Archive for the ‘Auto Accidents’ Category

USA soccer player injured in car accident

Posted by brandlawfirm on October 19th, 2009 under Auto Accidents  •  No Comments

According to the Washington Post, USA soccer player Charlie Davies, was badly injured in a car accident early Tuesday, October 13.  He was stable through the night at Washington Hospital Center.  He had extensive operations for fractures to his right leg, left elbow and face, as well as for a lacerated bladder.   Davies was [...]

2 killed by alleged DUI driver

Posted by brandlawfirm on October 12th, 2009 under Auto Accidents  •  No Comments

According to Kristina Davis of the Union-Tribune, Sarah Garcia, 21, and a Marine were killed in a sequence of crashes on Interstate 15 on October 11, 2009.  Several others were injured.  The CHP suspects that a drunken driver was involved. At 4 a.m. on northbound I-15 near Gopher Canyon Road, a 29-year-old Chula Vista man [...]

Wrongful Death Action Against Caltrans

Posted by brandlawfirm on October 5th, 2009 under Auto Accidents  •  No Comments

According to the PR Web, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Caltrans, Holly Ann Lee, Gaylene Lee, Victoriana Vazquez and Miguel Alvarez for the death of Kimberly Ann Downes.  California personal injury lawyers of BISNAR|CHASE filed suit against Caltrans, Holly Ann Lee, Gaylene Lee, Victoriana Vazquez and Miguel Alvarez.  The action was brought against the [...]

Oscar winning screenwriter sentenced to a year in jail

Posted by brandlawfirm on October 1st, 2009 under Auto Accidents  •  No Comments

According to the Los Angeles Times, Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in the 2008 crash that killed a passenger and seriously injured his wife in Ojai. Avary, the co-writer of “Pulp Fiction” and “Beowulf”, plead guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other [...]

Fatal Car Accident

Posted by brandlawfirm on September 22nd, 2009 under Auto Accidents  •  No Comments

According to the Associated Press, on September 15, 2009 Toyota said it will order all dealers to inspect their cars for mismatched floor mats after a mat was suspected of snagging a gas pedal on a runaway Lexus, ending with a fiery crash in Santee, San Diego County that killed CHP Officer Mark Saylor, 45, [...]

Hit and Run

Posted by brandlawfirm on September 18th, 2009 under Auto Accidents  •  No Comments

Claudia Cabrera, 30, and Josue Luna, 33, were ordered to face charges including hit-and-run causing great bodily harm and vehicular manslaughter after the accident that left one USC student dead and another severely injured. This was at the conclusion of a two-day preliminary hearing. An earlier attempt at a plea deal fell through in August. [...]