Southern California Personal Injury Law Blog

Driver fatigue is one of the leading causes of truck accidents on the road. After driving for hours, truck drivers might start to feel both physically and mentally exhausted. The highway starts to "blur" together, and the driver is at risk of nodding off at the wheel....

Truckers in California and across the U.S. have to continually deal with fatigue, and they should know that fatigue can raise their risk for a crash by making them inattentive and slow to react. Avoiding fatigue means, first of all, obtaining a sufficient amount of...

The artificial intelligence firm Netradyne conducted an online survey from Feb. 25 to March 10, 2020, involving 1,248 drivers in California and across the U.S. Half of the respondents expressed concern that driving was becoming less and less safe with 82% citing...

Perhaps someone you know suffered head trauma in a California car accident, a contact sports incident, or a slip and fall accident. Even though that person may feel that the same, you may have started to notice mood swings and other psychological, or even physical,...

The number of pedestrians killed after being struck by a motor vehicle in California and around the country has increased by 35% in just the last 10 years, and pedestrian fatalities have now reached a level last seen 30 years ago. When the Governors Highway Safety...

After a ride-share accident in California, figuring out the insurance can be confusing. While Uber, Lyft and other ride-share companies provide supplemental coverage to people who are injured in ride-share accidents, the coverage does not come into effect until the...

Based on a preliminary study, the Department of Transportation said there was likely an overall decrease in fatalities for 2019. However, fatalities from truck crashes have continued to increase in California and across the U.S. The fatality rate per miles driven saw...

Drivers in California who are traveling in rural areas will want to be careful around agricultural equipment like tractors. Though rural areas contain only 19% of the U.S. population, more than half of all fatal road crashes occur in them, according to the U.S. DoT....

If you were injured in a car accident in Los Angeles, California, one of the first things you'll want to find out is who was responsible. There are many ways that a driver can become negligent, and one of the most widespread is drowsy driving. Drowsy driving is...

There were 5,977 pedestrian deaths across the U.S. in 2017, many of which were in California. That same year, an estimated 137,000 pedestrians went to the emergency department to be treated for non-fatal injuries. In a car crash, pedestrians are 1.5 times more likely...