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New California Wrongful Death Law May Help Heirs of Car and Truck Accident Victims Killed in Accidents

Jose Mora died as a result of a wrongful death collision between a white cargo truck and a sedan car that was changing its tire on January 25, 2022.  Apparently the driver of the car was changing its tire, somewhere on the westbound side of the Simi Valley Freeway (118 Freeway) near its intersection with the San Diego Freeway (405 Freeway).

In addition to the tragic death of Mr. Mora, two other men were transported to a nearby hospital in serious condition.   There is no new word on their conditions.

MORE L.A. CAR, TRUCK, MOTORCYCLE, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS RESULTING IN WRONGFUL DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURY CLAIMS

Despite Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s goal of eliminating all traffic deaths by the year 2025, unfortunately traffic deaths and injuries have actually increased.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) just released data that up to December 25, 2021, 289 persons were killed in traffic collisions from January 1, 2021 to December 25, 2021.  That is an increase of 21% more deaths than the year before (2020) and an increase of 19% more than the year before that (2019).   You may click here to learn more about wrongful death claims and experienced wrongful death lawyers.  [As an aside, one does wonder why the LAPD was unable over a week into 2022 to provide date until the end of December 31, 2021?  Perhaps the reason is the prior years’ statistics cover this same unusual ending date and its best to compare exact time periods?]

There have been 38,680 reported deaths on U.S. roads during 2020, according to the National Safety Council, a nonprofit organization.  Many of these traffic accidents result in wrongful death claims.  This is the most car accident, truck accident, motorcycle accident and other motor vehicle deaths since 2007.   What is most startling about this motor vehicle wrongful death statistic is that we know that the quarantine shut-downs of the coronavirus 19  pandemic drastically reduced driving and traffic, so why would traffic accidents resulting in deaths increase?

The National Safety Council stated that this wrongful death statistic “was completely unprecedented.”  It added, “We didn’t know what was happening.”

Different possibilities for this increase in car and other motor vehicle death cases include that drivers are stressed out due to all the health, financial and other problems caused by this pandemic.  The National Safety Council opined that American drivers were releasing their anxieties and other problems, such as depression and feelings of isolation and loneliness, on the more wide-open roads that resulted from much less travel.

The Traffic Collision that Killed Fidel Salvador was at 170^th Street East and Lake Los Angeles Avenue, Palmdale, California

Fidel Torres Salvador was killed in a Palmdale traffic collision that according to the California Highway Patrol (also known as the CHP) occurred at approximately at 10:50 AM one week ago on Monday, May 10, 2021.

Mr. Salvador, age 50 years young, reportedly was pronounced deceased at the scene of this horrific wrongful death accident that occurred at 170^th Street East and Lake Los Angeles Avenue, in Palmdale California.

Jury Finds Former Officer Derek Chauvin Guilty of Murdering George Floyd.

At about 2:10pm today, April 20, 2021, the judge in the Derek Chauvin murder trial read the jury verdict – Former Officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all 3 counts of killing George Floyd.

Chauvin was found guilty of:

We are looking for witnesses to this fatal collision causing the death of our client.  If you have any information, please contact us now.

If you witnessed the traffic collision between a Ford vehicle and the bicyclist on Thursday, February 25, 2021, at about 4am to 4:30 am, on Channel Islands Blvd., please contact us.

This collision resulted in the death of our client.  His family is grieving and truly needs the assistance of anyone who observed what happened or has any information concerning this incident.

Remember last year’s deadly Labor Day fire on the boat named Conception?  A federal grand jury finally indicted its captain, Jerry Boylan, age 67, on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter.   Of the 34 wrongful deaths, 33 were passengers; one was a member of the crew.  This disaster that occurred on September 2, 2019, during Labor Day weekend, is regarded as one of the worst maritime disasters in recent U.S. maritime history.

If convicted of this crime, Captain Boylan faces up to ten (10) years in prison for each count of seaman’s manslaughter.  However, in such multiple counts, convicted defendants have usually served much less time in prison.

Meanwhile, the boat’s owner, reportedly Glen Fritzler and his company, Truth Aquatics, have been the object of investigations by multiple government agencies that commenced shortly after the boat burned and sank.