San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Blog

Pedestrian safety in San Diego has become a high priority for city officials and law enforcement, with several deaths and injuries occurring at crosswalks in the last few months. One fatal accident occurred earlier in March, when a baby was tragically killed after an SUV ran through a crosswalk and hit her stroller. According to the driver, a palm tree had impeded his view. The accident has caused many San Diego residents to call for safer crosswalks. Another pedestrian accident happened in Del Mar when a woman and her dog were knocked into the air by a passing car. After being questioned by police, the driver claimed that she was unable to see the woman and her dog because the setting sun blinded her. The victim’s mother has called for the crosswalk to be shut down, calling it unsafe. As it turns out, the crosswalk where the accident occurred has…
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Alcohol related car accidents kill almost 30 people every day across the country, making it a leading cause of death for motorists. However, drunk driving accidents are not the only threat to motorists. Drugged driving has increasingly injured and killed innocent drivers. San Diego has had numerous drugged driving accidents that have resulted in catastrophic injury or death for innocent drivers. In 2012, an Air Force veteran drove under the influence of prescription medication, killing a 77-year-old La Jolla man and injuring his wife. According to police, the veteran was driving under the influence of Valium and three other prescription medications when she ran through a red light, slamming into the man and his wife. Valium is a powerful benzodiazepine, a class of drugs used to treat anxiety disorders. Although we have only provided our readers with one example, there is evidence to suggest drugged driving has become a larger…
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Distracted driving has become the number one cause of preventable car accidents involving young people across the nation. According to the Automobile Association of America, distracted driving is a factor in 58 percent of moderate to severe car accidents involving teenagers. AAA gathered the results by attaching dashboard cameras to the vehicles of more than 6,800 teenage drivers and then recorded any accidents. After analyzing nearly 1,700 videos, AAA concluded that distracted driving was responsible for 6 in 10 car accidents involving teenagers. Previous data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association estimated that distracted driving was responsible for 14 percent of car accidents involving a teenage driver. Mobile phone use and texting have become a major cause for car accidents involving young drivers, but additional distractions are also responsible. Results from the AAA study showed that teenagers were distracted by looking at other vehicles, singing or moving to music,…
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