Personal Injury Q and A

Hart Godbold, 26, was seriously injured in an Oregon hit-and-run car accident after his bicycle was struck by a vehicle, which police say was racing and jumped onto the sidewalk along 30th Avenue the night of October 16, 2009. According to a news report in the Register-Guard, two suspects were racing cars in the westbound [...]

Alana Williams, a 11-year-old girl, died in a San Francisco car accident the morning of October 16, 2009 after she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on her way to school in Oakland, California. According to a news report in the Oakland Tribune, Alana was crossing 64th Avenue in a marked crosswalk when [...]

Norma Lambo, 84, was killed in a Los Angeles car accident the evening of October 5, 2009 after she was hit by a pickup truck while attempting to cross the street with a walker. According to an ABC News report, Lambo was crossing near the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Alfred Place in Montebello. Lambo [...]

A man was seriously injured in a San Diego car accident when he was struck near a street intersection in El Cajon, California. According to a news report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the man was hit the night of September 5, 2009 as he was walking across Avocado Avenue near Avenida Abajo. The gold [...]

A homeless man, known in the community only as "Joe," was killed in a Los Angeles car accident the night of August 30, 2009. According to a news report in the Daily Breeze, the man was hit by a car as he traveled on a wheelchair in Long Beach, California. Richard Leone, 64, was later [...]

I recently came across the story of Patti Pattison, the victim of an Orange County car accident, which was also a hit-and-run car accident. According to an article in The Orange County Register, Pattison's hit and run accident occurred on March 30, 2009 just after midnight when she was driving home on the 241 toll [...]

A woman was killed in a Los Angeles car accident after one of two drivers involved in a street race the night of August 9, 2009 struck the woman's car. According to a CBS news report, police are looking for the two drivers who apparently fled after the crash, which occurred at Normandie Avenue and [...]

Ricardo Sandoval, 33, was killed in a Los Angeles County hit-and-run bicycle accident the afternoon of July 10, 2009, the Press Telegram reports. Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Century Station are seeking the public's help to find a driver who they say struck and killed Ricardo Sandoval at Wright Road and Duncan Avenue [...]

California Highway Patrol officials in Los Angeles are seeking the public's help to track down a hit-and-run driver who they say struck and killed 26-year-old Abraham Guevara in a pedestrian accident the night of July 2, 2009. According to a news report in the Los Angeles Times, Guevara was jogging near West Avenue O and [...]

A man was struck and killed in a San Diego hit-and-run pedestrian accident the morning of June 14, 2009, 10news reports. The fatally injured pedestrian, who has not yet been identified, was walking north across the 3200 block of Meade Avenue when he was struck by a car that was heading east, San Diego police [...]