$1,000,000 Recovered in Culver City Auto Accident Case
A young woman was awarded $1,000,000 after being injured in a severe car accident caused by an unsafe left turn in Culver City. Her injuries required multiple surgeries and ongoing treatment.
A young woman was awarded $1,000,000 after being injured in a severe car accident caused by an unsafe left turn in Culver City. Her injuries required multiple surgeries and ongoing treatment.
Plaintiff, a 20 year old female at the time of the subject accident, was traveling through an intersection with a green-light signal on a public street located in Culver City, CA; during which time, the Defendant, who at the time was traveling the opposite direction of travel and not paying attention to oncoming traffic, made an unsafe left turn and severely collided with front driver’s side of Plaintiff’s vehicle.
The intensity of the impact has caused Plaintiffs thousands of dollars in personal damages. It is manifested that the Defendant took no attention to his speed or the traffic ahead of him, thereby precipitating a collision with Plaintiffs’ vehicle. The Defendant was operating the vehicle in such a reckless manner, in violation of the following California Vehicle Codes: 21801 – (a). “The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left or to complete a U-turn upon a highway, or to turn left into public or private property, or an alley, shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching from the opposite direction which are close enough to constitute a hazard at any time during the turning movement, and shall continue to yield the right-of-way to the approaching vehicles until the left turn or U-turn can be made with reasonable safety.” 22350 – “No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.” 23103 – “(a). A person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving.”
As a result of his automobile accident, Plaintiff suffered from a right hand fracture, along with injuries to her right wrist, neck, upper back, middle back, lower back, as well as headaches. Plaintiff’s injuries were significant enough to incur $302,000 in medical expenses. Plaintiff required a right hand surgery, a right wrist carpal tunnel release surgery, as well as cervical spinal pain relieving injections, to where she now has ongoing sporadic right hand, right wrist and cervical spine pain, for which she will require intermittent chiropractic and physical therapy treatment.
Defendant disputed and Plaintiff’s claims for injuries and damages. Defendant also disputed the reasonableness and necessity of Plaintiff’s medical treatment. However, through the testimony of expert doctors, it was determined that Plaintiff’s injuries and treatment were reasonable and necessary, considering the severity of the impact. Messrs. Khakshooy and Agarwal were able to recover $1,000,000 for Plaintiff.
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