Stockton Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyer

Stockton is home to more than 300,000 people and has several life-blood highways passing through it, including State Route 99, State Route 4, and Interstate 5. These highways allow millions of vehicles every day to travel up and down the west coast and from Stockton to San Francisco and back. With so many cars on the road, accidents are inevitable. 

Call our law firm today to schedule a free consultation with one of our Stockton personal injury attorneys to discuss your potential claim.

FVAccording to the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), there were 6,220 total fatal and injury crashes in San Joaquin County in 2018. That same year, there were 2,037 traumatic injury and fatal accidents in Stockton. Of that number, 161 involved pedestrians, 112 involved bicyclists, and 50 involved motorcycle riders. Some of these accidents resulted from:

• 389 speeding
• 305 hit and runs
• 146 drunk driving

You may wonder where most of the serious injury and fatal car accidents occurred. The following list includes the most dangerous intersections in Stockton:

• Airport Way and Hazelton Avenue
• Center Street and Harding Way
• Da Vinci Drive and March Lane
• El Dorado Street and March Lane
• Hammer Lane and West Lane
• Kelley Drive and Hammer Lane
• March Lane and West Lane
• Pershing Avenue and March Lane
• Tam O'Shanter Drive and Hammer Lane
• Washington St and Hunter Street

• Amputations
• Bone fractures
• Chest trauma
• Degloving injuries
• Eye injuries
• Internal trauma
• Road rash
• Spinal cord injuries
• Traumatic brain injuries
• Wrongful death

Our legal team will work for you and your case to get the best outcome possible. Our firm is known as the "personal" personal injury law firm because we take the time to get to know you, your background, your hopes, and your dreams. We take satisfaction in helping you and your family find positives in what could otherwise be a medical, emotional, and economic disaster. That said, here is more information about us.

• We have been only handling personal injury cases since 1982
• We believe in a holistic approach to personal injury cases.
• Our staff is like a family here.
• Our firm’s founder and injury attorney, Ed Smith, is a member of Consumer Attorney's of California, the Million Dollar Advocates, the Brain Injury Association of California as well as the Capital City Trial Lawyers Association.
• You can see our ratings on Yelp and Avvo.
• Injury lawyer, Ed Smith, has written several books on personal injury law including The Ultimate California Auto Injury Handbook and The California Motorcycle Accident Handbook.
• Here are some of our past verdicts and settlements.
• To see all of our testimonials, please go to our testimonials page.

Stockton has always had a deep resonance in my heart. When I attended Law School, I worked almost full time at my first legal job as a law clerk at the Stockton County Counsel's Office.

I was lucky to have some great attorney's there who took me under their wing and taught me Trial Law. Mike Garrison, who later became a San Joaquin County judge taught me much. Pat Friedrich was another great Stockton Lawyer who tutored me.

I worked several years in the San Joaquin County Counsel's Office and learned the ins and outs of San Joaquin County from experts. That knowledge has served me well as my legal career progressed.

I've worked many cases in Stockton with the world-famous mediator, Dan Quinn. I've handled every kind of personal injury case imaginable in San Joaquin County, from cases involving drunken boaters in the Delta to chain collisions in the fog on I5.

I  also fell in love with a Stockton girl who forever changed my life. I really do love Stockton and Stocktonians.

I love to eat at the Market Tavern or the Abby Trappist Pub and drive down to visit often. Yes, my office is located in Sacramento some 45 minutes away but if you come up here and tell me about your case. I'll give you straight advice that other, less experienced lawyers can't offer, and I'd never invite you to visit me up here without buying you lunch! I like to talk while I eat, that's how I learned to do it in Brooklyn.