The 213,000 residents in Fremont live in the largest suburb in the bay area, right outside of San Francisco. However, this doesn't change the fact that personal injury risks are part of the city's streets everyday.
Fremont, like all of California in recent years, has seen the rise in drunk driving car accidents and hit-and-runs. Accidents of these sorts seem to be an epidemic lawmakers and law enforcement are struggling to deal with.
In 2005, a driver under the influence of alcohol swerved and hit a Fremont police officer's car. The officer sustained minor injuries and the driver was arrested.
A more tragic accident occurred a couple years later when a 22-year-old study abroad student was pulled over with his broken-down Toyota on a Fremont shoulder of the Interstate 880. It was around 3:30 in the morning, when a driver in a Lexus came speeding toward the off-ramp and broadsided the student in the Lexus. Both cars slid 100 yards and the Lexus flipped on top of the Toyota.
It took Fremont firefighters 45 minutes to retrieve the victim's body from the wreckage. The Lexus driver had fled the scene in the mean time. Any Fremont hit-and-run attorney will stress the importance of being a reliable driver, obeying the speed limits and DUI laws, and being responsible toward your fellow drivers, especially if an accident has occurred.
A strange string of hit-and-run accidents took place in the bay area in 2006, raising the awareness of the Fremont and San Francisco communities that hit-and-runs are a serious issue. Around 14 people were injured or killed by a motorist who was seen deliberately running people down on the streets of San Francisco. A 54-year-old man had been run down and killed earlier in the day in Fremont, and the police linked the events.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a police spokesman said the attacks in the city occurred at 12 locations over the duration of a 20-minute period. Witnesses recalled the driver, who held residents in Fremont, as "zombie-like", as if he had no fear of consequences.
Fremont Product Liability Issues are Cause for Concern
A Fremont auto body shop worker died in 2005 when he was crushed by a lift that collapsed. According to the Alameda County coroner, he was working at a Chevrolet dealership in Fremont. The 48-year-old worker died when the portable scissor lift collapsed on top of him. The lift had a car on it.
Fremont job accident attorneys are concerned that the company was at fault for not maintaining their equipment or that the lift was defective, a case of product liability.
Another instance of a product acting differently than it was expected to has resulted in the deaths of 140 people across the country, including a man in Fremont. A policeman was pursuing a suspect and shot him with a Taser gun between seven and nine times as the suspect attempted to escape over a wall. The suspect was taken to the hospital, where he seemed to be fine, and then inexplicably fell unconscious and died.
Taser guns are used by police to deliver a 50,000-volt jolt to stop a person with brief incapacitation. Taser guns are used instead of real firearms when the intent is not to kill the suspect, yet, in these instances people have been dying.
Products liability lawyers are unsure that the Taser gun is safe to use in cases where the shot is not meant to kill. The product malfunction may be the fault of the company that makes the Taser guns, or improper use of the guns by the police against suspects.
In over three decades, BISNAR | CHASE lawyers have represented over six thousand people in car, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian and other personal injury cases. The law firm has an "AV" rating, the highest level of professional excellence, by Martindale-Hubbell. John Bisnar, who is the author of this article, and his partner Brian Chase each have a "Superb 10/10" Avvo rating, the highest possible. John was named a "Community Hero" by the United Way, while Brian was named a "Trial Lawyer of the Year" in 2004,one of the 2007 Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and a 2009 OC METRO Top Personal Injury Lawyer. Isn't this the legal team you want representing you? For more information on Fremont personal injury lawyers, visit the BISNAR | CHASE website at http://www.BestAttorney.com where you can get a complimentary copy of the book "The Seven Fatal Mistakes That Can Wreck Your California Personal Injury Claim" ($14.99 value), or call 1-800-561-4887 for a free consultation.
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