a 2004 Lincoln Navigator south on the 215 Freeway when he lost control of his vehicle while attempting to pass a tractor trailer. Williams apparently veered off the...
A motorcyclist was hospitalized with injuries after an Orange County car accident the morning of August 31, 2009. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, a black Acura struck a Honda Goldwing motorcycle in the 3900 block of Orange Avenue at Venada Drive in Anaheim, California. The motorcycle rider skidded into a curb. The unidentified rider was taken to an area hospital. I hope...
Two people were hurt in a San Francisco car accident the morning of August 27, 2009 after a 24-Divisadero bus collided with a car, the San Francisco Examiner reports. Muni officials say preliminary reports indicate that the car rear-ended the bus. The car’s driver and a passenger in the bus were transported to an area hospital with injuries. No one else was injured. I’m relieved that...
August 2009
23 posts
The California car accident lawyers at Bisnar | Chase have represented families of victims who have been fatally injured as a result of unsecured loads on our freeways. Recently, there was a report in the Kern Valley Sun of a tragic car accident, which claimed the life of 58-year-old John Paul Hamon of Weldon, California. The fatal car accident occurred July 30, 2009 when 63-year-old Michael Carl...
A woman was killed and her 20-month-old child was critically injured after an August 26, 2009 San Francisco car accident, which was the result of a police chase. The fatal car crash occurred in Oakland, California, on West and 18th streets when a man driving an Acura Integra, who was fleeing in a police chase, struck the woman’s car. According to an ABC news report, Oakland police...
Upon a recommendation, Jason met with the Los Angeles car accident attorneys of Bisnar | Chase and the results, he said, have been “amazing.”
Shari Martinez, 27, was killed in an August 25, 2009 Riverside car accident after she was struck on the 60 Freeway by a pickup truck, according to the Riverside County Coroner’s Department. California Highway Patrol officials say Martinez was hit by the truck after getting out of her car, which had broken down on the freeway in Moreno Valley, California. Martinez was pronounced dead at...
Maria Sanchez, 84, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident after another driver attempted a U-turn and struck the car in which she was a passenger. According to a news report in The Press Enterprise, Michael V. Santos, 23, was driving east on Highway 138 east of the 15 Freeway in Hesperia, California, the night of August 23, 2009, when he made a U-turn in front of another car driven by...
Ricardo Mercado, 10, was killed in a Los Angeles car accident after he was struck by an SUV while walking in a crosswalk with his family, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ricardo was crossing Tweedy Boulevard at San Vincente Avenue in South Gate the morning of August 22, 2009 with his mother, Ana Mercado, 35, and two sisters, Anita, 12 and Leticia, 6, when a woman driving a Volkswagen SUV made a...
A 43-year-old man suffered serious injuries in a San Bernardino car accident after he was struck by a teen driver at a street intersection in Yucaipa, California, the morning of August 20, 2009. According to a news report in The Press Enterprise, the man was crossing 11th Street at Yucaipa Boulevard in a motorized wheelchair when he was struck by a full-sized Chevrolet pickup truck driven by a...
Douglas Donnell Brown, 49, was killed in a San Bernardino motorcycle accident after a car made a left turn in front of him, the San Bernardino Sun reports. Brown was riding a black 2008 Harley-Davidson west on Yucca Trail the evening of August 17, 2009 in Yucca Valley, California, when the driver of a 2009 Ford Flex made a left turn in front of him at Indio Avenue, San Bernardino County...
A 30-year-old man suffered critical injuries in an Orange County motorcycle accident after his motorcycle struck a slow-moving car on Beach Boulevard in Westminster, California. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the man was driving a red Yamaha R6 north on Beach near Bishop Street when he hit a Scion Coupe that was making a turn into a restaurant parking lot. The...
Paola Casara, a 32-year-old Italian tourist was killed and three members of a local family that was hosting her were injured in a San Francisco car accident after a drunk driver crashed into their car on Devil’s Slide, the night of August 9, 2009, the San Mateo Daily Journal reports. Thomas Harold Randall, 51, struck a Ford Escape carrying Casara and her host family, after drinking beer and...
A male employee at a restaurant suffered serious burn injuries in a Ventura car accident after an elderly woman crashed into the front of the restaurant and hit a deep fryer. According to a news report in the Ventura County Star, the worker was hospitalized with burns over 60 percent of his body. The car crash occurred the morning of August 15, 2009 in Thousand Oaks, California. Apparently, the...
Roman Mercado, 23, was seriously hurt and another suffered injuries in a San Diego car accident after a car and a bus collided head-on the afternoon of August 12, 2009, 10news reports. California Highway Patrol officials said the car accident occurred near Olive Hill Road on State Route 76 in Bonsall, California when an eastbound 2002 Chrysler Sebring driven by Mercado, drifted into an oncoming...
Benjamin Keil Allen, 26, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident early morning on August 12, 2009 when the Toyota Tundra pickup he was off-roading in Loma Linda, California, tipped over and crashed. Allen was driving the Tundra on Mountain View Avenue. He was ejected from the pickup truck and died when the truck ran him over, crushing his head and upper body. Loma Linda fire officials said...
One person was critically injured in a San Francisco car accident the night of August 11, 2009 after being struck by a car on Van Ness Avenue, the San Francisco Examiner reports. The pedestrian, who has not yet been identified, was walking near the intersection of California Street and Van Ness Avenue when a car hit him, San Francisco police said. After hitting the pedestrian, the motorist drove...
One person was hospitalized with injures in an Orange County car accident after an SUV overturned in a single-car accident, The Orange County Register reports. The car accident reportedly occurred on August 10, 2009 when the Dodge Durango hit a tree in the center divider on Edinger Avenue between Brookhurst and Euclid streets. The Dodge SUV flipped on to its roof. The SUV’s driver sustained...
A man suffered critical injuries in a hit-and-run Los Angeles pedestrian accident after he was struck by a vehicle in Compton, California, early morning on August 9, 2009. According to a CBS news report, the fatal car accident occurred at South Atlantic Avenue and Linsley Street when the man, who has not yet been identified, was hit. He was transported to an area hospital and listed in critical...
A man was killed in a Los Angeles car accident involving two cars in Norwalk, California, on August 5, 2009. According to a news report in the Long Beach Press Telegram, the fatal car crash occurred in the 14400 block of Jersey Avenue in Norwalk, California. The car collision apparently involved a white pickup truck and a second vehicle whose occupant died at the scene. The victim has not been...
Two teens—including 19-year-old Gerard Gilbert—were killed and one other sustained major injuries in a San Francisco car accident on the 101 Freeway the night of August 4, 2009, the San Mateo County Times reports. California Highway Patrol officials say a red 1992 Honda Prelude that was repeatedly changing lanes swerved off northbound 101 near Oyster Point Boulevard. The vehicle rolled...
Two people were injured in a San Bernardino bus accident on August 4, 2009 after the driver of an Omnitrans bus ran a red light and crashed into the back of a stopped vehicle. According to a news report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, the bus driver ran a red light at Base Line Street as he approached Webster Street in Highland, California. The bus hit the stopped vehicle and pushed it into...