San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Alicia Slaughter

An Huntington Beach resident sustained serious injury Wednesday afternoon after a head on collision in Fountain Valley.  Authorities speculate that the 62-year-old man was speeding prior to veering into opposing traffic and slamming into a pick-up truck. Prior to the accident, Baron L.  Mahrling was driving eastbound in his gold 1996 Chevrolet Silverado in Ellis [...]

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33-year-old Gustavo Garcia was killed 6:50 am Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer overturned on a North County freeway interchange crushing the sedan he was driving.  The rollover accident transpired in Oceanside California shortly after Garcia drove onto the curving ramp from Southside Interstate 5 to eastbound route 78.  The Mexican national, who had been [...]

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A crash that transpired between a pickup truck and cement truck has killed a South Bay man, according to reports from the CHP. Over the weekend, the 32-year-old South Bay man was driving on an Escondido highway when he collided head-on with an oncoming cement truck. The truck crash, reported at 11:50 am on Saturday, [...]

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Commercial trucks are everywhere and so is the danger  large semis can pose to other drivers in given situations.  This is because truck drivers have a more difficult time controlling their vehicle due to the auto’s weight and size, with most weighing more than 80,000 pounds and reaching 75 feet in length. In a traffic [...]

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When a propane tank blew up within a van on Tuesday, a car accident and significant delays were the unfortunate result. At around 11 on Tuesday morning, a van carrying a propane tank on Harbor drive exploded and then hit a truck going the opposite way, causing a head-on accident. By some miraculous happening, no [...]

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A man from Valley Center is dead after crashing his truck into the median on State Route 63. At around 12:45 pm yesterday, the man progressed down the highway in his vehicle, a 2002 Ford F350. While driving, the man sustained some sort of urgent medical problem that may or may not have led to [...]

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A truck traveling on Interstate 5 spilled a significant amount of diesel on a section of the highway in Encinitas. According to CHP, the accident caused a traffic alert to arise in that area when the spill took place on Tuesday morning. Some of the fuel was removed via a storm drain, but crews were [...]

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An employee of Wild Animal Park in San Diego, 40, was injured on Tuesday after being struck and pinned under a truck. According to a San Diego Fire spokesman, the man was in the process of unloading the truck when the truck rolled back into him, as it wasn’t taken out of gear. The truck [...]

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A 75-year-old truck driver from Buena Park was killed after driving his vehicle through a guardrail in Cajon Pass. The man, William Trumble of Buena Park, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, located off southbound 15 Freeway near Baldy Mesa Road. Officials report that Trumble was driving a Dodge Pickup truck when [...]

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A new report has just confirmed that the recent I-5 traffic jam was caused by a crash between two big rig trucks in Carlsbad. The truck accident happened just before 7:30 near Tamerack Avenue, apparently causing traffic issues for southbound I-5 and westbound SR-78.
The truck accident in Carlsbad involved a moving truck and a semi-trailer truck that [...]

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