Personal Injury Q and A

Guillermo Preciado, 85, was killed in an Orange County car accident after his vehicle was hit by another car.

A pedestrian walking near the intersection of Acacia Avenue and West Street was hit by an oncoming vehicle and then dragged for several feet by another in Garden Grove on December 28, 2011. The 54-year-old man, identified as Gregory Martin, was seriously injured and transported to a nearby hospital for treatment and is in critical condition.

Medical responders and police rushed to the scene of a two car accident in Anaheim on December 30, 2011. The accident, which occurred early Friday morning at the intersection of Knott Avenue and Ball Road, caused paramedics to take one of the victims to UCI Medical Center in Orange for unspecified injuries as a result of the accident.

One woman was killed and six others were injured in a Los Angeles car accident after two vehicles collided at a street intersection, the night of January 3, 2012.

Fourteen people were injured in a Riverside car accident when a Saturn Aura slammed into a Hyundai Elantra and a casino shuttle vehicle.

Two people were injured in a Riverside car accident after their motorcycle collided with a minivan.

December 20, 2011—An 18-year-old Marine was killed on Friday in a traffic accident fueled by alcohol.

The victim, Dominic Nop, originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, was a passenger in a vehicle driven by a fellow Marine, Herbert Jimenez, of Twentynine Palms. Jimenez apparently swerved across a median and into oncoming traffic before striking a telephone pole. Jimenez and a fellow passenger suffered minor injuries, but Nop was killed in the impact.

A 12-year-old boy was injured in a San Diego car accident, which officials say, involved a hit-and-run driver.

Four people, including two firefighters, sustained injuries in a Los Angeles car accident after an ambulance collided with a car at a street intersection.

Two police officers were injured in a Los Angeles car accident after their patrol vehicle crashed into a stop sign and a telephone pole in an attempt to avoid another vehicle.