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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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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The closure of a highway lane on Interstate 5 Wednesday morning was caused by a two-vehicle truck accident. At around 9 am, officials were contacted after the truck accident occurred in Oceanside. According to California Highway Patrol, the crash conspired between a 7UP truck and a jackknifed tractor trailer near Harbor Street of Interstate 5. [...]

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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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A Vista woman, Shannon Maureen Mahoney, was passenger in a pickup truck traveling through San Diego county when she be came victim to a fatal crash. Mahoney was not unaccompanied in the car, which was driven by Charles Lemay, 27, of Oceanside. While driving down State Route 78 in San Diego County, Lemay reportedly swerved suddenly, driving [...]

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