Santa Ana Personal Injury Lawyer

Your case would be heard in Santa Ana

Civil cases in the Orange County Superior Court are heard at the Central Justice Center, at 700 Civic Center Drive West, in the Civic Center downtown. That is true for a crash anywhere in the county, and for a Santa Ana crash it means the courthouse is in your own city.

Most injury cases settle without a trial. But a case is valued by what would happen if it went to trial in front of a jury drawn from this county, so the courthouse matters even when you never set foot in it.

Who writes the report

Where the crash happened decides which agency responds, and which agency holds the report you will need:

• City streets — the Santa Ana Police Department
• The 5, the 55 and the 22 — the California Highway Patrol, even though the freeway runs through the city

Get the report number at the scene if you can. If you cannot, note the agency, the date and the cross streets. That is enough to find it later.

The streets the city itself calls dangerous

Santa Ana adopted a Vision Zero plan in June 2024, with the goal of ending traffic deaths and severe injuries in the city by 2040. The city's own studies name First Street as one of its most urgent problems: between Bristol Street and Tustin Avenue it carries around 36,000 vehicles a day, with a collision rate more than twice the national average for similar roads, and speed is a leading factor in the worst of them.

That matters to a claim. When a city has studied a corridor and named it dangerous, the evidence of how crashes happen there already exists, and so do the questions about who knew what. A crash on a road like that is worth a closer look than an insurer will give it.

Walking, cycling and riding the bus

Santa Ana is a city where a lot of people walk, ride bikes and take the bus, and they are the people hurt worst when a car gets it wrong. If you were hit while walking or riding, the insurer will often try to put part of the blame on you. Read pedestrian accidents and bicycle accidents for how those arguments work and how they are answered.

If a bus, a city vehicle or the condition of a public road was involved, 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.

Where the injured are taken

Two of Orange County's trauma centers are close by. Orange County Global Medical Center, on North Tustin Avenue in Santa Ana, is a Level II trauma center. UCI Medical Center, in neighboring Orange, is the county's only Level I adult trauma center.

Wherever you were treated, ask for your records and keep every bill, discharge sheet and receipt. They are the backbone of the claim.

In Spanish, from the first call

Most people in Santa Ana speak Spanish at home. Boyd Johnson speaks Spanish fluently, and he handles cases in Spanish himself, without an interpreter in the middle. This page is also in Spanish.

Call Boyd

The first conversation is free, it obligates you to nothing, and Boyd takes it himself. If you do not need a lawyer, he will tell you that too.