San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Alicia Slaughter

A bicycle accident in Costa Mesa left a boy hurt after a collision with a motor vehicle.,  The  12-year-old boy was riding westbound on Dallas Street when a car  heading northbound  on San Angelo Avenue   struck him at  around 3:45 p.m. Thursday. Paramedics took the boy to Sharp Grossmont Hospital for treatment [...]

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A car-versus-bicycle accident in San Diego left a 9-year-old bloodied and subsequently hospitalized.  The  accident occurred when the boy, who had been riding his bike in the 1300 block of Tarbox Street, was hit by an oncoming car.  The accident itself was reported at 4:45 p.m.  in the afternoon.  When authorities arrived on the scene [...]

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There are numerous places where a bicycle accident can happen and why.   Of course, the most deadly often occur on our nations roadways, in fact, 716 bicyclists were killed in traffic accidents in 2008. This was a slight  increase from 2007 statistics which indicated that 698 bicyclists were among the 41,059 fatalities that happened  [...]

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A 4-year-old girl died this morning while riding in a child seat attached to her father’s bicycle. Her and her gather were struck by a San Diego trolley as they traveled through Chula Vista. Apparently, the two approached the track while the gate lowered and the father attempted to evade it. Unsuccessful, the San Diego [...]

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A cyclist traveling eastbound on a local Beyer Boulevard sidewalk was injured after crashing into a border patrol vehicle, placing him in the hospital with injuries as of Wednesday. The San Diego bicycle accident, which occurred just after 11am on Tuesday, resulted as the border patrol vehicle pulling out from a parking lot while the [...]

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An unhelmeted bicyclist was hospitalized after crashing his bicycle into a parked vehicle, an accident that caused the 32-year-old man major head injuries. The bicycle accident occurred in Stockton on Sunday, and the man remained hospitalized on Monday. According reports from San Diego Police, the man was riding at high speeds when he crashed into [...]

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Jim Gafney, a 65-year-old and retired computer engineer of Chula Vista, was killed during his protest efforts in a bicycle ride from Chula Vista to Washington, DC. The bicycle protest, in which Gafney was the lone supporter, involved a cross-country bicycle ride from Chula Vista, California to Washington, DC to protest government bailouts. Within the [...]

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A bicycle accident that occurred in San Diego killed a student, aged 22, who was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. The bicycle accident occurred near Mission Bay on a northbound I-5 onramp, where Jonathon Ramirez received both head injuries and neck injuries that later led to his death. Paramedics transported Ramirez to Scripps [...]

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Millions of Americans ride bicycles each day. Some ride for the commute from home to work and back home again. Some ride occasionally just for sheer pleasure. Many ride seriously to keep fit and healthy, and some ride bicycles competitively. The two main enemies of the bicycle rider are careless automobile drivers and potholes. The [...]

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