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Santa Monica Auto Accident Attorney’s Top Ten Causes of Car Accidents

August 10th, 2011 No comments

1) Changing Radio Stations – Sure we agree it’s necessary when a radio station decides to play the same song you’ve heard a thousand times before and really didn’t care for it the first time you heard it. But wait until it’s safe to make the change.

 

2) Running out of gas, water, oil, washer fluid, coffee… Sure we know that it’s expensive to have these things, but cars and drivers don’t run very well without them.

 

3) Mattresses On The Road – Just who is dropping those mattresses all over the freeways anyway?

 

4) Pot Holes – It’s the people who cause these things and then don’t cover them up like their golf course divots. Still, they can be a real eye opener at times when you are sleepy, so we have to give them a little credit too. Not good for the car or the psyche, but they do cause people to slow down.

 

5) Speed Bumps – Now these are going too far. Especially the really really high ones.

 

6) Snow – We don’t see much of this in Southern California, but if it ever does snow really hard in Southern California, people are going to see thousands of accidents in a single day.

 

7) Rain – Sure we know it’s fun to slip and slide, but not in your car. Hydroplaning is not fun when your brakes have absolutely zero effect.

 

8) Cell phones – Somehow I don’t have the feeling that people are paying attention to the law that says you can only use these with hands free devices.

 

9) Personal Grooming – This hasn’t been outlawed yet so I think we will continue to see people doing almost all of the things in their car that they should do at home before getting in the car, except perhaps for taking showers.

 

10) Looking at pedestrians and other drivers. That’s why we see so much tinted glass on cars, but the pedestrians especially at the beach can be real distractions.

 

Here are ten useful tips of advice from an auto accident lawyer to follow if you have been in an accident. You can also learn more about how to handle an auto accident in Santa Monica, or any city, by calling the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson at any of the numbers which can be found on our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learning how we can assist you.

 

Obviously, if you have had an accident, and you are reading all of this advice, it may have been a few hours since the accident. However, if you ever have another accident, or if it’s only been a few hours since you were hurt, here’s what you should do from the start.

 

First, take a look around and determine if you or anyone, are hurt. If so, taking steps like trying to prevent further injury or loss of blood are the most important thing you can do. Even if some other driver caused you to be injured, it’s just good manners to help the other driver if they are hurt. They may even be so thankful that they admit their fault to you. The worst thing you can do is get angry or start a fight.

 

Second, make sure everyone is safe from being injured further. If you are in the middle of traffic, and you are dizzy, sit down away from traffic. If your vehicle is a traffic hazard and you have accident warning devices like flares or triangles, put them out on the road to warn other drivers and get away from the car. Let the police an other emergency personnel investigate the scene with the vehicles in place and move them more safely at a later point.

 

Third, call the police. Accident reports are extremely helpful if the police will do such a report. Let the police know you are injured immediately. Answer the police questions honestly. But if you are dazed or confused, let them know you need medical treatment and answer only what you feel sure about. Remember, your statements can and will be used against you if you admit fault, and it will be too late and too fishy to later say you didn’t know what you were saying at the scene. Police know that your best recollection is immediately after an accident.

 

Fourth, get the other driver’s information including their names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, make and model of their vehicles, license plate numbers, and their insurance company name and policy number. If there are witnesses, get their names, addresses and telephone numbers as well. If the other driver makes any admissions of fault, write those down as well.

 

Fifth, if you have a camera on your cell phone or in the car and you aren’t too injured, take some photos of the vehicles and the scene. If you can’t do it right away, do it after you are released from the hospital.

Sixth, if you are hurt, obtain medical treatment. Don’t decline the ambulance or hospital examination to save your insurance company money or to be stoic. Take your valuables out of your car if you can and get checked out at the hospital. If you are not hurt, don’t get treatment you don’t need. However, remember, after an accident, you may feel a rush of adrenaline that causes you to only start feeling symptoms of pain a few hours later. If you have a health plan that requires you to obtain permission first, call them and find out where you are allowed to seek treatment.

 

Seventh, call a good auto accident attorney as soon as you have had your initial treatment, so the lawyer can gather other important evidence and prevent the insurance company from taking advantage of you and obtaining such things as recorded statements that you feel fine, when many of your symptoms have yet to manifest themselves. A good auto accident attorney can save you from making a great deal of mistakes and can shoulder much of the hassle of knowing what to do about car repairs, car rentals, medical treatment, witness statements and the like. If you think you will save money by not having an attorney, think again. A good auto accident lawyer can almost always obtain much higher settlements, obtain reductions of medical bills and insurance liens and prevent you from making costly mistakes. Also, most auto accident lawyers advance costs of obtaining police reports, medical records and the like and are paid and reimbursed for these costs only out of any settlement.

 

Eight, you will need to report the accident to your insurance company, but since they will want to take a recorded statement from you, just like any other driver’s insurance company, it’s good advice to retain an attorney first. And if the other driver did not have insurance, remember that it is your own insurance company that will be your adversary. You will also need to report the accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles and your lawyer can give you the form for this.

 

Ninth, do not agree to settle your claim privately with the person at fault for the accident. This almost never works out to your advantage. Don’t agree not to call the police. Police reports that determine the fault for an accident are golden. Your agreement to not involve the police only affords an opportunity for the other driver to change his story and blame you when the police will no longer investigate the accident.

 

Tenth, don’t pay a traffic ticket without a fight if you weren’t at fault or agree to accept a small payment for your vehicle repairs without knowing that the amount will in fact cover the cost of all the repairs.

 

If you’ve had an auto accident in Santa Monica, Long Beach, Carson, Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Oxnard, Cambria or San Luis Obispo, or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Santa Monica Auto Accident Lawyer and your Long Beach Auto Accident Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with auto, motorcycle, truck, bicycle, pedestrian, car, bus, train, boat and airplane accident experience, wrongful death experience and insurance law expertise who can ensure you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have a personal injury legal matter, a dog bite or if you’ve lost a loved one in a wrongful death accident, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com  and learn how we can assist you.

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Can’t figure out if someone is really dead, please read this and help?

December 16th, 2009 3 comments

Ok, so back in September, a VERY close pen pal of mine from myspace supposedly passed away at 22 years old, from cancer. His name was Gabriel. The thing is, NOTHING adds up! He lived in Virginia, I live in Maryland, roughly 1 hour away from one another.

This is why nothing adds up. While we were talking for the first 2 months or so, he seemed perfectly fine. We talked pretty much every single day. Then, he suddenly tells me that he’s very sick, like out of the blue, and tells me he has cancer, and that’s he’s on some kind of chemo pills or something like that.

Also, Gabriel never gave me his home address, just the location of a nearby "wawa" that was near his house. His friend Brian, also won’t give me his address. Gabriel both lived near the same area. Gabe lived in Woodbridge VA, Brian lived in Stafford VA. I believe they’re right next to one another.

A few weeks after I found this out, he ended up in the hospital. But he wouldn’t tell me which hospital because he knew I’d try to pay him a visit but he didn’t want me to see him supposedly because "he didn’t want me to see him in that condition."

Then I wanted to send him a get well soon gift, just a CD. So at first he said send it to his mom who will take it to him at the hospital, but then changed his mind and had me send the CD to his best friend Brian’s house for him to take to Gabe. (Brian, who I still keep in touch with, but never met).

This confuses me because after Gabriel passed away, I soon found out from Brian that Gabriel was supposedly at a hospital in Oklahoma which specialized in cancer. Are you trying to tell me that there was NO hospital closer than Oklahoma that specialized in cancer patients!? Gabriel had testicular cancer, however deadly that may be, I don’t know.

I only know of his death because Gabriel made Brian relay all this information to me. I didn’t find out he passed away until like 3 days after it happened. But, the morning I found out at like 4 am was also the same morning that would be Gabriel’s viewing. Brian said he would get back to me in a few hours to let me know where it was so I could be there, but never called supposedly because his mother didn’t know me so she didn’t want me there. Yet, there was supposedly about 120 people at his funeral!

Then he was supposedly cremated! No grave site for me to visit.

I’ve tried looking for death records of him online, for the past 4 months, and still can’t find ANYTHING about a death of a Paxton (his last name) in the Virginia area.

So I’ve been doing research since then. I’ve messaged just about EVERYONE on Gabriel’s myspace friends list, those who lived in Virginia anyway, and everyone said just about the same thing when I asked if they had ever met him, and they said "No, we talked online before, and planned to meet, but never did." He had about 26 people on his myspace. The ONLY person on his myspace that knew him was Brian. How is that not suspicious!?

So I wanted to meet Brian, because it would be comforting for me to be around someone who was also close to Gabriel since it’s harder to lean on my friends shoulders for support when they didn’t even know who he was. But, Brian won’t let me meet him, supposedly because "it’s too hard on him", yet it’s 4 months later! He also uses the excuse that he’s never home because of his job and is always on the road, yet there’s always a few points in time where he is home. And for someone who talks to me almost everyday for 4 months, it’s weird that he doesn’t want me to meet him.

I’m really starting to think that Gabriel and Brian might be the same person, but what do you all think? Please let me know! This is a huge mystery in my life and it’s really bothering me, so please give me some opinions. Thanks!
He also lived on his own. AND, his cell kept ringing for WEEKS after he passed away. I kept calling in hopes a loved one would answer, but nobody ever did, How can a phone last that long, even on standby!? And it was an iPhone at that and I hear the battery doesn’t last THAT long on those. After about a month or a month 1/2, his phone did get turned off.

I don’t think he didn’t wanna talk to me anymore, because he was usually the one who would always text ME everyday.

I don’t know but joking about cancer isn’t cool… People can die from it suddenly…

I hope your friend didn’t die, but if he was joking with it that is pretty sick..

I need help, so confused about something. Good answer for 10 pts.?

December 14th, 2009 1 comment

Alright, so this guy and I started talking on myspace. (He’ve been talking almost non-stop for like 3-4 months) Usually I don’t wanna meet people from myspace but this guy and I talked like every single day for a loooong time. I’m 20, btw, and he was 22.

Well finally we decided that we wanted to meet. One day he said he wanted to pick me up and take me to six flags so we could spend a day together. (I’m having some money issues right now) But I told him no because I didn’t want him to have to spend all that money on me. But we were planning on a weekend that we could get together and hang out once I saved enough money so we could go out out to eat and have a good time. He lived in Virginia btw, I live in Maryland, but only about an hour away.

Well THEN he tells me that he was really sick with cancer. He didn’t go into much detail with it, but he said he was taking like some kind of pills to fight the cancer, I think radiation pills? I don’t know, I’m not the brightest crayon in the box so don’t take my word for it.

Next thing I know, he’s in the hospital. Won’t tell me where cause he said he didn’t want me to come visit him (cause of the way he looked I guess) or send him stuff.

Then about 20 days later he passed away, sadly. September 23rd. I found out from his best friend Brian. The thing is, there’s NO records of this guy anywhere, it’s almost like he didn’t exist and I feel HORRIBLE thinking this way because it feels like I’m degrading his name by saying he didn’t exist. Bit it does seem like he either wasn’t a real person or he’s also his friend Brian, if that makes sense, like 2 in the same. I look him up on google, nothing, I keep calling his phone and it keeps ringing. It’s been Over 10 days now! Wouldn’t his phone be dead by now, or SOMEONE had picked up? Then I asked his friend Brian to tell me where the viewing/funeral was and he said his mom said she didn’t want me there cause she didn’t know me and it didn’t seem appropriate, yet there were about 120 people supposedly at his funeral!? Then I asked his friend where he was buried and he said he was cremated and that his ashes would be spread in Hawaii since that was his favorite place. And when I talk to Brian online, they seem so much a like, like they have the sane humor and what not…it still feels like the guy I came to know on myspace, even though there are still some differences. And so I asked Brian to send me one of those cards that you get from funerals and he said he couldn’t cause the mom had "brochures" made but he’s send me one of those instead. Then I asked Brian to give me his friends mothers address so I could send her some flowers and a letter, but he said she said that when he asked her for the address she said he already knew where she lived and that’s all that he needed to know, and hung up on him.

She’s kinda bitter with him right now because the guy I was talking to on myspace left EVERYTHING that belonged to him to Brian…for whatever reason. His death hasn’t even been logged in the death records yet, or whatever they’re called. I’m so confused and it’s scaring me! And then all of his friend on myspace (I started asking around trying to get more info about what happened) and it seemed like nobody even really knew him. Some people said they had talked to him before but has never actually met. That’s just weird to me seeing as how 120 people were supposedly at this funeral that I couldn’t even go to. And he was a homeowner of a very beautiful newly built house…yet he wasn’t listed in the white pages at all as a homeowner.

So I’ve come to the conclusion that…
1.) Him and his friend Brian are playing a VERY cruel joke on me.
2.) Brian and this guy are one in the same…for whatever creepy reason.
3.) This guy never existed…although that wouldn’t make much sense to me seeing as how we talked for MONTHS priot to him passing away.
4.) He was real and I’m just in denial and a jerk for thinking he didn’t exist.

But all these weird clues don’t add up! What do you think? Does something sound fishy here? I hope I’m not the only one who thinks so. What do you think? Sorry about the long rant.

sounds like they are the same person.

Long question, could his death be a joke? :(?

December 9th, 2009 9 comments

Ok, so back in September, a VERY close pen pal of mine from myspace supposedly passed away at 22 years old, from cancer. His name was Gabriel. The thing is, NOTHING adds up! He lived in Virginia, I live in Maryland, roughly 1 hour away from one another.

This is why nothing adds up. While we were talking for the first 2 months or so, he seemed perfectly fine. We talked pretty much every single day. Then, he suddenly tells me that he’s very sick, like out of the blue, and tells me he has cancer, and that’s he’s on some kind of chemo pills or something like that.

Also, Gabriel never gave me his home address, just the location of a nearby "wawa" that was near his house. His friend Brian, also won’t give me his address. Gabriel both lived near the same area. Gabe lived in Woodbridge VA, Brian lived in Stafford VA. I believe they’re right next to one another.

A few weeks after I found this out, he ended up in the hospital. But he wouldn’t tell me which hospital because he knew I’d try to pay him a visit but he didn’t want me to see him supposedly because "he didn’t want me to see him in that condition."

Then I wanted to send him a get well soon gift, just a CD. So at first he said send it to his mom who will take it to him at the hospital, but then changed his mind and had me send the CD to his best friend Brian’s house for him to take to Gabe. (Brian, who I still keep in touch with, but never met).

This confuses me because after Gabriel passed away, I soon found out from Brian that Gabriel was supposedly at a hospital in Oklahoma which specialized in cancer. Are you trying to tell me that there was NO hospital closer than Oklahoma that specialized in cancer patients!? Gabriel had testicular cancer, however deadly that may be, I don’t know.

I only know of his death because Gabriel made Brian relay all this information to me. I didn’t find out he passed away until like 3 days after it happened. But, the morning I found out at like 4 am was also the same morning that would be Gabriel’s viewing. Brian said he would get back to me in a few hours to let me know where it was so I could be there, but never called supposedly because his mother didn’t know me so she didn’t want me there. Yet, there was supposedly about 120 people at his funeral!

Then he was supposedly cremated! No grave site for me to visit.

I’ve tried looking for death records of him online, for the past 4 months, and still can’t find ANYTHING about a death of a Paxton (his last name) in the Virginia area.

So I’ve been doing research since then. I’ve messaged just about EVERYONE on Gabriel’s myspace friends list, those who lived in Virginia anyway, and everyone said just about the same thing when I asked if they had ever met him, and they said "No, we talked online before, and planned to meet, but never did." He had about 26 people on his myspace. The ONLY person on his myspace that knew him was Brian. How is that not suspicious!?

So I wanted to meet Brian, because it would be comforting for me to be around someone who was also close to Gabriel since it’s harder to lean on my friends shoulders for support when they didn’t even know who he was. But, Brian won’t let me meet him, supposedly because "it’s too hard on him", yet it’s 4 months later! He also uses the excuse that he’s never home because of his job and is always on the road, yet there’s always a few points in time where he is home. And for someone who talks to me almost everyday for 4 months, it’s weird that he doesn’t want me to meet him.

He also lived on his own. AND, his cell kept ringing for WEEKS after he passed away. I kept calling in hopes a loved one would answer, but nobody ever did, How can a phone last that long, even on standby!? And it was an iPhone at that and I hear the battery doesn’t last THAT long on those. After about a month or a month 1/2, his phone did get turned off.

I’m really starting to think that Gabriel and Brian might be the same person, but what do you all think? Please let me know! This is a huge mystery in my life and it’s really bothering me, so please give me some opinions. Thanks!

Sorry for all the reading, but I had to get it all out there.
And now just the other day I told Brian that I wanted him to take a picture of himself pointing to his nose with his middle finger and sticking his tongue out, so that I would be sure that the person in the pictures I’ve seen really is Brian and not some random picture stolen from someones myspace.

And he refused to do such a request, and said that if I didn’t trust him maybe he shouldn’t be talking to me.

Well this story does sound very suspicious, even though sometimes cancer can make some people get very sick in a very short period of time , and some people do leave the state for better cancer treatment there is nothing special about the cancer centers in Oklahoma. They are no Saint Jude or John Hopkins. It sounds like he really has something to hide. Gabriel and Brian are probably the same person. Gabriel may not be his real name either, there is business in VA called Gabriel and Paxton. I would be more suspicious of the ‘two’. Its probably some scam or someone who is bored with their life