Orange County
Fountain Valley Personal Injury Lawyer
Boyd Johnson grew up in Fountain Valley. It is a small city with a busy freeway running through it, wide arterial streets, and one of the biggest parks in the county at its center.
The 405
The 405 cuts across Fountain Valley, with exits at Brookhurst Street, Euclid Street and Magnolia Street that feed straight onto the city's main arterials. Merging traffic, sudden slowdowns and lane changes at speed make rear-end and multi-car crashes routine, especially at the interchanges.
If you were rear-ended, liability is usually the easy part. What the insurer will fight is how badly you were hurt.
Who writes the report
- City streets — the Fountain Valley Police Department
- The 405 — the California Highway Patrol
Get the report number at the scene if you can. If not, note the agency, the date and the nearest cross streets or exit.
Mile Square Park
Mile Square Regional Park, in the middle of the city, draws cyclists, runners and families from all over the county, and the streets around it carry fast traffic. If you were hit while riding or walking, read bicycle accidents or pedestrian accidents.
The park is run by the County of Orange. If you were hurt by a dangerous condition in the park itself, the claim is against a public agency, and a government claim has a much shorter deadline than an ordinary injury case. Call before you assume you have time.
Hospitals
Fountain Valley has two emergency departments: MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center on Talbert Avenue, and UCI Health — Fountain Valley on Euclid Street, the hospital formerly known as Fountain Valley Regional. The most serious injuries are often taken to a trauma center instead, such as Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana or UCI Medical Center in Orange, the county's only Level I adult trauma center.
Wherever you were treated, ask for your records and keep every bill and discharge sheet.
Where the case would be heard
An injury lawsuit from Fountain Valley is heard at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, along with civil cases from the rest of the county. Most cases settle before trial, but that courthouse is what an insurer weighs when it values a case.
Call Boyd
The first conversation is free, it obligates you to nothing, and Boyd takes it himself, in English or Spanish. If you do not need a lawyer, he will tell you that too. This page is also in Spanish.
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