Blog Posts in June, 2011
Posted on Jun 23, 2011 By Jim Burns
Our client was a passenger on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle in Stockton. They were stopped when an uninsured motorist crashed into them knocking off our client. She was violently thrown ...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2011 By Jim Burns
The Dunnion client, a custodian for the local school district, was stopped at a stop sign and was slammed from behind and her van had major damage and was declared a total loss. Our client went to the ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Jim Burns
Fresno resident, on his way home on his motorcycle, was suddenly faced with a driver in front of him who recklessly made a wide U-turn without warning. The Fresno native could not avoid rear-ending ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Jim Burns
The client was waiting for her light to turn green when she saw a big rig bearing down on her, apparently unable to stop. She had a friend’s baby in a car seat in the back and frantically tried ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Jim Burns
A 28 year old who had ridden bicycles all of his life was struck by a pick up at a four way stop in Kern County. The police report blamed the bicycle rider for not stopping at a posted sign. Rebuffed ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Jim Burns
On the morning of 6/30/2009 a young man laid off from his job as an air conditioning mechanic with on his way to do some part time work for a friend as an auto detail man. He never got to the job. ...
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Posted on Jun 9, 2011 By Jim Burns
A 17 year old High School student joined a group of drinking age boys for a ride in the friends Cadillac Escalade. All of the boys we drinking in the car. While not intoxicated the driver used lost ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2011 By Jim Burns
A Bakersfield woman suffered a fractured ankle from fall at the house they rented from their landlord. The woman and her husband had moved into the house six weeks before the accident occurred. During ...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2011 By Jim Burns
A 79 year old woman suffered a broken hand when a negligent vehicle operator ignored a red traffic signal plowing into the driver’s side of her 2000 Honda with his 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2011 By Jim Burns
A young telemarketing consultant from Fresno was injured when he was riding a limousine in Las Vegas. He was transported to a Las Vegas hospital where the ER physician could not confirm a thumb ...
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