Wrongful Death
A wrong way, head-on crash on Interstate 80 northeast of Sacramento has claimed the lives of three people. The California Highway Patrol stated that the three victims, Kendra Langham, 18, Mathew Beard-Witt, 18, and Matthew Azar, 20, were driving east on Interstate 80 with Azar driving. At about 2:10 a.m. west of Madison Avenue, their […]
A fiery crash near Sacramento, occurring about 1:30 a.m. on Friday in Fair Oaks, has left four people dead and two more hospitalized with serious injuries. According to a California Highway Patrol spokesman, two vehicles collided head on, resulting in a fiery crash. One of the vehicles, a Buick LeSabre, was carrying five passengers and, […]
A deadly crash in Modesto may have been due to a driver under the influence of alcohol, according to police. The unidentified 32-year-old Modesto man was charged with homicide and driving under the influence after his 2010 Chevy Malibu crashed into a 2012 Audi at the intersection of L and Eighth Streets, killing the 38-year-old […]
A mother and her four children died while the family’s father tried to save them in what is one of the year’s most tragic accidents caused by another driver. The terrible story unfolds when the 29-year-old mother and her four children ages 1, 3, 6, and 11 were riding in a 2003 Ford Expedition and […]
Two men were killed when the car in which they were riding hit a tree near Howe Avenue and American River Drive, ejecting them both from the vehicle. The two were identified as Deshpal Singh, 25, and Pardeep Singh Aulakh, 23. It is unclear which of the young men was driving at the time of […]
Tragedy struck the family of former Sacramento Kings center Vlade Divac, whose father died in a car crash in Serbia at the age of 77. Divac’s father, Milenko, was either driving or was a passenger in a vehicle that hit a light pole and rolled several times before coming to rest. Divac’s mother, Radmila, was […]
August 23, 2013—Redwood City, California—The California Highway Patrol has released its findings that the deaths of five women in May in a limousine fire were due to mechanical failure of the car and not to the driver’s actions. Authorities have stated that they will not charge the driver, who has been accused of making a […]
A senior from Truckee High School died in a rollover crash when the truck he was riding in as a passenger flipped and landed partially on top of him. Andrew Metlenko, 18, of Reno, was riding with his friend Cory Adam Neill when Neill lost control of the vehicle on a dirt road. California Highway […]
We handle a lot of Sacramento wrongful death cases. And the hardest type of case that we have to handle is when a parent loses a child. And we find that, just emotionally, parents are grief-stricken, they’re devastated, and they really don’t have the ability to deal with a situation from a legal standpoint and […]