Robert Reeves

A car accident lawsuit that’s headed to a San Luis Obispo, California court alleges that it was a dangerous road that caused the accident as much as drugs and alcohol. Six years after the accident that left him with severe head and body injuries, Aaron Gurican, then just 17-years-old, is charging that the county maintained an unsafe road without streetlights that was at least partly responsible for causing the drunk driving accident.

A jury in a Santa Ana courtroom will begin to hear opening statements soon from both attorneys in a case that threatens to become a highly emotional one – involving negligence of the city on the one hand, and parental supervision, or the lack thereof, on the other.

A drunk driver rear-ended a motorcycle in Morongo Valley on Sunday, throwing both the riders off the bike. The driver Carlos Rodriguez, has been arrested.

As an update to a story we carried last month in our California drunk driving accident lawyers blog, a former Stockton police trainee has been arraigned in an accident case that killed one of his passengers.

An El Cajon, California man will stand trial in a drunk driving accident case that occurred in July of this year. 35-year-old Shannon Shimp is charged with two counts each of murder, as well as gross vehicular manslaughter in the deaths of Ian Kinney and Joseph Warren Edwards.

A pickup truck driver who smashed his vehicle into a car in Manteca, California in a severe car accident that caused injuries to its two occupants, left an unlikely calling card at the scene - his vehicle’s license plate. That was all the evidence police needed to nail the driver who had fled from the scene of the accident.

A Yuba City, California driver can expect to be charged in connection with a drunk driving accident in which two of his close friends were killed.

There was more than one reason to be thankful during the holiday season this year, traffic accident fatalities were markedly down across California as compared to last year.

A truck driver believed to have been on medication caused a chain of mini accidents on northbound Highway 1 in San Jose. The 56-year-old motorist initially clipped a white sedan, and then kept driving, hitting several signs on the way. He eventually came to a stop, but yet again attempted to continue driving. He then lost control of the truck and it rolled over. The truck accident knocked the driver unconscious.

A California Highway Patrol investigation report into the truck accident near Santa Clarita last year has concluded that the driver’s speed played a major part in the crash. The report has also expressed concern over the state of the tractor-trailer at the time of the truck accident, and this, the district attorney fears, could be used by the defense team as the principal cause of the accident.