Personal Injury Blog

A 73-year-old woman walking home from church died after a hit-and-run near West Lathrop Road and Fifth Street in Manteca on September 18, 2026. Police asked the public for help identifying the driver.

A man died after a hit-and-run collision near Wagner Heights Road and Single Tree Court in Stockton early September 17, 2026, according to police.

A 14-year-old girl died after a September 11, 2026 collision between a Mazda sedan and a commercial box truck at Alvarado-Niles and Decoto roads in Union City.

A bicyclist died after a September 11, 2026 collision involving a Chevrolet Silverado on Soquel Drive east of Porter Street in Santa Cruz County. CHP said the pickup-truck driver was arrested.

A pedestrian died after being struck in a marked crosswalk at Rigoletto Drive and S. King Road in San Jose on September 10, 2026. Police said the driver was arrested.

Three people suffered major injuries in a four-vehicle crash on East Liberty Road near Stockton, CHP reported.

A 56-year-old woman driving alone was killed after her vehicle collided with an agricultural tractor near Sand Creek Road and Shady Willow Lane in Brentwood on September 5, 2026, according to police-backed local reporting.

A bicyclist was killed after a Toyota Corolla struck him in the crosswalk at North First Street and Trimble Road in San Jose on September 4, 2026, police said.

An adult man riding an e-bike in a marked bicycle lane was killed after a dump truck struck him on Tully Road near Lanai Avenue in San Jose on September 3, 2026.

A 62-year-old bicyclist died after a driver struck him near Harder and Soto roads in Hayward early August 31, 2026, according to police-backed reporting.

A 22-year-old passenger died after a car struck a light pole near El Camino Real and the westbound I-380 off-ramp in San Bruno on August 30, 2026.

A 66-year-old Vacaville woman was killed Sunday in a head-on collision on Interstate 505 near Putah Creek Road after a 45-year-old man allegedly made a U-turn and drove the wrong way, according to CHP-backed reporting.

A woman died after a hit-and-run collision in a Milpitas parking lot, and local reporting later said an arrest had been made in the fatal case.

El Dorado County correctional officer Ryan Marietti, 21, died after a solo-vehicle rollover on Highway 50 near Strawberry on August 28, 2026, according to local reporting and the sheriff’s office.

A 66-year-old touring crew member died after a big rig carrying concert equipment overturned on southbound Interstate 5 in Yolo County on August 27, 2026, according to CHP-backed reporting.

Two men were killed when a wrong-way GMC SUV collided with a Honda pickup on Montague Expressway at the Lafayette Street overpass in Santa Clara on August 26, 2026.

A Department of Transportation worker died Monday evening, August 25, 2026, in San Jose after a box truck struck a crane truck while he was repairing a streetlight. The public reporting reviewed for this draft says the worker was operating the crane truck in an active roadside work area when the collision happened.

A crash in Sacramento County left one person dead and another seriously injured on Monday, August 25, 2026. The public reporting reviewed for this draft did not yet pin down the exact roadway, but it did confirm that the collision caused both a fatality and a serious injury.

Antioch police are searching for the driver who left a woman in critical condition after a hit-and-run crash on Monday, August 25, 2026. The exact vehicle and crash sequence were not fully public yet, but the serious injury and hit-and-run details make this a case worth tracking.

Local reporting on Monday, August 25, 2026, identified the San Ramon teen who was killed in a solo crash in Livermore. The crash itself had already been reported earlier, but this update adds the identification and underscores that the cause is still under investigation.

Photos and local reporting showed multiple people injured in a bus crash at the Richmond transfer station on Monday, August 25, 2026. The public materials reviewed for this draft did not yet confirm the exact count or how serious each injury was, so this stays framed as an injury crash with details still developing.

The San Mateo County district attorney says a nightshift worker dozed off before a crash that killed a Redwood City woman on Monday, August 25, 2026. The report frames the case as a fatigue-related fatal crash, which makes the cause question important even before the full file is public.

Richmond police arrested a suspect after 81-year-old Rafael Gutierrez Delgado was killed in a hit-and-run at 23rd Street and Hellings Avenue on August 23, 2026.

Monserrat Jimenez, 23, died after a hit-and-run near Hillcrest Avenue and the eastbound Highway 4 off-ramp in Antioch. Police said the driver ran a red light, struck her in a crosswalk, and abandoned a Chevrolet Tahoe after the crash. Investigators said they have identified a suspect and authored a warrant.

A driver was killed and another was seriously injured Friday afternoon, August 21, 2026, in a multi-vehicle crash on Elkhorn Boulevard near 20th Street in the Rio Linda area of Sacramento County. According to the California Highway Patrol, a westbound vehicle lost control and crossed into oncoming lanes, striking an eastbound vehicle whose driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

A motorcyclist was killed early Thursday morning, August 20, 2026, in a suspected hit-and-run on southbound U.S. Highway 101 next to the University Avenue on-ramp in East Palo Alto. The California Highway Patrol said the rider died at the scene, and investigators later searched a Sunnyvale neighborhood for a vehicle believed to be connected to the crash.

A Sacramento County jury convicted a man of two counts of first-degree murder for a January 2023 carjacking spree that ended when a stolen vehicle ran a red light at Florin Road and Florin-Perkins Road and killed two women, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. The verdict was returned Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

A 33-year-old motorcycle rider was killed Tuesday evening, August 18, 2026, in a collision with an SUV near Lewis Stein Road and West Stockton Boulevard in Elk Grove. According to the Elk Grove Police Department, a Honda CR-V and the motorcycle collided as both approached a turn toward Dracut Road, and the rider was pronounced dead at the scene.

Dionicio Romero Flores, 34, of Rancho Cordova, was killed late Sunday, August 16, 2026, after an SUV struck a group of men who were changing a tire on eastbound Highway 50 near 34th Street in Sacramento. CHP said one other person suffered major injuries and two others had minor injuries. DUI is not suspected, and the SUV driver reportedly stayed at the scene and cooperated.

A 19-year-old Livermore passenger was killed and two other passengers were injured Sunday evening, August 16, 2026, in a suspected DUI crash near Barnett Segal and Iris Canyon roads in Monterey. According to the Monterey Police Department, a 20-year-old Dublin man was driving a convertible that struck a tree, and he faces a charge of gross vehicular manslaughter.