$525,000 California Car Accident Settlement A 34-year-old Bay Area woman suffered serious injuries in a high-speed rear-end car accident, that left her pinned in the backseat of a van at East Leland Road and Harbor Street in Pittsburg, California. She was lucky to be alive, but she suffered severe damage to her legs, requiring surgeries […]
$100,000 Policy Limits Settlement for Runner Hit by Car in San Francisco A 29-year-old project manager at a large satellite data company suffered serious injuries as a runner hit by a car in San Francisco. A driver sped through a red light while the project manager was jogging across an intersection at Market Street and […]
$250K Settlement – SF Pedestrian Accident Traumatic Brain Injury San Francisco Pedestrian Struck by Car in Crosswalk A 25-year-old union worker for a local utility company suffered severe injuries, including a pedestrian traumatic brain injury (TBI), when a driver turned left across a pedestrian crosswalk. The motorist’s car struck the young man and throwing him […]
A 22-year-old software engineer was struck by a driver as he stepped down from a Muni train at 47th Avenue and Judah Street in San Francisco. The software engineer suffered a severely fractured ankle, requiring surgery. He knew it would be a long time before he could get back to rock climbing and creating visual […]
A 29-year old mechanical engineer was walking in a crosswalk at Fulton Street and Masonic Avenue in San Francisco on a clear summer afternoon. An impatient and unlicensed driver made a left hand turn and plowed right into her while she was crossing the street. Her body was launched up over the hood of the […]
$700K Settlement for San Francisco Pedestrian Hit by Distracted Driver A 62-year old mother and San Francisco resident was out for a walk in San Francisco on an October morning. As the woman was walking through an intersection in a marked cross-walk in San Francisco, a car driving through the intersection at Bush and Scott […]
You may have heard the saying “pedestrians always have the right of way.” Not so fast! Here in California, that’s not always true – especially if the pedestrian wasn’t walking in a marked crosswalk. Of course, motorists aren’t allowed to just run over anyone who’s not using a crosswalk either. Under the law, motorists have […]
On a clear afternoon in San Francisco, a 20-year-old college student, and aspiring video game designer, had just exited the bus. He was standing on the sidewalk in the quiet Richmond District near Ocean Beach. Suddenly and without warning, a motorist lost control of his vehicle, driving up onto the sidewalk where the young man […]
The Unexpected Dangers of Public Transit When you think about the dangers associated with public transit you might imagine horrifying accidents involving electrified rails and trains barreling out of control through busy intersections. But most pedestrian accidents in San Francisco involving public transit are much more commonplace and—therefore—even scarier. While San Francisco doesn’t have an […]
San Francisco was rated one of the most dangerous places to walk in 2009 (even though it’s also one of WalkScore’s most walkable cities in the country). And while the city has done much to reverse that public image, there are still around 200 fatal an injurious pedestrian accidents in San Francisco every year—roughly 1 […]