PERSONAL INJURY LAW for OVER 45 YEARS! We Have Won Over 98% of Our Cases*

| by

According to ABC 7 News, just before 4 a.m. on June 28, 2018, on the 5 Freeway in Santa Ana, a driver of a Jaguar sedan crashed head-on into a motorcyclist. The Santa Ana motorcycle accident killed both the Jaguar driver and the motorcyclist on impact.

The Jaguar driver, who caused the collision, was driving in the wrong direction on the freeway—travelling southbound while in the northbound carpool lane. Officers reported that the vehicles immediately burst into flames. The accident mangled the motorcyclist’s body, making it “one of the worst [accidents] in a while.” The northbound freeway was closed for hours.

Continue Reading

| by

Around 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 26, 2018, a driver slammed into another car causing a serious Los Angeles rollover car accident. According to news reports, the driver that caused the rollover crash was speeding in the Northridge area in an attempt to flee a previous crash that he caused just up the road on the same street. In his attempt to flee the first crash, he ran a red light and crashed into another car, causing the car to roll.

The car involved in the rollover contained six passengers. All of those in the vehicle were hurt, including a 7-year-old child, and were rushed to the hospital. The condition of these Los Angeles car accident victims was not immediately known.  Continue Reading

| by

A San Bernardino County pedestrian accident in Bloomington this week caused the death of three siblings, and left their mother seriously injured. According to CBS News, 19-year-old Leonardo Bravo lost control of his Dodge Challenger and collided with the group of pedestrians. The car continued forward, finally crashing into a tree and brick wall.

The pedestrians, a 20-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy, and a 14-year-old girl, were walking home with their mother along Slover Avenue when the accident occurred. The mother, who survived the accident, was rushed to the hospital with moderate injuries.  Continue Reading

| by

A Tesla sedan collided with a Laguna Beach police car parked on Laguna Canyon road. Luckily, no one was injured in the accident. The Laguna Beach Patch reported that the car accident occurred when the Tesla on autopilot suddenly veered out of its lane and into the police car.

According to The Patch, this is not the first Tesla accident in that area. Last year, at the same location, anther autopilot Tesla crashed, “with almost identical circumstances…the difference was that the male driver ran into a semi-truck.” It is still not clear what caused the car to swerve in the present case, but certainly interesting that it occurred in the same spot as a previous crash.  Continue Reading

| by

According to ABC 7 News, locals have come to dub Inland Empire’s Ramona Expressway, “Blood Alley.” Driving along the expressway over 40 roadside memorials can be seen, tributes to those killed in car accidents along the corridor. Last week alone, there were three deadly head-on collisions. The Ramona Expressway is a central thoroughfare for people commuting back and forth to work, causing heavy traffic.

The expressway is dangerous because of heavy traffic, especially where the roadway narrows to just two lanes, one in each direction. Residents state that “You’ve got people passing you on the shoulder, people passing head-on on the one-lane bridge,” adding to the danger in this area. Continue Reading

| by

A fire that began in a Victorville neighborhood and raged through the hills, was started by illegal fireworks. ABC 7 News reported that after the fire began an explosion and a wind gust spread the fire quickly.  The fire caused damage to several homes and yards, though luckily, due to the quick response of firefighters, no homes were completely lost. One resident stated, “I pulled [my] curtain open, I looked through the blinds, and all I saw was a huge fire right above our house, it looked like it was going to fall into our back yard.” Fortunately for those who set off the illegal fireworks, there were no personal injuries caused by the fire.

Southern California fire marshals have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to illegal fireworks because of how dangerous they can be in the dry, fire-prone, Southern California environment. With the 4th of July just around the corner, residents in this Victorville neighborhood are urging people to remember that when “You shoot off a firework, and it only takes one spark for it to light a whole street on fire, if it wasn’t for the fire department being right up that street, who knows what would have happened?”

Continue Reading

| by

A young 19-year-old boy was seriously injured in a San Marcos motorcycle accident. According to Fox 5 San Diego News, the young motorcyclist was hit head-on near Palomar College.  The motorcyclist was driving on West Mission Road in San Marcos in the early afternoon. A 1990 Lexus pulled directly into the young motorcyclist’s path at Knoll Road, sending him crashing into the car. The teen was immediately rushed to the hospital. Medics reported that motorcyclist suffered serious and traumatic injuries, though not life-threatening.  Continue Reading

| by

ABC 7 News reports that Christopher Morales and Desmond Franklin were killed when the driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee ran a red light and slammed into their car. The two friends were out for an early birthday celebration for Morales who would have turned 26 a few days later.

Morales and Franklin were both passengers in a car driven by Morales’ girlfriend, who was injured in the Riverside car accident. The friends were driving in Riverside near the 60 Freeway, when the Jeep driver ran the red light causing the fatal accident. The Jeep driver got out of his car and fled the scene.

However, a few hours later police arrested Eric Figueroa-Reyes while he was at the hospital seeking medical attention for a broken knee-cap he sustained in the crash. While Riverside police are still investigating what exactly caused Reyes to run the red light, he will likely face criminal charges for hit and run.   Continue Reading

| by

On the evening of June 11, 2018, a multi-car collision on the 5 Freeway in Arleta caused the deaths of a 30-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, who died at the scene. Also injured in the multi-car Arleta accident were 2 other people, including an 85-year-old woman and a 21-year-old woman.

According to ABC 7 News, the two injury victims were transported to the hospital. The 85-year-old woman was in fair condition, but the 21-year-old woman was in critical condition. The crash shutdown all southbound lanes of the freeway for nearly seven hours.

Officials believe that the crash occurred when one of the vehicles stalled in the middle lane of the southbound 5 freeway. Another vehicle following behind struck the car traveling at freeway speeds, causing other vehicles to be involved.

Continue Reading

| by

Last fall, 12 wildfires tore across Northern California. The fires burned over 245,000 acres in Northern California, destroying 8,800 structures along the way and forcing over 100,000 people to evacuate. According to CBS News, a report by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says that PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric Co.) equipment caused several of these fires.

In total, the 12 fires killed 44 people, 15 of those deaths were attributed to two of the fires started by PG&E equipment. The investigation shows that there were violations of state law in regard to the care of the equipment including issues with electric power and distribution lines and the failure of power poles.  Continue Reading

Contact Information
Calabasas and Valley Law Offices
23801 Calabasas Road Suite 1019
Calabasas, CA 91302
Toll Free: 866-465-8792Phone: 818-222-3400Fax: 818-222-3405
Beverly Hills and Los Angeles Law Offices
9440 Santa Monica Blvd Suite 301
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Toll Free: 866-465-8792Phone: 310-279-5255Fax: 818-222-3405
We serve clients throughout Southern California, including, but not limited to, those in the following localities: Los Angeles County, including Beverly Hills, Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale, Inglewood, Lancaster, Long Beach, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, Norwalk, Palmdale, Pasadena, Pomona, Van Nuys, West Covina and Woodland Hills; Orange County, including Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Orange and Santa Ana; Riverside County, including Menifee, Norco and Riverside; San Bernardino County, including Fontana, Ontario and San Bernardino; and Ventura County, including Camarillo, Oxnard, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and Ventura. View More
All rights reserved

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Please do not include any confidential or sensitive information in any contact form, email or text message, voicemail or any other communication. The contact form sends information by non-encrypted email, which is not secure. Submitting a contact form, sending an email or text message, making a phone call, leaving a voicemail and or other communications do not create an attorney-client relationship. A retention agreement signed by all parties (that is, all clients and the attorney) is required. Each claim or case may have its own procedures, time deadlines and statute of limitations, including but not limited to by when to settle or file a claim or lawsuit, or the claim or case may be barred, lost and or dismissed. It is the sole responsibility of each potential client to comply with same unless and until a written agreement covering these issues is entered into and signed by all parties.

Copyright © 2025, Law Offices of Gary K. Walch. A Law Corporation
JUSTIA Law Firm Blog Design