California Injury Blog

Our readers are probably aware that we blogged a few times in the recent past, about our client Deborah Reichle whose husband David Reichle was killed in a Los Angeles car accident on a Torrance street right outside his friend’s home Thanksgiving morning in 2008. David suffered severe brain injury and died five days after the jeep driven by Sara Sherbin struck him. Basically, Sherbin drove down a very wide and quiet residential street before hitting David. She claimed later that she didn’t see David getting out of his car and turning to talk to a friend on the sidewalk. Sherbin plowed through David and didn’t even stop after she hit him. Instead, she shot across the street before coming to a stop two houses away.
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When dealing with an insurance company, it is always best to consult with a car accident lawyer in California. Insurance companies are for-profit organizations that are driven to make as much money as possible. As an employee of the insurance company, the insurance adjuster has a responsibility to make money for his company by holding back every last penny that he/she possibly can from your personal injury claim. As such, insurance adjusters are trained to do anything and everything within their means to withhold payment. While the insurance companies train adjusters to advocate their side, the average person must consult with a car accident attorney who will advocate their side of the story.

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Five people suffered serious injuries in a Los Angeles car accident after a man crashed a stolen sedan into an SUV as he was fleeing police. According to a Fox News report, the two-car crash occurred at East 43rd and San Pedro streets the night of October 18, 2009. Los Angeles police officials began pursuing the driver of the sedan when they saw him run a red light and tried to stop him. But the driver did not comply and fled running several red lights including one on East 43rd and San Pedro streets, where the car slammed into a Ford Explorer SUV.
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Three people — Rickie Reyes Jr., 22, , Zsorhzinnia Tevaseu, 19, and Racquel Cassini, 21, died and three others were injured on October 17, 2009 in a San Francisco car accident during a weekly spectacle of reckless driving in East Oakland called “sideshows,” which local residents say are terrorizing their neighborhoods. According to a news article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Reyes, Tevaseu and Cassini were in a Nissan Altima that was speeding west on MacArthur Boulevard. The Altima veered toward oncoming traffic, slammed into a parked Toyota Corolla and overturned on the sidewalk near 100th Avenue, hitting a pedestrian. The pedestrian and two others in the Nissan were taken to an area hospital with serious injuries.
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A female driver suffered major injuries in a Los Angeles car accident after the car she was driving collided with a Los Angeles Police Department patrol vehicle at an intersection in Venice, California. According to a CBS news report, the injury car collision occurred at the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Glyndon Avenue early morning October 16, 2009.
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Marilyn Bosshart, 74, was killed in a San Francisco car accident on state Highway 1 at Devil’s Slide the morning of October 13, 2009. According to a news report in the San Mateo Daily Journal, the driver of a Nissan Z coupe was traveling south on the narrow highway at a high rate of speed. California Highway Patrol officials said the Nissan crossed over the center line and crashed into Bosshart’s car head-on, killing her. The driver of the Nissan was also injured and taken to a San Francisco hospital. The driver of the third car that was involved in the car accident was uninjured.
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