Articles Posted in Car Accident

Two people were injured in a San Francisco car accident after an elderly woman driving west on the eastbound Highway 80 crashed head-on into another vehicle. According to a KTVU news report, the crash occurred the evening of October 28, 2009 on the highway near Cummings Skyway. California Highway Patrol officials say the woman was driving a Chevy Lumina when she slammed head-on into a Volkswagen Jetta. The elderly woman sustained major injuries. The driver of the Jetta was also taken to the hospital, but the nature of that victim’s injuries is not known.
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Yorik Ponce, 32, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident early morning October 26, 2009, the San Bernardino Sun reports. Ponce was driving a 1997 Jeep Wrangler west on the 10 Freeway near Mountain View Avenue when he came up against a crash scene. He apparently turned to avoid a collision but was instead, hit by another vehicle. The Jeep then rolled onto its side. Ponce died shortly after the accident at a local hospital, San Bernardino Coroner’s officials said.
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Sally Miguel, 44 and Patricia Miguel, 30, were killed in an Orange County car accident after their vehicle was struck by a suspected drunk driver going the wrong way on the 91 Freeway in Anaheim, California. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, 21-year-old Jessica Shekell was driving her 2003 Toyota Tacoma west in the eastbound FasTrak lanes of the 91 Freeway when it collided head-on into a 2009 Chevy Silverado near the 55 Freeway the morning of October 26, 2009.

The Silverado’s driver, Sally Miguel, died at the scene. Patricia Miguel, a front-seat passenger, died at a local hospital. The women’s two nieces — ages 15 and 11 — also sustained injuries and were hospitalized. Shekell faces felony DUI charges.

I offer my deepest condolences to the family of Sally and Patricia Miguel. My heart goes out to the two young girls who have apparently been seriously injured in this DUI car accident. Please keep this family in your prayers.
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Two people were injured in an Orange County car accident the morning of October 19, 2009 after a motorcyclist collided with a car near the 5 Freeway on-ramp at Main Street in Santa Ana, California. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the injury accident occurred at the intersection of Main Street and Buffalo Avenue. Santa Ana police said the motorcyclist was making a left turn to go onto the 5 Freeway southbound when he was struck by an orange Volkswagen GTI that was traveling northbound on Main Street. Both the motorcyclist and the driver were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
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Our readers are probably aware that we blogged a few times in the recent past, about our client Deborah Reichle whose husband David Reichle was killed in a Los Angeles car accident on a Torrance street right outside his friend’s home Thanksgiving morning in 2008. David suffered severe brain injury and died five days after the jeep driven by Sara Sherbin struck him. Basically, Sherbin drove down a very wide and quiet residential street before hitting David. She claimed later that she didn’t see David getting out of his car and turning to talk to a friend on the sidewalk. Sherbin plowed through David and didn’t even stop after she hit him. Instead, she shot across the street before coming to a stop two houses away.
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When dealing with an insurance company, it is always best to consult with a car accident lawyer in California. Insurance companies are for-profit organizations that are driven to make as much money as possible. As an employee of the insurance company, the insurance adjuster has a responsibility to make money for his company by holding back every last penny that he/she possibly can from your personal injury claim. As such, insurance adjusters are trained to do anything and everything within their means to withhold payment. While the insurance companies train adjusters to advocate their side, the average person must consult with a car accident attorney who will advocate their side of the story.

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Five people suffered serious injuries in a Los Angeles car accident after a man crashed a stolen sedan into an SUV as he was fleeing police. According to a Fox News report, the two-car crash occurred at East 43rd and San Pedro streets the night of October 18, 2009. Los Angeles police officials began pursuing the driver of the sedan when they saw him run a red light and tried to stop him. But the driver did not comply and fled running several red lights including one on East 43rd and San Pedro streets, where the car slammed into a Ford Explorer SUV.
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Three people — Rickie Reyes Jr., 22, , Zsorhzinnia Tevaseu, 19, and Racquel Cassini, 21, died and three others were injured on October 17, 2009 in a San Francisco car accident during a weekly spectacle of reckless driving in East Oakland called “sideshows,” which local residents say are terrorizing their neighborhoods. According to a news article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Reyes, Tevaseu and Cassini were in a Nissan Altima that was speeding west on MacArthur Boulevard. The Altima veered toward oncoming traffic, slammed into a parked Toyota Corolla and overturned on the sidewalk near 100th Avenue, hitting a pedestrian. The pedestrian and two others in the Nissan were taken to an area hospital with serious injuries.
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A female driver suffered major injuries in a Los Angeles car accident after the car she was driving collided with a Los Angeles Police Department patrol vehicle at an intersection in Venice, California. According to a CBS news report, the injury car collision occurred at the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Glyndon Avenue early morning October 16, 2009.
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Marilyn Bosshart, 74, was killed in a San Francisco car accident on state Highway 1 at Devil’s Slide the morning of October 13, 2009. According to a news report in the San Mateo Daily Journal, the driver of a Nissan Z coupe was traveling south on the narrow highway at a high rate of speed. California Highway Patrol officials said the Nissan crossed over the center line and crashed into Bosshart’s car head-on, killing her. The driver of the Nissan was also injured and taken to a San Francisco hospital. The driver of the third car that was involved in the car accident was uninjured.
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