Articles Posted in Auto Accidents

There have been a lot of fatal car accidents in San Diego County recently. In fact, over the holidays there were more auto accident-related deaths than in years past. Many of the accidents were caused by alcohol use, but the accidents that jump off the news pages are those that occur for “unknown reasons.” For…

California Highway Patrol is reporting that Yine Erandy Gonzales Angeles, age 24, was killed early Sunday morning when the Ford Explorer she was traveling in rolled over on Interstate 5 near Solana Beach. Ms. Angeles was six months pregnant at the time. The baby did not survive. According to news reports, Ms. Angeles was riding…

In recent years there has been a raging debate about what is the best age to allow a person to obtain a driver’s license. For teenagers, it is a rite of passage to get a driver’s license, but in increasing numbers teen drivers are causing mayhem on the roads. While road fatalities have dropped in…

FACTS: Last September 52-year-old Theodore Angle was struck and killed by an SUV while jogging at the intersection of Via Cordoba and Redhawk Parkway in Temecula. The SUV was turning onto Redhawk from Via Cordoba when it struck Angle. Allegations were made that the intersection was dangerous when turning left from Via Cordoba, because traffic…

FACTS: A 16-year-old female student as Scripps Ranch High School was accidentally run over in the high school’s parking lot. According to reports, the victim and other students were socializing in the parking lot just after school, apparently sitting on the asphalt. A 16-year-old male student then got into his car, started the engine, and…

Auto accidents in San Diego County claimed the lives of three people over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, two fewer than killed during the same weekend last year. In Balboa Park, two people did in a solo-car crash, and 51-year-old Ilija Petrovich of Carlsbad was killed in a motorcycle accident in Pauma Valley. California CHP also…

A woman described as friendly and loyal was killed this weekend while selling flowers at her roadside flower stand in Lakeside. According to reports, Gwendolyn Wheeler was talking to a taxi that had pulled over on the shoulder of Lake Jennings Park Road when the driver of a pickup truck drove across lanes and on…

Based in San Diego’s North County, Randy Walton and Scott Barber represent individuals all over San Diego County in matters of personal injury and wrongful death. Whether you live in Escondido or El Cajon or Chula Vista, or anywhere else, Randy and Scott can help you obtain monetary justice for the injuries you have suffered.…

Car accident injury and fatality statistics from 2007 were released yesterday by the California Office of Traffic Safety, and show a wide disparity among Northern San Diego County cities. Escondido seemed to fair the worse, ranking third highest among 52 cities of similar size in alcohol-related accidents per vehicle mile. Faring better was Carlsbad, who…

The driver of a bus that crashed last Sunday in Williams, California had a long criminal history and several motor vehicle offenses. Despite this history, he was allowed to drive a busload of senior citizens traveling to a casino when he veered off the road and into a ditch. Eight people died in the accident,…