Personal Injury Lawyer San Pedro

San Pedro is a Harbor-area neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. It sits at the Port of Los Angeles, and the Harbor Freeway ends here at Gaffey Street. If a crash on Gaffey Street, Pacific Avenue or Harbor Boulevard left you hurt, you probably have an adjuster calling and a stack of bills arriving. Moe Abdallah Law, P.C. is a Los Angeles firm that takes one kind of case: people physically injured, or families who lost someone, in motor-vehicle crashes. We do not take workplace injury, product, premises or property-damage-only claims. Attorney Moe Abdallah handles each case personally and keeps clients updated by call and text. Use this page as a local guide when you search for a San Pedro personal injury lawyer. It covers the streets, the police station, the hospital, the courthouse and the deadlines. Call (323) 716-1992 any hour. The consultation is free, and we speak Spanish.

How we help injured people in San Pedro

We handle every motor-vehicle injury case type for San Pedro residents, dealing with the insurers directly while you focus on recovery.

San Pedro is a neighborhood, so Los Angeles agencies run your claim

San Pedro is not its own city. It sits inside the City of Los Angeles, so Los Angeles departments handle most of what follows a crash here. LAPD's Harbor Community Police Station covers the area. The station also serves Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, Terminal Island and Wilmington, and LAPD describes that Harbor Area as roughly 171,000 residents over 27 square miles. We could not confirm a San Pedro-only population, so we will not guess one. The ZIP codes are 90731 and 90732, and locals talk about Downtown San Pedro and South Shores. Why does this matter to you? A city-run system means city paperwork. LAPD writes the crash report. A claim about a city street or a city bus goes to the Los Angeles City Clerk, and the City Attorney's Claims Division picks it up from there. A crash between two private drivers follows the usual insurance path instead. Moe sorts out which path you are on during the first call, because a wrong guess can cost you months. A public claim has a six-month clock. A private lawsuit has two years. We work out which one applies to you before anything else.

The streets and ramps where San Pedro injury cases begin

The Harbor Freeway, Interstate 110, ends at Gaffey Street in San Pedro. State Route 47, the Vincent Thomas Bridge route, starts at I-110 and has an interchange at Harbor Boulevard. Those two roads push drivers onto a small set of surface streets: Gaffey Street, Pacific Avenue, Grand Avenue, Harbor Boulevard, 7th Street, 1st Street, Centre Street and John S. Gibson Boulevard. A 2023 transportation study in the One San Pedro Specific Plan Draft EIR/EIS puts Gaffey Street, a stretch of Pacific Avenue from O'Farrell Street to 2nd Street, and part of Grand Avenue south of O'Farrell Street on LADOT's Vision Zero High Injury Network. LADOT has updated that network since, so check the current map before you lean on a single block. When LADOT first drew the network from 2009 to 2013 crash data, it found that only 6 percent of Los Angeles street miles carried nearly 70 percent of deaths and severe injuries to people walking. After a later update, LADOT put the network's share of walking and biking deaths and severe injuries at about 64 percent. Those are citywide figures. We cite them for context, not as San Pedro statistics. For your claim, the exact intersection is what counts. It tells us who owns the road, who may have a camera and which agency wrote the report.

Getting your LAPD Harbor report and handling the first days

The Harbor Community Police Station is at 2175 John S. Gibson Blvd., San Pedro, CA 90731, phone 310-726-7700. Victims and their representatives can request a collision report online through LAPD's LexisNexis link or by mail. LAPD asks you to wait at least 45 days after the crash before you request online. Reports involving an arrest, a death or a juvenile, and older reports dated before February 1, 2016, must go by mail. Send the form and a $19 check or money order payable to LAPD to the Records and Identification Division, Document Processing Unit, P.O. Box 30158, Los Angeles, CA 90030. The status line is (213) 486-8130. You can also ask us to handle it. Separately, a driver must file an SR-1 with the DMV within 10 days if anyone was hurt or damage to any one person's property topped $1,000 (Vehicle Code section 16000). Photograph the scene. Save the other driver's insurance details. Keep your discharge papers. And do not give the other insurer a recorded statement before you talk to a lawyer.

Treatment in San Pedro and building the medical record

Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro is at 1300 W. 7th St., San Pedro, CA 90732. We have not verified a trauma designation for that campus, so we will not call it a trauma center. Paramedics pick the hospital based on your condition, and a serious injury may go elsewhere. Your medical record is what carries the case. Tell every provider how the crash happened and mention each sore spot, even the small ones. Neck and back pain, concussions and fractures often show their full weight over days or weeks. A gap in treatment gives an insurer room to say you recovered. We gather the bills, the imaging and your own account of what changed at work and at home, then lay them out as one clear story. A first offer that arrives before your treatment ends is rarely a full one. Keep every receipt and a short log of missed work.

Buses, city vehicles and claims against a public agency

San Pedro riders use LA Metro's J Line (Line 950 trips run to San Pedro), Metro Local Lines 205 and 246, LADOT DASH San Pedro, LADOT Commuter Express 142 to Long Beach, and Palos Verdes Peninsula Transit lines 225 and 226. Say a city vehicle, a DASH or Commuter Express bus, or a dangerous road condition on a city street played a part in your crash. You must then present a written Claim for Damages to the City of Los Angeles within six months (Government Code section 911.2). File online at claims.lacity.org, mail a signed form to the Office of the City Clerk, 200 N. Spring St., Room 395, Los Angeles, CA 90012, or hand it in at Room 395. The Clerk does not accept email or fax. If the city rejects the claim in writing, you generally have six months from that notice to sue (Government Code section 945.6). We have not researched the claim process for Metro buses, so we confirm the right agency before anything is filed. A missed deadline can end the case, though a late-claim application is sometimes possible within one year (Government Code section 911.4).

The crashes we handle for San Pedro drivers, riders and walkers

Moe takes car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle, Uber and Lyft, bus, hit-and-run, drunk-driving and uninsured-motorist crashes, plus wrongful death and brain injury that come from a crash. Near the port, truck crashes need their own evidence, such as the driver's logs and the truck's recorder data, and we ask for them early. For people on foot, CBS Los Angeles reported in December 2022 that a garbage truck struck and killed a man in his 70s, reportedly in a crosswalk at Pacific Avenue and 13th Street. That was one incident, not a ranking. If a driver fled and cannot be identified, your own uninsured-motorist coverage may pay for your injuries, but only if the hit-and-run car made physical contact, the crash was reported to police within 24 hours, and you give your insurer a sworn statement within 30 days (Insurance Code section 11580.2(b)). In one past matter, Moe recovered a $100,000 policy-limit UM settlement for a woman rear-ended by a driver who fled. Every case is different, and past results do not promise a similar outcome. California follows pure comparative negligence, so you can recover even if you were partly at fault, though your award shrinks by your share (Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804). California's minimum bodily injury limits are $30,000 per person and $60,000 per accident on policies issued or renewed since January 1, 2025 (Vehicle Code section 16056), so your own coverage can matter a lot.

Courts, deadlines and how Moe runs your San Pedro case

The Los Angeles County Superior Court South District has a San Pedro Courthouse at 505 S. Centre St., San Pedro, CA 90731, which the county says covers cases arising in San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, Long Beach and nearby areas. We have not confirmed whether an unlimited-civil injury case is heard there or assigned elsewhere, so we check before we file. You have two years from the crash to sue a private driver for injury (Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1), and three years for vehicle damage (section 338). Uninsured-motorist claims have their own two-year rule: within two years you must sue the uninsured driver, reach agreement with your insurer, or start arbitration by certified mail (Insurance Code section 11580.2(i)). Moe works on contingency, so you pay no fee unless he wins. He moves fast on evidence and keeps you updated by call and text. He also tells you plainly what a claim is worth and what it is not. Free consultations run 24 hours a day at (323) 716-1992. Our office is at 527 W 7th St, Ste 924, Los Angeles, CA 90014, but you do not need to come downtown to start.

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