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San Bernardino Personal Injury Lawyer
Our San Bernardino office serves injury victims across the Inland Empire, from downtown San Bernardino to Redlands, Rialto, Colton and Fontana. Personal injury attorneys fighting for maximum compensation. Free consultation, available 24 hours.
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Accidents in San Bernardino
Local roads. Insider strategy.
San Bernardino sits at the center of the Inland Empire, where Interstate 10, Interstate 215 and State Route 210 carry commuters and heavy commercial truck traffic through the San Bernardino Valley. Busy arterials such as Highland Avenue, Base Line Street, Mount Vernon Avenue and Hospitality Lane add constant surface-street traffic, and serious crashes happen on all of them. The insurance company's playbook is the same everywhere: get a recorded statement, minimize the injury, and settle fast and cheap. Our attorneys has spent more than two decades fighting insurers fighting insurers, so we know that playbook and how to beat it. Our offices in Sherman Oaks and Woodland Hills make it easy to sit down with an attorney in person, and phone and video consultations are available if you can't travel.
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Know the hotspots
San Bernardino danger zones
1N Waterman Ave & E Highland Ave
A crossing of two major arterials in north San Bernardino. At busy intersections like this, heavy turning and cross traffic is exactly where red-light and failure-to-yield collisions, including T-bone crashes, tend to happen.
2E Hospitality Ln & S Tippecanoe Ave
Hospitality Lane is a commercial, hotel and office district beside Interstate 215. Freeway traffic, shoppers and hotel guests all converge here, which is why rear-end crashes and collisions at driveways and parking-lot exits are a real concern.
3W Base Line St & N Mt Vernon Ave
Base Line Street is a major east-west route and Mount Vernon Avenue is a main north-south route near downtown. Where two arterials cross, through traffic mixes with pedestrians and transit riders.
4N E St & W 5th St
In the downtown core, E Street carries commuter, delivery and pedestrian traffic close to the civic center. Crosswalk collisions and low-visibility turns are common risks in dense downtown grids.
The rules that apply
California law for your claim
California's 2-Year Statute of Limitations
Under California Code of Civil Procedure § 335.1, you generally have two years from the date of your accident to file a personal injury lawsuit. Claims arising in San Bernardino County are typically filed in San Bernardino County Superior Court. Don't wait: evidence disappears long before the deadline.
Comparative Negligence in California
California is a pure comparative negligence state (Li v. Yellow Cab Co.). Even if you were partly at fault for your San Bernardino accident, you can still recover compensation, reduced by your percentage of fault. Insurers often inflate your share of blame, and we push back on that.
Government Claims (Caltrans / City / County)
If a dangerous road condition on a city street, county road or state highway caused your crash, you may have only six months to file a government claim under the California Tort Claims Act. Contact us right away so that deadline doesn't pass.
General information, not legal advice.
From the Case Vault
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Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different and must be evaluated on its own facts.
What we handle in San Bernardino
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Our offices are at 15233 Ventura Blvd, 5th Floor, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 and 5353 Topanga Canyon Blvd, Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA 91364. For San Bernardino clients we meet by phone, by video, or at your home or hospital. Call (818) 873-5918 any time, day or night.
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