San Diego Personal Injury Attorney Alicia Slaughter

An Escondido truck accident trapped and killed an 18-year-old in her car on Friday evening, when she and a pickup truck crashed into one another at a downtown intersection. The teenager was making a left turn into traffic when she was hit by the pickup truck. The truck accident took place at one of Escondido’s [...]

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A San Diego truck accident transpired disastrously Thursday when one man became stuck in a burning semi trailer. The man could not be reached and burned in the truck after it exploded. On Thursday afternoon, the man’s truck and another truck were driving on Airway Road when they crashed into each another. One of the [...]

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A garbage truck in San Diego hit a boy crossing the street on Saturday morning in a horrible truck-pedestrian accident. The accident took place at around noon, killing the boy, who would have been turning 3 in the coming months. On the 1100 Block of South 43rd and Keeler, the young boy ran into the [...]

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A tanker truck overturned and exploded in a region of San Diego known as Otay Mesa last night. According to reports, smoke rose from the tanker for hours following the explosion. The tanker truck, operated by ARCO gasoline, was holding two tanks as it progressed down the road just before 5:45 pm. While trying to [...]

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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 living [...]

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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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