Hollywood Car Accident Lawyer

A car crash in Hollywood rarely happens on an empty street. You might be hit while creeping up Highland Avenue behind a tour bus, sideswiped on Sunset by a driver reading a map app, or rear-ended at a light on Santa Monica Boulevard. Moe Abdallah Law, P.C. represents people hurt in car accidents across Los Angeles, and Moe answers Hollywood calls himself. This page covers what is different about a Hollywood car crash: the streets, the LAPD division that writes your report, the hospital near Vermont and Fountain, the arguments adjusters make, and the deadlines that apply when the other vehicle belongs to the city. The first consultation is free, Moe is reachable day or night, and you pay no fee unless he wins your case. Se habla español.

Highland, Sunset, and Santa Monica Boulevard: where Hollywood drivers collide

Most Hollywood car crashes happen where cross traffic meets a crowd. Highland Avenue, Vine Street, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Western Avenue run north and south, while Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, and Fountain Avenue run east and west. The risks on these streets are familiar: left turns across oncoming traffic, drivers pulling out of parking structures, and cars stopping short for pedestrians. On the US-101 Hollywood Freeway, stop-and-go traffic sets up rear-end crashes, and a careless merge at a ramp can turn into a sideswipe. Two city facts help here. LADOT started its Hollywood Safety and Mobility Project in August 2023 because of the number of people killed or severely injured on Hollywood Boulevard between Gower Street and Lyman Place, and the next phase reaches along Sunset from Lyman Place to Fountain Avenue. We have not found a published crash count for these blocks, so we do not cite one. What you can use is simpler: a street the city is redesigning is a street where fault gets argued hard. If you were hit on one of these roads, write down the block, the direction you were traveling, and the signal phase while it is fresh.

Your LAPD report, the SR-1, and what to save in the first days

Crashes here fall under the LAPD Hollywood Division, at 1358 N. Wilcox Avenue, phone 213-972-2971. The Hollywood station's page sends traffic matters to West Traffic Division, and it has an Obtain a Traffic Collision Report link. Ask the officer for the report number before you leave the scene. Next, mind the DMV. If anyone was hurt, or damage to any one person's property passed $1,000, you must file an SR-1 within 10 days (Vehicle Code § 16000), and an attorney can file it for you. Then save what disappears. Photograph the cars, the debris, and the road before tow trucks clear it. Storefront cameras, parking-structure systems, and dash cams in nearby cars may have caught the crash, and many businesses overwrite footage within days. Moe sends preservation letters quickly. Keep your phone's location history, any rideshare receipt if you were in an Uber or Lyft, and the names of anyone who stopped. Do not give a recorded statement to the other driver's insurer before you talk with Moe. Adjusters sound friendly, and they save every word.

Hollywood Presbyterian and getting your injuries documented

CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, 1300 N. Vermont Avenue, has a 24/7 emergency department at Vermont and Fountain. Paramedics decide where an ambulance goes based on your injuries, and we have not verified a trauma designation for this hospital, so follow the crew. Your claim needs someone to write down what hurts. Whiplash, concussion, back and neck strain, shoulder tears from seat belts, and broken wrists from gripping a wheel often show up hours or days after the crash. Adrenaline hides them. See a doctor the same day or the next, tell them it was a car crash, and list every symptom, even the ones that seem small. Then follow through. If you skip appointments, the insurer will say you healed, and if you wait three weeks to see anyone, it will say something else caused your pain. Moe pulls your bills and records into one picture of what the crash cost you: treatment to date, future care, missed work, and the way the injury changed your daily life. If you are uninsured, say so early, because Moe handled a case for an uninsured client with a broken sternum that covered hospital bills and future treatment. Past results do not predict a similar outcome.

Low limits, fault games, and what the adjuster is really doing

California's minimum auto liability limits are $30,000 per person and $60,000 per accident for policies issued or renewed since January 1, 2025, with $15,000 for property damage. A serious injury can pass that number in a single hospital stay. Plenty of drivers carry only the minimum, and some carry nothing. Your Hollywood Division report should list the other driver's insurer, so Moe checks those limits early. That makes your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage matter. Moe once turned an at-fault insurer's $900 offer into $75,000 total by getting the at-fault limit and then bringing a UIM claim. Past results do not predict a similar outcome. Fault is the other tool adjusters reach for. California follows pure comparative negligence, so you can recover even if you were partly to blame, but your award shrinks by your percentage (Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804). Expect arguments that you braked too hard, changed lanes too late, or should have seen the car coming. Moe has fought fake witnesses before. In a red-light T-bone case, the other driver lined up false witnesses, and Moe found the real ones. If you were not insured yourself, Proposition 213 can bar pain and suffering damages, so tell Moe the truth on day one.

When the other vehicle belongs to the city, and where the case is heard

Not every Hollywood car crash is driver against driver. A city sanitation truck, a Metro or DASH bus, or a poorly maintained street can put a public entity on the other side. For those cases, you must present a written claim within six months of the crash (Government Code § 911.2), not two years. For the City of Los Angeles, the claim goes to the Office of the City Clerk, online, by mail, or in person at 200 North Spring Street, Room 395. After a written denial you generally have six months to file suit (Government Code § 945.6). Against a private driver, the deadline is two years (Code of Civil Procedure § 335.1), and three years for vehicle damage (Code of Civil Procedure § 338). Los Angeles County cases are heard by the LA Superior Court. The Stanley Mosk Courthouse is at 111 North Hill Street, though which courthouse hears a Hollywood injury case depends on the filing, so we confirm that before filing. Ask Moe which courthouse fits your case before anything is filed, because filing in the wrong place costs time.

How Moe handles a Hollywood car accident case

No case manager takes your file. Moe takes your call, reviews the report, and tells you honestly whether you have a claim and what it might take. He keeps you updated by call and text, and you pay nothing unless he wins. His office at 527 W 7th St, Suite 924, is downtown, but you can start by phone any time of day. Moe handles car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle, Uber and Lyft, bus, and hit-and-run cases, plus uninsured and underinsured claims, so if the crash turns out bigger than it looked, you do not start over with a new firm. His past results include $30,000 policy limits on several cases, including a head-on crash with femur and ankle fractures and a highway rear-end where the client had a pre-existing condition aggravated by the crash, and a $25,000 policy limit plus a reimbursed totaled car after a freeway cut-off. Past results do not predict a similar outcome. The free review is the first step. Call (323) 716-1992.

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