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     In a San Diego personal injury case, an injured party can recover different types of damages , including recovery of medical bills, lost wages, and "pain and suffering," also known as general damages.  Pain and suffering is sometime a difficult concept to grasp.  It can't be easily quantified, like medical bills.  Nonetheless, anyone who has suffered an injury knows that the harm is much greater than simply the medical costs. 

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     First of all, the most important thing to do after an accident, no matter how minor, is to get out of the way of other traffic, and make sure no one is hurt.   If someone is injured, contact emergency medical personnel (911) immediately.   If someone is hurt in an accident, California law requires that the police be contacted within twenty four hours.   You can report an accident by dropping by a station and filling out a report.   You can also fill out ...

 A La Mesa man was struck and killed by a car on State Route 125 in Lemon Grove early Friday.  After he was struck, his body became lodged in the windshield of the car.  The panicked driver then kept driving with the body in his car.  After slowing down after the crash, the driver decided to head for home, despite the fact that a body was lodged in his windshield.  Once the driver reached home, he called the authorities.  The crash sounds horrible .  The vict ...

   Lorenzo Charles, whose last second dunk gave North Carolina State a stunning victory in the 1983 college basketball championship game, was killed when a bus he was driving crashed along a highway in Raleigh, North Carolina.  No passengers were aboard, and the cause of the bus crash was still under investigation.  Charles grabbed Dereck Wittenberg’s 30 foot shot and dunked it at the buzzer to give North Carolina State the victory over heavily favored Houston.  The v ...

A study published today in the journal Addiction concludes that no amount of alcohol is safe to consume before getting behind the wheel of an automobile.   Nationally, most states define driving while intoxicated as a blood alcohol level of .08 .   Driving with a lower alcohol level, or driving “ buzzed ,” is not a crime in most jurisdictions.   

The study, prepared by researchers at UCSD , determined than even low amounts of blood alcohol contribute to car accidents and crashes. & ...

 According to an article in the Journal of Preventive Medicine , the construction industry had the highest number of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) in the United States, and the forestry and fishing industries had the highest rates of TBI's. The study states that although TBI's are a leading cause of death in the U.S., there has been no systematic study correlating TBI's and the workplace. The report concluded that construction, transportation, and agriculture/forestry/fishing are amo ...

      It has been known for some time that "distracted driving" (I.e driving while texting, talking on a cell phone, using a lap top, etc) is a leading cause of car accidents. A new study from Temple University shows that although the data is staggering about the effects of distracted driving, the penalties vary greatly from area to area, and often don't fit the severity of the crime. The study concludes that use of mobile devices is increasing nationwide , despite ...

     A car swerved out of control in the City Heights area Saturday morning, killing a mother, and injuring her son and boyfriend .  The trio was sitting at a bus bench on University Avenue, near Euclid.  The 71 year old driver reportedly suffered from severe low blood sugar , which caused her to lose control of her vehicle .  A security camera captured the tragedy.  The car, a PT Cruiser, jumped the road and plowed straight into the bus bench.  Those ...

     A tragic and hard to fathom accident has killed one cyclist and severely injured another.  The accident occurred when an out of control vehicle veered off the 56 freeway, up a 15 foot embankment, through a chain link fence, and onto a dedicated bike lane.  The car overturned on the elevated bike path after smashing into two bicyclists, killing one.  The bicycle accident happened on the Route 56 bike path at 6:20 a.m. in the morning.  The driver cla ...

     It seems logical, but a new study by Science Daily confirms what most of us already suspect: elderly driver's are less safe and more dangerous on the road . The Science Daily article  concludes that even healthy adults with safe driving records are less safe and could contribute to auto accidents and injury. Elderly adults tend to make more errors when they drive, even dangerous errors such as not checking blind spots or randomly veering across lanes of traffic. ...