$840k Recovery for Hit-and-Run Incident

Our client was traveling northbound on Hoover Street in Los Angeles, California. At the same time, the defendant was operating a vehicle directly behind our client’s vehicle at a high rate of speed. Our client slowed down and stopped for the traffic ahead when the defendant driver failed to yield to the stopped vehicles and slammed into the rear of our client’s vehicle.

The force of the impact pushed our client’s car into the rear of another vehicle in the front. As a result, the airbags of our client’s vehicle were deployed. The defendant driver fled from the scene on foot without exchanging information. The police officer on the scene found the defendant driver at fault for the collision in violation of California Vehicle Code Section 22350 VC for driving at an unsafe speed. As a result of this collision, our client’s vehicle sustained extensive rear-end damage.