Stockton Personal Injury Lawyer –
San Joaquin County Car Accident Attorney
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If you have been injured in a car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, or pedestrian accident, call Attorney Michael Rehm to find out how you proceed from here. There are certain steps that can be taken to ensure a prompt recovery, your medical bills are paid, and you are reimbursed for your lost wages and pain and suffering. Available after hours and weekends, call (209) 490-5049.
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One of the most beautiful cities in all of Northern California, it’s easy to see why more than 300,000 people call this picturesque community home and why so many thousands more important to Stockton, California each and every year to enjoy the incredible food, the amazing architecture and history, and all of the entertainment and amenities that only people of Stockton can call their own.
Originally a gold mining town that popped up like so many others in the heat of the Californian Gold Rush, Stockton stands a bit apart from the rest of those gold mining towns in that it was also a critically important seaport and remains one today. Situated on the San Joaquin River, with easy access to the Pacific Ocean, the opportunities that the city enjoyed thanks to their gold-mining routes and their busy seaport are unlike any of the other major cities in all of Northern California. The very first University in all of California (the University of the Pacific) has been situated in Stockton since 1923.
Of course, with more than 315,000 people calling Stockton their home (according to the most recent census), there is plenty of traffic to contend with when driving through the city roads and communities. The seaport is busy enough and attracts a tremendous amount of shipping vehicles on the highways and roadways of Stockton, but Interstate 5 and State Route 99 (two of California’s most important north-south highways) add even more traffic and even more congestion to these already overburdened roads.
State Route 4 will take you west to San Francisco as well, and that brings quite a bit of extra traffic to Stockton. All of this traffic inevitably results in higher levels of traffic collisions, accidents, injuries, and fatalities – with this city being ranked the fourth most dangerous city to travel by car in the State of California as of 2015.
In 2015 alone, 2271 individuals were reported to have been injured or killed in automobile accidents. 55 of those individuals were injured or killed with motorcycles involved, 131 of them were on bicycles, and 21 of those cyclists were under the age of 15 years old.
A fair share of traffic accidents resulting in injuries and fatalities had high speeds associated with the accidents themselves. More than 480 of those injuries and fatalities were speed related. 154 injuries and fatalities occurred between the nighttime hours of 9 o’clock and 3 o’clock in the morning, and 231 injuries and fatalities were reported in hit and run car accident situations.
At the end of the day, you want to make sure that you are as safe as possible when driving, riding, or cycling any of the roads in Stockton, California. Should you or someone you love find yourself in an automobile accident, call Stockton Car Accident Attorney Michael Rehm at (209) 490-5049 for the help you deserve.