Personal Injury Lawyer in Torrance

If a crash on Hawthorne Boulevard, Pacific Coast Highway or a side street near Del Amo sent you to the hospital, an adjuster may be calling before you have slept. That is the moment to talk to a Torrance personal injury lawyer. Moe Abdallah Law, P.C. is a Los Angeles motor-vehicle injury firm. Attorney Moe Abdallah handles Torrance cases himself, by call and text. We take crash cases only, so our time goes to evidence, medical records and the insurer's math. This page is a local guide. You will see how crashes happen here, who writes your report, which hospitals treat you, where your case is heard and which deadlines can end a claim. Call (323) 716-1992 any hour. The consultation is free, and we speak Spanish. You do not need every answer before you call.

How we help injured people in Torrance

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

What Torrance's crash numbers show

Torrance is a South Bay city of about 147,000 people with its own police department, and its roads produce steady injury crashes. The California Office of Traffic Safety ranked it 32nd of 62 similar-size cities in 2023 for fatal and injury victims, with 647 people hurt or killed. A lower number means worse. That year it counted 43 pedestrian victims, 36 bicyclist victims and 29 motorcyclist victims. It also recorded 70 speed-related collisions, 50 alcohol-involved victims and 123 DUI arrests. In 2022, the state tallied 620 fatal and injury victims, 33 pedestrians, 44 bicyclists and 31 motorcyclists. The city does not publish a Vision Zero list of worst intersections that we could find, so we will not invent one. The numbers still tell you something. Hundreds of people are hurt in Torrance crashes each year, many on foot, on a bike or on a motorcycle. Insurers shave claims when a victim has no one pushing back. A claim built from photos, records and a clear timeline gets treated differently from a phone call and a guess.

The boulevards and freeways where injury cases begin

Hawthorne Boulevard, which is State Route 107, carries about 70,000 vehicle trips a day, according to the city, as the gateway to Del Amo Fashion Center. Crenshaw Boulevard, Sepulveda Boulevard, Western Avenue, Torrance Boulevard, Artesia Boulevard and Del Amo Boulevard are the other long surface routes, and Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1, crosses the city too. Interstate 405 and Interstate 110 run through or beside town, and State Route 91 is close. Local news shows how bad a crash on these roads can get. In April 2025, ABC7 reported that a pedestrian was struck and killed in a multi-vehicle hit-and-run on Pacific Coast Highway near Ocean Avenue, and one person was arrested for DUI. A law-firm news page citing Torrance PD described a pedestrian killed on Crenshaw near 235th Street in May 2025. Those were single incidents, not a ranking of dangerous roads. For your claim, the exact spot matters. It tells us who owns the road, which camera may have filmed the crash and which agency wrote the report.

Police reports, city claims and who to notify

Torrance Police Department, at 3300 Civic Center Dr., writes reports for crashes inside city limits. Request yours online through LexisNexis eCrash, and allow at least 15 days after the crash. A convenience fee applies. You can also mail or bring a request form, a copy of photo ID and an $18 check or money order to the Records Division, whose number is (310) 618-5529. Reports go to drivers, owners, injured parties and their representatives. If anyone was hurt or property damage topped $1,000, a driver must file an SR-1 with the DMV within 10 days. If a city vehicle, a city bus or a defect in a city road played a part, you need a written government claim within six months of the crash (Government Code section 911.2). The City of Torrance takes claims only by mail or in person at the City Clerk's Office, 3031 Torrance Boulevard. Email and fax do not count. The city says Caltrans, not the city, maintains Pacific Coast Highway, Western Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard north of PCH, so a crash there may call for a claim to the state. We work out the right agency first.

Hospitals near Torrance and building your medical proof

Where you go after a crash shapes the record behind your claim. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center sits on West Carson Street in West Carson, just outside Torrance city limits, and the county's own health services page describes its hospitals as among the top providers of emergency and trauma care in Los Angeles County. Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance, at 4101 Torrance Boulevard, runs a 24 hour emergency department, is a Paramedic Base Station and is a Comprehensive Stroke Center. Torrance Memorial Medical Center, at 3330 Lomita Boulevard, treats emergencies too. Paramedics choose the facility based on your condition. Tell every provider how the crash happened, point to every sore spot and keep your discharge papers. Neck and back pain, concussions and fractures often show their full extent over days or weeks. Gaps in treatment give the insurer a reason to say you recovered. We gather bills, records and your own account of how the injury changed work and home life. Then we present them as one story, not a stack of paper.

Torrance Transit, Metro buses and public vehicles

Torrance runs its own bus system. Torrance Transit operates lines 1, 2, 3, R3, 4X, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 13, and its hub is the Mary K. Giordano Regional Transit Center at 465 Crenshaw Boulevard. LA Metro buses and LADOT connect to the system. A city bus or a Metro bus is a public vehicle, so the claim rules change. The operator owes riders the high duty that California puts on common carriers, and a claim against a public entity needs a written government claim within six months, followed by suit within six months of a written rejection (Government Code sections 911.2 and 945.6). Metro has been planning a light-rail extension toward the Torrance transit center that has not opened, and the Metro Board advanced the Hawthorne Boulevard option on January 22, 2026, which the city opposed. That project could shift traffic patterns. It does not change your deadlines. If a bus, a city truck or a police vehicle hit you, call us before you talk to the agency's claims adjuster. Save your ticket or fare card, note the bus number and ask for video.

The crash types we handle in Torrance

Car crashes are the most common case. Rear-ends and left turns on Hawthorne and Crenshaw hurt many people, and so do merges near Interstate 405. Truck crashes need quick preservation of driver logs and engine data. Motorcycle riders face left-turning drivers who say they never saw the bike, and insurers argue they were speeding. Pedestrian and bicycle cases turn on crosswalks, passing distance and what the driver was looking at. Rideshare cases can involve a company's $1 million liability coverage while a trip is active, though the rules depend on what the app was doing. Hit-and-run and uninsured driver cases may be paid by your own uninsured motorist coverage. Torrance logged only 7 hit-and-run collisions in the 2023 OTS rankings, the lowest count in its group, but a fleeing driver still leaves you with real bills. Drunk-driving cases can add punitive damages, and Torrance had 123 DUI arrests that year. We also handle wrongful death claims from crashes, where the spouse, children and others named in Code of Civil Procedure section 377.60 may bring the claim. We take motor-vehicle injury cases only. We do not handle dog bites, slip-and-falls or medical malpractice.

Courts, deadlines and how Moe runs your case

The Torrance Courthouse at 825 Maple Ave serves much of the South Bay, but unlimited civil injury cases can be assigned to a downtown courthouse, so we confirm the right court with the Filing Court Locator before filing. You generally have two years to sue a driver or other private party (Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1). California uses pure comparative negligence, so being partly at fault reduces your award and does not end it (Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804). Minimum liability limits are only $30,000 per person and $60,000 per accident, so we also look at your uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. Moe answers calls himself and updates you by call and text. He collects video, vehicle data and witnesses fast. He handles every insurer contact. Past results include $105,000 for an uninsured client with a broken sternum and $75,000 after an insurer offered $900. Past results do not predict a similar outcome. You pay nothing unless Moe wins, the review is free, and Se habla español.

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