Car Accidents

A 25-year-old San Francisco man was recently killed in a Potrero Hill neighborhood motorcycle accident. NBC San Francisco reports that the motorcyclist was fatally injured on Saturday when he collided with a van on Cesar Chavez Street near Evans Avenue.

A 32-year-old San Francisco man was seriously injured in a Highway 1 motorcycle accident just north of Bolinas last Sunday. Bolinas is an unincorporated town of approximately 1,600 residents, 30 miles north of San Francisco.

The Dolan Law Firm is pleased to announce that The Commerce Insurance Company of Massachusetts recently agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a client’s case even though the defendant only had a $100,000 liability insurance policy.

In our prior post, we focused on distracted driving — a behavior that is cited as one of the major causes of car accidents today. The behavior has been on the minds of a lot of people since it was targeted by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in 2009.

We have written in the past about how taking your eyes off of the road for even two seconds can more than double your risk for injury in San Francisco. Saying that distracted driving is a negligent behavior seems like a fairly redundant statement; so why are we all still talking about the problem?

It would not surprise people to learn that teen drivers have an increased risk for causing an accident than a more experienced adult driver would. In general, a person cannot get a driver’s license until the age of 16. These drivers in their teens are simply inexperienced, but inexperience is not the only factor in

When we talk about the kinds of damages that can result from a car accident, we most often focus on medical bills, pain and suffering or other kinds of physically-related injuries. Property damage is another type of compensation that accident victims can recover in a civil suit.

Monday morning started off with a tragic automobile accident, as a man was killed and two others injured during in a solo crash off of highway 101 that occurred shortly before 5 AM.  The SUV was carrying 8 family members, who were returning to their home in San Jose after a trip to Mexico. The

She has already received a good Samaritan award from the mayor of San Francisco, and now the 22 year old mom is being honored by the California Highway Patrol as well. Last October, the woman was driving her daughter to school on Highway 101 when she saw a truck crash happening in her rear view

Authorities say that two separate highway accidents occurred near Candlestick Park Monday. Officials believe the second traffic accident occurred in the stop and go traffic jam that followed in the aftermath of the first crash.