El Dabe Personal Injury Law Firm Blog

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA (September 10, 2103) – Police report that 75-year-old Ruben Cecilio, a Huntington Beach resident, was driving near the intersection of Brookhurst Street and Garfield Avenue when he was involved in a collision with at least two cars.  The drivers of the two other cars suffered minor injuries. The Huntington Beach Police Department reports that that Ruben Cecilio was transported by paramedics to UCI Irvine Medical Center, where he died ... Read More »

ORANGE COUNTY (September 5, 2013) – A 41 year-old man was  killed when he was ejected from a rollover crash on the 5 freeway in Orange County on Thursday.  The man, identified as Charles Holguin III of Los Angeles, was a passenger in a Ford SUV, which witnesses report was swerving prior to the crash.  It is not clear if the swerving was due to driver error, or a blown out ... Read More »

Under our American system of laws, a wrongful death is a civil wrong (also called a tort) which can be remedied using the legal system the courts with payment of damages.  Every week in Southern California, several unfortunate accidents occur where a person dies unnecessarily because of another person’s negligence.  From the garden variety car accident to drunk driving accidents to pool drownings or house fires, most of these deaths ... Read More »

San Bernardino – Friday evening, at about 8pm,  a traffic collision occurred on Summit Valley Road, near Telephone Canyon Road in San Bernardino in the Hesperia area.  There was one fatality. Sheriffs arrived to find a collision had occurred between a Ford F250 pick up and a Toyota Tacoma. Their investigation yielded the following:  A Toyota Tacoma traveling north on Summit Valley Road struck Thomas Milton Turner, who was standing outside his Ford F250, ... Read More »

Rialto – Vanessa Fisher was killed on Wednesday riding in the passenger seat of an acquaintance’s car. On Wednesday around 7:25 a.m., the unidentified male driver of the car Fisher was a passenger in lost control of the four door Honda he was driving.  The Honda was traveling soutbound on Riverside Drive in a largely residential neighborhood between Pecan Avenue and West Willow Avenue.  The car veered off the road and hit ... Read More »