San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Blog

Woman Injured In San Diego Dog Attack

According to 10News.com in San Diego, a woman was attacked by two dogs in her Grant Hill neighborhood on June 24. The dog attack occurred as the victim was walking her own dogs, and a pit bull and a boxer escaped from their owner’s property. The woman sustained a minor personal injury after the two dogs nipped at her face as she was protecting her own dogs. She declined medical treatment and took one of her dogs to a veterinarian as a precaution. Christopher Nevares and James Hernandez were driving in the area and witnessed the attack. Nevares pulled over his car and took the victim and her dogs into his car. “From a block away we saw what seemed like a squabble of dogs and a hurt pedestrian,” Nevares told reporters. “I hit one dog on top of the skull,” said Hernandez. “It stopped, the other one did not. It kept on the little…
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Haz Mat Team Responds to Clean Up Pesticides Following Truck Accident

According to ABC 7 News in California, a truck accident on June 20 caused delays on Interstate Highway 680 for several hours.  The truck accident occurred at approximately 8:15 a.m. in the bay area in California, just north of South Kind Road on the interstate. According to the California Highway Patrol, the commercial truck involved in the truck accident was carrying pesticides.  According to California Highway Patrol Officer John Short, approximately 25 gallons of pesticides were spilled in the truck accident.  A hazardous materials team was called out to the scene to clean up. The South King Road off-ramp, as well as three southbound lanes, were shut down while teams worked to clean up the scene of the truck accident.

Two San Diego ISD Coaches Killed in Truck Accident

According to NBC 6 News in Corpus Christi, Texas, two women were killed following a tragic truck accident on June 13.  The truck accident occurred in Nevada, where Esther Garza and Renee Upchurch were driving through to Utah to visit a sick relative. Garza and Upchurch had pulled over on the side of the road outside of Reno when their SUV was struck by a truck belonging to the Nevada Department of Transportation.  Upchurch was killed instantly and Garza was flown to a nearby hospital where she later died from her injuries. Upchurch was a teacher and a coach at San Diego ISD, and Garza had recently retired as a coach. “She meant a lot to a lot of people,” niece Jeneca Upchurch told reporters.  “She was a teacher, she was a coach, she was a friend to a lot of students, a lot of athletes.” Investigators are still determining…
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