North County Injury Blog

Two men were looking under the hood of their broken down Honda on the left side of northbound I-5 near SR-52 when they were slammed from behind by a large sedan, which was previously hit in what was described as a 5-car accident. The crash caused the two men working on the Honda to be…

One of the most maligned jury verdicts in United States history is the McDonald’s coffee case. You can approach 100 people on the street and ask if they’ve heard of it, and 95 will have heard of it, and a majority of those will have a negative opinion. The case has been used as an…

A volunteer on the museum ship Star of India was killed on Sunday after he fell approximately 40 to 50 feet from one of the ship’s pasts. According to witnesses, 68-year-old Gregory Gushaw on the starboard side of the forward mast performing training exercises with other volunteers when he fell. He apparently struck his head…

Most people view whiplash as a minor injury, but car accident victims will tell you it’s much more serious than one would expect. Technically, whiplash is a sudden over-extension of the neck that is usually caused by being struck from behind, as in a rear-end car accident. At the moment of impact, the body moves…

The fireworks show at San Marcos’ Bradley Park turned out to be a bit of a dud, and a painful dud at that, when an errant firework shot into a crowd of spectators and injured four people. Thankfully, the injuries don’t sound serious, but one individual was taken to Palomar Hospital for treatment and apparently…

It was announced yesterday that the Pacific Law Center is no longer taking new clients, and will be closing its doors. The heavy-advertising law firm with a checkered past has concluded that the business model of taking cases on payment plans is just not working in today’s economic times. The 107 employees were apparently informed…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that six manufacturers of drop-side cribs will voluntarily recall more than 2 million baby cribs after more than 250 reports of malfunction. In 16 of the reports the infants were entrapped, and in one the child was rendered unconscious and hospitalized. No wrongful deaths have been reported. The…

Good news California. The U.S. Supreme Court may have just inadvertently helped us put an end to the maddening referendum process that pollutes every election cycle in our state. Yesterday, in the case of Doe, et al. v. Reed, Washington Secretary of State, the Supreme Court voted 8-1 that individuals who sign petitions to put…

The day before summer began, a 5-year-old boy from the Rolando area drowned in his neighbor’s pool. On Sunday afternoon, neighbors learned that Nicholas Norman was found floating face down in a home on the 4000 block of Loma Alta Dr. Neighbors told investigators that the little boy was at home with his father and…

There is a great story in the L.A. Times today about an out-of-work and homeless plumber named Stephen Schulman who was run over by a large delivery truck while sleeping near a dumpster. His legs were crushed, and in a great scene, he checks himself out of the nursing home where he is recuperating and…