San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Alicia Slaughter

In Newport Beach today a repeat DUI offender was denied a plea bargain in a vehicular homicide case involving Charles David Lewis Jr., one of the founders of the clothing company TapouT.  Lewis Jr., a famed mixed martial art entrepreneur, was killed in March after defendant Jeffery David Kirby hit the victims’ Ferrari with his [...]

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An accident that was determined the result of drunk driving has injured 9 people in San Diego. At around 4:30 in the morning, the two cars crashed on their way to the San Ysidro area, returning from Tijuana. It was said that both drivers were returning from the same Tijuana party. 18-year-old Marcos Ramirez was [...]

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Two solo car accidents in the Long Beach area occurred on the same day and resulted in fatalities.  The first accident happened at 2 a.m. early Friday morning near Davies Bridge over Appian Way.  It involved 27-year-old Humberto Sanchez of Downey.  The Man had been driving eastbound on 2nd street when his gray 2001 Lincoln [...]

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A car accident resulted in a fatality Tuesday night when a man crossing the Harbor (110) freeway in Wilmington was struck by a car.  The accident occurred at around 8:50 p.m. in the No. 2 lane of the southbound freeway, which was south of Pacific Coasts highway.  The man died on the scene shortly after. [...]

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A fatal accident early yesterday morning may have been caused by drunk driving, authorities said. According to San Diego police, the accident took place at the 14000 block of El Monte Road, first seen by an off-duty officer just after 1 in the morning. The driver, Nico Faulk of San Diego, was traveling westbound on [...]

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A car accident in the Castaic region left one man dead after he plunged to his death by careening off a canyon.  The man, who was driving a Los Angeles Country van, fell 100 feet to his death and was identified this past Saturday by a coroner’s investigator.  He was 63-year-old Francisco Ramon Diaz, a [...]

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Emergency vehicles like fire trucks, police cars and ambulances legally have the right -of-way when they are en route to an urgent call and with good reason.  The drivers have to get to people who may be in desperate need of medical assistance or have to be rescued from potential danger. It is for this [...]

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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  from [...]

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8-year old Carlos Eric Salazar died at a local hospital Sunday afternoon bringing his personal family death toll to five after a police pursuit where three suspects were also killed. Carlos was one of five siblings who had been thrown clear when a fleeing motorist in a Dodge Neon ran a stop sign and crashed [...]

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A hit-and-run driver who was responsible for killing an Inglewood teen has turned himself in and was arrested for the young man’s death.  The 40-year-old south Los Angeles man was charged Thursday with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, driving on a revoked license and a felony count of leaving the scene of an accident.  The incident  occurred [...]

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