According to the Orange County Register, in a single day this year three pedestrians were killed and one cyclist was critically wounded in a series of unrelated accidents on Orange County, California roads. Two of the three fatal accidents occurred less than three miles apart from each other, along a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway.
In the first reported accident, forty nine year old Beverly Frantz was killed on the 2600 block of Orangethorpe Avenue in Fullerton, California after being struck by two cars while crossing the street. Both drivers stayed at the scene and were released after questioning.
An hour later, another woman was hit by a 2003 Chevrolet while crossing the Pacific Coast Highway near 9th Street in Huntington Beach, California. Police are uncertain if the unidentified woman was crossing in the marked crosswalk.
In the early morning hours, police were called to another stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway in Seal Beach; an eighty year old man, believed to be a transient, was struck by a car while crossing against the light. The driver in that accident was released after police determined that he was not intoxicated.
Later that same day an eleven year old boy was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Cypress Street, near Old Towne Orange. The boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
What a sad day for Orange County, California. According to the California Highway Patrol, pedestrians account for 19% of traffic fatalities. Callahan & Blaine, California’s Premier Litigation Firm, is no stranger to pedestrian injuries and fatalities; in fact, we are one of the leading catastrophic injury firms in the state of California.
In the last five years alone our lawyers have obtained over $1.2 billion in verdicts and settlements, including a $7 million settlement for a cyclist who was left with a traumatic brain injury after being struck by a newspaper delivery truck, and a $7.25 million settlement in a case when a man was run over trying to board a city bus in Orange County, California.
Our success in litigating and negotiating personal injury cases comes from our uncommon approach; we handle each personal injury case as though it were a complex business litigation case, attacking it from every angle possible. While our firm is located in Orange County, California, we handle serious personal injury, wrongful death and product liability cases nationwide.
If you or someone you know has suffered a catastrophic injury or died as the result of an accident, please contact our California law firm for expert legal counsel.
