John Roach, Esq. | August 8, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
If you were hurt in a car accident in Concord, California law gives you two years to bring a claim — but the evidence that wins your case is gone within days, and the deadline drops to six months if a government entity is involved…. read more
John Roach, Esq. | August 5, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Rideshare is woven into daily life in San Francisco — and so are rideshare crashes. When you are hurt in an Uber or Lyft, the most important facts about your case are two things most riders have never heard of. First, which insurance applies depends… read more
John Roach, Esq. | August 3, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
When school starts back up across San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in mid-August, the streets around every campus change overnight. Crosswalks fill with children, school buses make frequent stops, and pickup and dropoff lines clog quiet residential blocks twice a day. It is one of… read more
John Roach, Esq. | August 1, 2026 | Car Accidents
There’s no breathalyzer for exhaustion. That single fact shapes everything about drowsy driving cases: the driver who drifted across the center line at 5 a.m. tells the officer he “just lost control.” No test, no citation, no admission. The police report says “unknown causes.” And… read more
John Roach, Esq. | July 22, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Riders in San Francisco face a double injustice. First, when a careless driver hits them, the lack of a steel cage means the injuries are far more severe than they would be in a car. Second, they then have to overcome a stubborn bias —… read more
John Roach, Esq. | July 20, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
More than a quarter of a million vehicles cross the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge every day, funneling through tunnels, tight merges, and some of the most congested traffic in the region. Most crashes there look like ordinary collisions — one driver hits another. But the… read more
John Roach, Esq. | July 17, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
You had the green. You were going straight through the intersection, doing everything right — and a driver coming the other way turned left directly across your path. In the half-second before impact, there was nowhere to go. If that’s your story, you’re describing the… read more
John Roach, Esq. | July 13, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Delivery vehicles have taken over San Francisco’s streets. Amazon vans double-park in the Valencia Street bike lanes, UPS trucks back across crosswalks in SoMa alleys, and FedEx drivers race quotas up hills with blind crests. When one of them causes a crash, the injury is… read more
John Roach, Esq. | July 11, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
On June 25, 2026, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 623 — the Fair Medical Billing & Rideshare Safety Act — into law as Chapter 17 of the Statutes of 2026. If you ride in, drive for, or share the road with Uber and Lyft vehicles… read more
John Roach, Esq. | July 8, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Almost everyone knows the feeling: the light turns green, the car ahead does not move, and the driver’s head is tilted down at a phone in their lap. Distracted driving is now one of the most common causes of crashes in San Francisco — and… read more