San Diego Car Accident Lawyer Blog

An 73-year-old woman from Julian, a City in San Diego County, was killed on August 10, 2009, when the 2001 Ford Explorer she was driving overturned multiple times and crashed into a large pine tree on a mountain road in eastern San Diego County. Authorities recently released the name of the victim, identifying her the next day as Charlotte Lorraine Winn.

Winn, along with her 68-year-old husband, were in the single-vehicle collision on San Diego's State Route 79, north of Wolahi Road just before 3:30 p.m. on August 10, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. Paramedics who arrived on the scene transported Winn to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, although she died a short time after getting to the hospital. Winn's husband had suffered moderate injuries and had to be taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital.

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On August 6, authorities released the name of a 24-year-old man who was killed when his Toyota truck struck a row of parked cars, lost a tire, and subsequently overturned in Imperial Beach. John Kirk Colgan, Jr. hadn't been wearing a seat belt when he was ejected by the car crash, which occurred on the 1200 block of 11th Street around 10 p.m. on August 5, according to San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. The cause of the San Diego County rollover car accident has still been under investigation.

Witnesses to the tragic auto accident performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Colgan when they saw what had happened, but he was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics who arrived shortly thereafter. Colgan had lived in Imperial Beach and is survived by his wife and young son.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in an Imperial Beach car accident, contact San Diego County auto accident attorney Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego, CA car crash lawyers of the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego County personal injury attorneys online here.

A firefighter suffered minor injuries on the morning of August 15, 2009, when a motor vehicle hit the back of his engine at an earlier freeway crash, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

The engine crew of the firefighter had just arrived at the scene of a prior car accident on northbound Interstate 15 at Mira Mesa Boulevard, and was around midnight. The California Highway Patrol reported that a car had hit a tire in the freeway lanes and rolled over as a result. When the firefighter exited the fire engine, he had seen the car approaching and tried to take cover behind the rig. However, the car hit the engine, which then had impact on the firefighter, propelling him in the air. He had to be taken to a hospital for treatment of bumps and bruises, and was thankfully released back to duty.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego car accident, contact San Diego, CA auto accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the other California personal injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego County injury accident lawyers online here.

Two California Highway Patrol officers were shot at last week in the early morning hours as they were chasing a suspected drunk driver off the freeway and onto the streets of El Cajon, east of San Diego. While one officer returned fire, it is unknown whether anyone was wounded as police are still searching for the suspects in the vehicle.

Officers had tried to pull over a Honda SUV driving along Interstate 8 at 3 a.m. but the driver refused to stop and simply left the freeway and initiated a chase along East Madison Avenue. The car eventually pulled over near Roberta Avenue, and both the driver and passenger ran in opposite direction. CHP authorities ran after the driver when they were shot at from the opposite direction. It is unknown whether anyone was wounded.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego drunk driving auto accident, contact San Diego DUI car accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the El Cajon car accident lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You can also contact these San Diego, CA personal injury lawyers online here.

A San Diego car accident injured five people in the Mira Mesa area of San Diegolast week. San Diego police reported that a man they suspected had been drinking was behind the wheel of a 2001 Ford Escort driving east on Mira Mest Boulevard close to Reagan Road at 3:30 p.m. the day of the collision.

The man suspected of drinking drove straight through an intersection with a red arrow without stopping and ultimately collided with a 1998 Toyota Sienna van, resulting in a devastating San Diego auto accident that injured both drivers and three passengers. No arrrests had yet been made pending results of an investigation of the situation.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego car wreck, contact San Diego auto accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the California auto accident lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You can also contact these San Diego personal injury lawyers online here.

A brutal car accident in San Diego County so badly damaged the vehicle that it had to be airlifted out of Torrey Pines States Reserve last week by helicopter.. The 1984 Mercedes 300SD had exasperated park officials who did not have financial resources to remove it from the ditch where it's been lodged in one of California's most enviornmentally sensitive nature area.

Multiple agencies collaborated to remove the vehicle, led by the state Parks Department, requiring chains attached to a cable dangling from a Huey helicopter and then lifted a short distance to a remote road in Sorrento Valley. The car had originally flown off of a precipice along North Torrey Pines Road on January 5 when the driver lost control narrowly missing a man walking along the shoulder of the road. It remained lodged 140 feet down a vertical bluff near gold sandstone that faced Interstate 5. The uninsured driver of the car both survived the crash and made it halfway up the cliff by the time rescuers had arrived. The car had remained visible from roadways over a mile away, prompting many to call 911. A supervisor speculated they received about a half-dozen calls daily to emergency responders.

While it seemed easy and low-budget to simply drag the car out of the area, many feared dragging the car out would be too damaging to the natural reserve which has extremely rare wildlife that has not changed for thousands of years.

It is very fortunate that the driver survived the fatal car wreck that took him down an embankment, but avoiding such a wreck in the first place would have been much more settling to all. Please pay careful attention while on the road, often times we are unaware the power we and our vehicles have and how damaging they can be. Safe driving in the best driving.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in an San Diego car crash, contact San Diego auto accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego County personal injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego, CA personal injury lawyers online here

A man killed in a single-vehicle San Diego car crash on August 13, 2009, was identified as John Kirk Colgin Jr., 24, according to the San Diego Medical Examiner's Office. Colgin had been speeding in a Toyota pickup truck on 11th Street near Fern Avenue at 10 p.m. when he hit several parked cars, officials said. The right front tire came off of the vehicle which caused Colgin to lose control of his truck and it overturned, killing him in the San Diego car wreck.

Colgin had not been wearing a seat belt and was partially thrown out of the truck, which then rolled on top of him. Witnesses had lifted the truck off of him and worked on performing CPR when the paramedics arrived, but he still died from the injuries he sustained. Colgin was married and lived with his wife and son in Imperial Beach, the Medical Examiner's Office reported.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in an Imperial Beach car crash, contact Imperial Beach, CA car accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego County personal injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego personal injury lawyers online here.

The ex-Media Chief for the popular O'Reilly Factor, a talk show on politics hosted by Bill O'Reilly, passed away after a tragic Santa Rosa, CA motorcycle accident that took his life. He had been riding along a winding Point Reyes-Petaluma Road to his mother's house in an effort to avoid traffic on Highway 101. The 59-year-old resident of Santa Rosa, California, was on his way to have dinner with his mother, something he did once a week.

The deadly California motorcycle accident occurred when Amen collided with a van outside of Petaluma just between San Antonio and Hicks Valley roads, at 6:15 p.m. on August 12, 2009. A report by the California Highway Patrol from Marin County says that a 2003 Ford E-350 van had driven out of the southbound lane and into the northbound lane, directly in the way of Amen's 2008 Ducati motorcycle, and the two vehicles collided with fatal results.

Both the Ford and the Ducati caught on fire at the moment of impact. The Ford hit a gate and cattle just east of the roadway and a small brushfire ensued from the motor wreck. The driver of the truck left with minor cuts and scrapes on his arms. Amen had been thrown from his motorcycle and landed in a ditch at the side of the roadway. He died at the scene.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in a San Francisco, CA motorcycle crash, contact Northern California motorcycle accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the San Francisco personal injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Francisco accident lawyers online here.

A suspected car thief was hospitalized on August 6 following a San Diego County car crash that killed his passenger as the vehicle he was in was being pursue by sheriff's deputies in San Marcos. The auto accident occurred off the eastbound side of San Diego's State Route 78, east of Nordahl Road, just before 8 p.m. on August 5. The pursuit happened just moments earlier when deputies had spotted a stolen two-door Honda Accord by Center Drive and Nordahl Road in Escondido.

The vehicle had been reported stolen earlier in the day from another area of San Marcos, according to sheriff's Sgt. Charles Cinnamo. In the midst of the car chase it appeared as though the driver of the Honda was not familiar with how to handle a manual transmission vehicle, and lost control of it on the highway of the chase that lasted merely a quarter mile. The car chase ended when the Honda slid off the freeway across a dirt path, struck a tree and flew into a concrete drainage ditch, ejecting both the driver and the passenger. The driver, Gumersindo Gutierrez, 19, has been seriously injured in the San Diego car chase but is expected to survive.

The passenger was identified as Guillermo Ceja, 23, who died at Palomar Medical Center at 11:36 p.m. Deputies recovered a stolen car stereo and a loaded handgun in Ceja's possession. Gutierrez faces charges that will include vehicular burglary, possession of stolen property, felony evading, driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter.

Ross Jurewitz is a San Marcos car accident attorney representing people seriously injured, or the families of people killed, by San Diego County auto accidents, commercial truck wrecks, and motorcycle crashes. The San Diego, CA personal injury lawyers of the Jurewitz Law Group handle injury accident cases throughout California. You can contact his office at (888) 233-5020 or you can contact these injury lawyers online here.

A San Diego native was killed last week in North Dakota in an auto accident that occurred between his car and a semi-trailer on the road.

According to authorities, 45-year old Ray Gibbons, Jr. of San Diego was on the road when a motor vehicle crossed a center line while driving south on North Dakota's state highway 3 around 9:30 a.m. last Thursday. The state Highway Patrol of the northern United States reported that the northbound tractor-trailor truck braked and turned right before striking the car head-on. Gibbons was pronounced dead at the scene about 10 miles north of the city of Harvey. The semi driver was treated and released.

If you or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego auto accident, contact San Diego commercial truck accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the other San Diego car accident lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego, CA personal injury attorneys online here.

An Oceanside car accident a few weeks ago that left a 9-year-old girl dead has put the 23-year-old driver on trial. The driver plead not guilty to the charges of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI, and child endangerment. The girl was the daughter of a woman he was dating.

Michael J. Wright Jr. of Commerce in Los Angeles County had been ordered to be held on $400,000 bail by Judge Marshall Hockett of Vista in San Diego County. Wright is facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted, according to Deputy San Diego District Attorney Jodi Breton.

The defendant was arrested after the fatal San Diego County car crash that killed his young passenger. The freeway collision occured around 1 a.m. on Monday on northbound Interstate 5 at Cassidy Street. The victim is identified as Violet Rosenquist, also of Los Angeles County, who was riding in the rear seat of the 2006 Lexus RS3300. Wright, the driver, failed to notice vehicles slowing down ahead of him in time, swerved to the right and then crashed into a Dodge Caliber, hit a Honda CRV, and slammed into the left rear side of a big-rig commercial truck.

The girl was flown to Rady Children's Hospital, where she died minutes after the arrival. Wright is charged with one count each of gross vehicular manslaughter with alcohol, DUI causing injury, DUI with a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent of higher and two counts of child endangerment with an allegation of great bodily injury.

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Five people, all family members, were reported dead after their SUV crashed and caught fire on an Orange County freeway in Mission Viejo on April 4, 2009.

California Highway Patrol Officer Gabe Montoya notes that witnesses saw the SUV blow a tire causing this Interstate 5 auto accident. The vehicle then spun over an embankment and rolled several times before landing on the roof and catching on fire.

The Orange County Coroner mentioned that a 37-year-old man along with a 33-year-old woman were inside the SUV at the time, along with three other females. The passengers had apparently been trapped inside the car and could not escape. Their bodies had tragically been burned beyond recognition.

If you or or a loved one has ever been injured or killed in a Mission Viejo car accident, contact Orange County auto accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the Orange County personal injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (888) 233-5020. You may also contact these Mission Viejo injury accident lawyers online here.

A Valley Center man was the center of a fatal truck accident in San Diego that left him dead last week. The accident took place in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego. It is suspected that the man suffered a medical emergency while behind the wheel.

The truck motorist had been driving southbound near Robinson Avenue around 12:45 p.m. on August 4, 2009, and lost control of his 2002 Ford F350 when it veered off the left-hand side of the roadway and struck a guardrail. The truck then came to a stop at the center median of the road, according to the California Highway Patrol. Medics that arrived on the scene did perform CPR on the man before taking him to the nearby Scripps Mercy Hospital, but was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival. His name was withheld pending notification of his family.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego truck accident, contact San Diego truck accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the other San Diego injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also reach these San Diego personal injury lawyers online here.

Northbound Interstate 5, which runs up the western coast of the United States, saw a deadly pedestrian accident in Oceanside just north of Harbor Drive on August 10, 2009, when a pedestrian was struck and killed on the freeway.

A motorist in a Honda struck the pedestrian in the early morning hours, according to the California Highway Patrol. The CHP was forced to shut down all four lanes of the northbound I-5 highway while officers investigated the car crash. While the lanes were reopened shortly before 2 a.m., the pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Further information regarding the victim, driver, or accident had not been made known as of Tuesday afternoon.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego pedestrian accident, contact San Diego pedestrian accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the other personal injury attorneys in the San Diego law firm, Jurewitz Law Group. You may also reach these San Diego injury lawyers online here or by calling 619-233-5020.

A recent survey by Allstate Insurance Company of cities with the best drivers found that Los Angeles and Orange County drivers fared far worse than the national average in terms of safety. The survey, which looked at accident rates and data from 194 cities, found a number of Southern California cities within these counties to be in the bottom third of the results. In fact, four Los Angeles area cities were in the bottom 20 cities in the safety survey.

The survey also found that cities with a population of more than one million people were far more likely to have a higher than average accident rate. For example, San Diego car accidents were found to occur at a rate of 13% greater than the national average. Not too bad for a city that finished at 108, near the middle of the rankings. But Los Angeles auto accidents were 46.6% more likely to occur, earning them their 184th place finish.

The top 10 United States cities with the best drivers can be found here.

A young man from Southern California died this past weekend in an Interstate 5 car accident when the vehicle he had been a passenger in swayed off of the highway and then overturned.

California Highway Patrol identified the victim as Frederick Windsor IV, 18, from Southern California's Highland. The Bakersfield rollover car accident happened at approximately noon on August 9, 2009. The car had been headed south on Interstate 5 around the Bakersfield area near the Ashe Road exit, traveling around 70 miles per hour when the driver, Melissa Chavez, 18, drifted onto the right shoulder. Chavez over-corrected and rolled the car into a dry ditch.

Windsor was killed in the fatal Kern County car crash, while Chavez and another passenger, Anythony Stith, 18, received only minor injuries. The CHP reported that Windsor had not been wearing his seat belt at the time of the wreck, and it is still under investigation whether or not drugs or alcohol played a part in the fatality.

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A Fresno commercial truck driver was arrested on August 3, 2009, when his big-rig carrying tomatoes was involved in an early morning crash that ended up leaving four people dead from this Fresno interstate trucking accident.

The California Highway Patrol reported that the car wreck happened just after 5 a.m. on August 3 just 40 miles southwest of Fresno when the truck driver allegedly ran a stop sign and hit a small car nearby. Witnesses to the collision noted that the truck driver fled the scene but was located about three hours later and arrested on suspicion of both a hit-and run-accident with injuries and vehicular manslaughter. The commercial truck was towed for evidence. The collision was strong enough that it ripped the roof off of the car.

The only survivors of the multiple car pileup was one young woman, who had to be taken to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries.

If you or anyone you know has ever been involved in a Fresno hit-and-run car accident, contact Fresno auto accident attorney Ross Jurewitz of the Jurewitz Law Group. He and his trained team of personal injury lawyers in Fresno can provide you with a free evaluation of your case and provide helpful and useful information. These Fresno accident attorneys can be contacted by calling (888) 233-5020 or online by clicking on the link above.

Five people died on August 4, 2009, when an SUV rolled off of San Diego's Interstate 5 southbound in Mission Viejo and rolled down an embankment and ultimately burst into flames.

The crash had been reported at 10:25 a.m. near the La Paz Road exit, according to CHP Office Gabe Montoya. Initially it was unknown how many died in the fiery wreckage burned from the accident, but it was later confirmed that 5 people were killed.

Witnesses to the accident noted that a tire on the SUV blew out, and caused the driver to lose control. Investigation was still under way as of Thursday, and the exact cause is still not yet known.

What is known, however, is that there were multiple people in the vehicle. The exact number is not known, but the occupants were trapped inside while it burned. No one was able to survive and there were numerous fatalities in the deadly Orange County multi-car accident.

Some other reports note that many inside the car were children, and that the driver had survived the crash initially, but went back into the burning vehicle in an attempt to rescue the other occupants, but was unsuccessful.

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A California Highway Patrol patrol car was involved in an auto accident on San Diego's Interstate 805 on the night of August 4, 2009.

The CHP cruiser was cut off by another driver on the northbound side of the freeway close to Imperial Avenue near to the Lincoln Park area of San Diego. The patrol car then spun out of control and collided with the center divider of the freeway.

The car accident, which happened around 9:35 p.m., closed a lane of the northbound I-805 and the CHP officer suffered only minor injuries and did not require medical attention.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego car accident, please contact San Diego auto accident attorney Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego personal injury lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego injury lawyers online here.

A nine-year-old girl from Los Angeles, identified as Violet Rosenquist, was the sole victim of a multi-car pile-up on Interstate 5 in Oceanside early in the morning of August 3, 2009. The driver of the car she was riding in was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and drunken driving, according to California Highway Patrol authorities.

The deadly Oceanside car accident happened just after 1 a.m. when traffic on northbound I-5 was heavy and slowing to nearly 25 mph. It took place north of Cassidy. A Lexus sport utility vehicle was traveling at 50 mph in the fast llane and needed to swerve to avoid the slowing Dodge Caliber in the lane ahead. Unfortunately, the Lexus' left side hit the right rear of the Caliber, cause the Lexus to lose control completely/ The right side of the SUV struck a Honda CRV and a semi-truck before coming to a rest on the freeway.

The girl who died had been a back-seat passenger in the Lexus and was taken by helicopter to Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The driver of the Lexus, 23-year-old Michael Wright of Commerce, was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. Authorities did not release information about his relationship to the girl.

A 38-year-old man in the Honda did suffer moderate injuries and was taken to Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. A 50-year-old man in the Dodge suffered only minor injuries. The crash briefly closed all lanes of the freeway and affected traffic until after 3 a.m., according to the CHP Web site.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in an Oceanside car accident, please contact Oceanside car accident attorney Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego County injury lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego personal injury lawyers online here.

A deadly San Diego County motorcycle accident occurred last weekend when a motorcycle collided with a car on the road, and the man driving the motorcycle was killed. He has been identified as a 44-year-old Chula Vista resident.

Michael Vankleeck was the rider, who died at the UCSD Medical Center at 2:35 p.m. on July 31, 2009, merely an hour after the crash took place at Nacion Avenue and Montclair Street in Chula Vista, per reports from the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Officer.

Vankleeck had been riding southbound along Nacion Avenue and broadsided the motor vehicle while in an intersection, according to Officer C.J. Burroughs of the Chula Vista Police Department. It is a tragic occurrence and we continue to ask all on the road to exercise cautious and safe behavior while sharing it with everyone else, as lives are easily taken, especially in motorcycle accidents.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in a Chula Vista motorcycle accident, please contact Chula Vista motorcycle lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego personal injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego injury lawyers online here.

Earlier this week, a man was killed when the vehicle his wife was driving swiped a van along Interstate 8 in the East County highlands and rolled into a gorge, leading to his death. He was recently identified as being a 70-year-old man resident of National City in San Diego County.

Dennis Conrad Wolf had been the front seat passenger in his wife's vehicle, a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier that unexpectedly swerved in front of a commercial van just off of Willows Road in Alpine around 12:45 p.m. on July 31, 2009, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Officer. The back of the their car hit the front of the truck in this fatal San Diego auto accident. The Cavalier then spun out and off the south side of the freeway, rolling around 50 feet down a steep embankment.

Wolf was partially thrown from the car, which then ended up landing on top of him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Wolf's wife was airlifted to a trauma center for evaluation on suspicion of neck and back pain. The driver of the truck had no reported injuries.

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A United States Marine was killed on August 2, 2009, when the car he was riding in as a front seat passenger crashed into a tree in San Clemente. He has since been identified as a 22-year-old corporal.

Cpl. Edmond K. Vandecasteele IV, of Rockingham, N.H. had been an ammunition technician with the 1st Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton near Oceanside, according to 2nd Lt. Joshua Benson. The fatal San Diego area car crash occurred around 2:15 a.m. on Sunday in the 200 block of Avenida Vista Montana in the Orange County city just north of the Camp Pendleton Marine base. The other three riders in the cars were also Marines. The driver is still listed as being in critical condition at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, according to Benson. The two back seat passengers escaped without serious injury.

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The Interstate 405, known as the San Diego Freeway, saw a deadly motorcycle accident over the weekend when a 27-year-old man was killed in a collision along the highway.

The victim was Matthew Wekall of Cypress, who had been riding south on the 405 freeway when the accident happened, shortly after 7:40 p.m., just north of Magnolia Street. The accident was said to have involved a car, a sports utility vehicle, and a fixed object. Following the collision, Wekall was taken to Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley, and was pronounced dead at 8:32 p.m. at the medical center.

Traffic fatalities in Orange County had steadily been declining, with a reported rate of 14 percent drop in 2008. However, motorcycle deaths rose a staggering 44 percent from the previous year. The California Highway Patrol is currently investigating the motorcycle crash, with the concern of the rise of motorcycle fatalities.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego motorcycle accident, please contact San Diego motorcycle accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these personal injury lawyers in San Diego online here

An officer of the California Highway Patrol was injured on August 1, 2009, when a woman driving a stolen car ran into the cruiser head-on. The pursuit began around 8:30 a.m. along San Diego's Interstate 805.

The car was followed by a CHP officer onto West Street, which is a dead-end road close to Imperial Avenue in San Diego's Mountain View neighborhood. The woman driving the stolen vehicle backed the car into a utility pole before driving straight towards the officer, who at that point had already gotten out of his car and had his gun drawn. While the officer jumped out of the way, the woman rammed a second patrol car that had arrived at the scene.

After the car crash, the woman still refused to obey commands from the officers. She was taken into custody after officers fired a Taser at her. The injured CHP officer whose car was hit was taken to the hospital for some medical complaints following the incident but was later released.

If you or anyone you know has ever been injured or killed in a San Diego car crash, please contact San Diego personal injury attorney Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego car accident lawyers at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these personal injury attorneys in San Diego online here.