North County Injury Blog

Those who follow California law are familiar with the “Civil Justice Association of California,” an organization that seeks to curb access to the courts or to justice in the name of curtailing those scurrilous lawyers. You may have been exposed to some their handy work. One of the leaders of CJAC is its general counsel,…

A 65-year-old Poway motorcycle rider died Sunday when he struck a vehicle that had stalled on Interstate 15 in Escondido. According to reports, the man was riding northbound on a Honda CBR, near Via Rancho Parkway, when he struck the rear end of a Volkswagen Jetta. It is not clear in what part of the…

It has been more than a decade since the National Institute of Medicine recommended that the health care industry stop blaming doctors and nurses for medical errors and start looking at prevention. An investigation by Hearst Newspapers has found that very little has changed since that time. A proposed mandatory nationwide system for reporting and…

The Chula Vista police are looking for the driver of a silver or blue compact car that ran a red light and struck a 13-year-old girl. According to reports, the reckless driver was heading east on Palomar Street at around 11:00 p.m. on July 22. The victim was crossing in the crosswalk at the intersection…

A Good Samaritan who accidentally injures a person while trying to provide voluntary aid will not be protected from lawsuits by the injured party. Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 83, which is intended to encourage Good Samaritans to provide aid and rescue in emergency situations. “Now Good Samaritans have no reason to hesitate…

Early indications are that tire failure caused an SUV to skid off Interstate 5 yesterday and down an embankment before catching fire. The accident claim the life of Juan Antonio and Belinda Sandoval, their two daughters, ages 11 and 4, and a 6-year-old niece. The family was on their way from San Pedro to Legoland…

LA JOLLA – Spinal cord injury researchers from UC San Diego have announced a major advance in reconnecting nerve endings, which could lead to the reverse of paralysis in patients. The findings were published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Performing experiments on rats, scientists at the UCSD School of Medicine have, for the first time,…

A multi-vehicle car accident on Interstate 5 claimed this life of a 9-year-old Los Angeles girl early this morning. Early indications are that the car accident was caused by a drunk driver, Michael Wright of Commerce, who was arrested on manslaughter charges. Just after midnight, traffic on northbound I-5 was moderate to heavy, and vehicles…

A five-year-old boy was killed at the intersection of Big Bear Boulevard and Pine Knot Avenue when he was struck by a car while crossing the road with his mother and brother. All three individuals were struck by an SUV. The boy’s mother and 8-year-old brother were taken by helicopter to Loma Linda Medical Center…

A study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that texting while driving is more dangerous than previously thought. According to the study, texting while driving increases the risk of a car accident 23 times greater than not texting. It was thought that talking while driving and texting while driving posed a similar risk,…