A pedestrian fatality was reported on August 27 in Sacramento involving a hit-and-run driver. The crash happened along northbound Interstate 5 close to the American River Parkway neighborhood around 4:15 a.m. Officers with the North Sacramento California Highway Patrol (CHP) reached the scene after receiving a report of a pedestrian accident and found the woman along the right-hand shoulder of the road.
A driver suffered serious injuries in a Sacramento freeway accident on August 23 when her Chevy SUV exited the road for unknown reasons and struck a tree. The accident happened near Truxel Road during the evening hours. The woman was reportedly ejected from her vehicle. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers who responded to the accident said the driver suffered major trauma and was transported to a hospital.
A head-on collision between two pickups occurred in Sacramento in the early morning hours involving a wrong-way driver. The accident was reported by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) as occurring on the bridge that passes over the American River around 5:30 a.m. A car was also involved in the collision that was traveling behind one of the pickups.
I’m Ed Smith, a Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer. New Year’s Eve is one of the most exciting nights of the year, but it does not come without risks. Each year party goers and revelers wait for the clock to strike midnight, often toasting the occasion with champagne. It might not come as a surprise to find that nearly half of accidents on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day involve driving under the influence of alcohol. The following are some tips that can help you stay safe on New Year’s Eve and avoid being deposed by a personal injury lawyer in Sacramento.
I’m Ed Smith, a Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer. In recent years, the medical community has been wrestling with an important decision regarding patients who suffer polytrauma from traumatic injuries that leads to multiple bone fractures: should they perform early external fixation as a bridge to more permanent surgical fixation? Or should they wait? A paper published in the Journal of Trauma Injury and Critical Care explores just that.
A young doctor came into my office today for serious injuries which he suffered when he and his family were struck head-on by a drunk driver. He had graduated from medical school a few years back, as had his wife. He had his own neurology practice which he had started in 2010, and his wife worked as a family practice doctor. They were just starting their own family and had little ones, an eight-month-old and a two-year-old.
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