Car Accidents

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention indicates that individuals living in large cities such as San Francisco are less likely to be killed in a car accident than individuals living in rural areas.

Manufacturers baulked at proposed regulations which would require anti-rollover technology to be included in all heavy-duty trucks and buses in the coming years. Currently rollover traffic accidents kill about 700 people across the country every year. Officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hope that adding electronic stability control will help reduce the number

CBS San Francisco reports that two men are being investigated for drunk driving after a serious car accident on Highway 101. The crash happened early Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. when a Santa Rosa began traveling northbound on the southbound lanes of Highway 101 by Pepper Road. The man smacked into a vehicle driven by

A group of San Francisco nurses recently rescued a woman and four small children after a Novato car accident. The nurses came upon the accident Wednesday afternoon near the South Novato Boulevard/Highway 101 interchange. The Marin Independent Journal reports that the nurses were returning from a trip to Sacramento when they came up to the

A 52-year-old Sacramento area man is dead after a serious multiple-vehicle crash in Modesto. California Highway Patrol officers report that the crash happened around 11 a.m. yesterday when a 25-year-old Turlock woman sideswiped a truck during a lane change on Highway 99.

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?