Fontana Car Accident Lawyer

Fontana Car Accident Lawyer

Fontana Car Accident Lawyer Snapshot

• Fontana is policed by the Fontana Police Department, a standalone municipal police department under Chief Michael Dorsey at 17005 Upland Avenue, Fontana, CA 92335, with non-emergency dispatch at (909) 350-7740 – distinct from the contract-sheriff arrangements used in surrounding San Bernardino County cities and the only law-enforcement agency that responds to surface-street collisions inside Fontana city limits.
• Fontana freeway collisions on I-10 (San Bernardino Freeway), I-15, and I-210 (Foothill Freeway) are investigated by CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area, office (855), at 9530 Pittsburg Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730-6014, dispatched at (909) 980-3994, covering more than 250 square miles across Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Mount Baldy, and San Antonio Heights.
• Effective December 2023, San Bernardino Superior Court relocated all general civil personal-injury filings for this region from the San Bernardino Justice Center to the Civil Division at the Rancho Cucamonga District, 8303 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 – the Fontana Courthouse at 17780 Arrow Boulevard remains open but handles only traffic, misdemeanor, felony, and juvenile matters, not general civil PI.
• Fontana serious-trauma victims start at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center at 9961 Sierra Avenue (24/7 Basic ER, 450 acute-care beds, NOT a designated trauma center) and transfer to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Level I Trauma Center at 400 North Pepper Avenue in Colton (15 miles east via I-10, upgraded from Level II to Level I in 2022) or to Loma Linda University Medical Center Adult and Pediatric Level I Trauma Center (about 25 miles east via I-10) for polytrauma, multiple-system injury, pediatric critical care, and burn cases.
• Yaghmai Law Firm represents Fontana clients on the same contingency framework used across our 58 active California city pages – no fee unless we recover – and we travel to North Fontana, Sierra Lakes, Hunter’s Ridge, South Fontana, Jurupa Hills, Bloomington, and the Slover Avenue warehouse corridor at no additional cost. We communicate with Fontana clients in English, French, Farsi, and through certified Spanish-language interpreters.

Fontana sits in the western San Bernardino Valley, roughly 46 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, incorporated in 1952, with a population in the 214,000 to 218,000 range as of the most recent Census Bureau estimates. The city is bisected east-west by I-10 (the San Bernardino Freeway) along its south side and by I-210 (the Foothill Freeway) along its north side, bracketed west by I-15 through neighboring Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga, and threaded by historic Foothill Boulevard (the former SR-66 alignment – state-route status was relinquished to local jurisdictions through Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, and Claremont but the Route 66 signage and street grid remain). Sierra Avenue is the city’s primary north-south commercial spine, Citrus Avenue serves east Fontana, Cherry Avenue serves the west, and the Slover Avenue and Valley Boulevard corridors form the spine of the Fontana industrial and warehouse district that helps anchor the Inland Empire as the largest warehouse-distribution region in the United States.

Almost every Fontana serious-injury case touches the same five institutions: the Fontana Police Department patrol unit responding to a surface-street collision, CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area (855) writing the 555 collision report on any freeway crash on I-10, I-15, or I-210, Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center handling initial emergency intake or transferring polytrauma patients out to Arrowhead Regional or Loma Linda University, the San Bernardino County Coroner documenting any fatality, and the Civil Division at the Rancho Cucamonga District accepting your eventual complaint. Fontana’s heavy commercial-truck volume on Slover Avenue, Valley Boulevard, Jurupa Avenue, and the I-10 and I-15 corridors adds a separate FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) evidence layer to most serious crashes – driver qualification files, hours-of-service logs under 49 CFR Part 395, and pre-trip inspection reports under 49 CFR Part 396 – that has to be preserved through a spoliation letter within the first 30 to 60 days.

Recent CHP-Reported Incidents in Fontana

Recent California Highway Patrol incidents inside the Fontana geographic bounding box:

Types of Fontana Car Accident Cases We Handle

The mix of car-crash and truck-crash cases that come out of Fontana is shaped by three geographic facts: I-10 through south Fontana carries roughly 200,000 to 230,000 vehicles per day across the Sierra Avenue, Citrus Avenue, and Cherry Avenue interchanges; I-210 across north Fontana carries 110,000 to 140,000 vehicles per day and was the site of the January 14, 2025 wrong-way crash near Citrus Avenue that killed four members of the Plasencia family; and the Slover Avenue and Valley Boulevard warehouse corridors generate concentrated commercial-truck volume that flows from the Amazon, Target, FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Smart and Final fulfillment centers onto the I-10 and I-15 freeway network. The six case categories below are the ones our intake team sees most often from Fontana clients.

I-10 San Bernardino Freeway crashes through Fontana between Citrus Avenue and Etiwanda Avenue

The I-10 mainline through Fontana is the highest-volume single corridor for crash filings in the city. The Sierra Avenue, Cherry Avenue, Citrus Avenue, and Etiwanda Avenue interchanges generate concentrated rear-end and sideswipe volume as commuter traffic from the Inland Empire converges on the Los Angeles County line. The 6:52 p.m. May 19, 2025 fatal multi-vehicle crash on westbound I-10 near the Sierra Avenue off-ramp – a Toyota Camry, a trailer, and a Honda Odyssey, with one Honda occupant pronounced dead at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center after extrication – illustrates the recurring fact pattern: late-afternoon westbound congestion, mixed passenger-truck flow, and a single high-energy initiating event that cascades into a multi-vehicle pileup. CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area (855) generates the 555 collision file and the multidisciplinary accident-investigation reconstruction in fatal cases. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration discoverable-evidence package becomes essential the moment a commercial vehicle is involved.

I-210 Foothill Freeway crashes through north Fontana including wrong-way and high-speed cases

I-210 across north Fontana is the corridor that produced the January 14, 2025 wrong-way crash near the Citrus Avenue exit – a 23-year-old Fontana man driving a Ford in the wrong direction at speeds reported up to 100 miles per hour struck a Lexus carrying the Plasencia family, killing the wrong-way driver, Lexus driver Jose Plasencia (43, Highland), his 16-year-old daughter Mia Plasencia at the scene, and his 3-year-old son Ivan Plasencia who died on January 19 from his injuries, with a 5-year-old girl and a 42-year-old woman also seriously injured. Wrong-way freeway collisions, high-speed loss-of-control crashes between Sierra Avenue and Citrus Avenue, and big-rig rollovers like the January 8, 2025 fatal big-rig overturn on westbound I-210 are the recurring CHP Rancho Cucamonga (855) file types on this corridor.

Slover Avenue, Valley Boulevard, Jurupa Avenue, and the Fontana warehouse-corridor commercial-truck crashes

Fontana sits inside the Inland Empire warehouse-distribution region, which the industrial-real-estate industry tracks at roughly 717 million square feet of inventory across the Riverside-San Bernardino metro – the largest warehouse market in the United States. The Fontana submarket alone holds about 23 million square feet of industrial inventory, and the City of Fontana has approved more than 70 new warehouses since 2010 covering close to 860 acres. The Amazon CapRock site at 3945 Lytle Creek Road, the Amazon I-15 Logistics Center, and Target, FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Smart and Final fulfillment centers feed an FMCSA-regulated commercial-truck flow onto Slover Avenue, Valley Boulevard, Jurupa Avenue, Cherry Avenue, Citrus Avenue, and the I-10 and I-15 ramps. When a passenger vehicle is struck by a commercial truck in Fontana, the driver qualification file (49 CFR Part 391), hours-of-service logs (49 CFR Part 395), pre-trip inspection records (49 CFR Part 396), drug and alcohol testing records (49 CFR Part 382), and the carrier’s safety-rating record on the FMCSA SAFER website become the core evidence package, and all of it has to be preserved through a written spoliation letter within the first 30 to 60 days.

I-15 crashes through west Fontana between Sierra Avenue and Foothill Boulevard

I-15 runs north-south through Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga immediately west of Fontana, with the Sierra Avenue interchange forming the primary connection between Fontana surface streets and the I-15 mainline. The September 2025 motorcyclist fatality on northbound I-15 just south of Sierra Avenue – all northbound lanes shut down while CHP and San Bernardino County Fire worked the scene – is the recurring single-vehicle motorcycle fact pattern on this corridor. CHP Rancho Cucamonga (855) is the investigating office, and the freeway-fatality MAIT (multidisciplinary accident investigation team) file generally takes 6 to 12 months to release.

Sierra Avenue, Foothill Boulevard, and Fontana surface-street pedestrian and bicycle crashes

Sierra Avenue is the primary north-south commercial spine of Fontana, running from south of I-10 across Valley Boulevard, Foothill Boulevard (the historic Route 66 alignment), Baseline Avenue, and the Sierra Lakes residential corridor to the I-210 interchange. Foothill Boulevard remains the east-west surface spine across the city even though state-route status as SR-66 was relinquished. Pedestrian-struck-in-crosswalk events on Sierra Avenue near the commercial-strip retail centers, bicycle crashes on Foothill Boulevard and Valley Boulevard, school-zone pedestrian incidents around A.B. Miller High School, Fontana High School, Henry J. Kaiser High School, and the Fontana Unified School District elementary schools, and parking-lot backing collisions at the Sierra Avenue retail centers are the recurring Fontana Police Department incident-report types. California Vehicle Code section 21950 (driver duty to yield to pedestrians in marked or unmarked crosswalks) and CVC 21955 as amended by AB 2147 effective January 1, 2023 (jaywalking requires imminent danger of collision to constitute a violation) govern fault allocation in these cases.

Wrongful death cases arising from Fontana crashes and incidents

When a Fontana crash produces a fatality, three parallel investigations begin: the CHP Rancho Cucamonga (855) Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team reconstructs the freeway scene, the Fontana Police Department Traffic Investigations unit handles any surface-street fatality, and the San Bernardino County Coroner Division at 175 South Lena Road in San Bernardino documents the autopsy and toxicology. Under California Code of Civil Procedure section 377.60, the standing classes for wrongful death are surviving spouse, registered domestic partner, children, and other heirs by intestate succession. Under CCP section 377.34 as amended effective January 1, 2026, plaintiffs in survival actions filed on or after that date can recover the decedent’s pre-death pain and suffering. The San Bernardino County Coroner autopsy report typically takes 90 to 120 days to release and the CHP MAIT freeway-fatality file takes 6 to 12 months, both of which run alongside the two-year CCP 335.1 personal-injury statute of limitations.

Fontana Crash Data Sources

Most catastrophic Fontana collision files draw from five overlapping evidence streams: (1) the Fontana Police Department incident report and any body-worn-camera footage from the responding patrol, requested through the FPD records unit at 17005 Upland Avenue (the Fontana PD non-emergency line is (909) 350-7740); (2) the CHP 555 collision investigation report from Rancho Cucamonga Area (855) for any freeway crash on I-10, I-15, or I-210, requested through CHP Records at 9530 Pittsburg Street, Rancho Cucamonga; (3) the San Bernardino County Coroner Division autopsy and toxicology in fatal cases; (4) Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center emergency department records (and trauma-transfer records to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center or Loma Linda University Medical Center for polytrauma), ambulance run sheets from American Medical Response or San Bernardino County Fire, and any subsequent trauma-center admission documentation; and (5) third-party records like Caltrans District 8 signal-timing logs and lane-closure records for the I-10, I-15, and I-210 corridors, City of Fontana Public Works traffic-control plans for any active surface-street work zone, FMCSA SAFER carrier-safety records on any commercial truck involved, and warehouse-fulfillment-center surveillance from the Amazon, Target, FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Smart and Final facilities along the Slover Avenue and Valley Boulevard corridors.

Why Fontana Car Accident Cases Need a Lawyer

The single biggest reason Fontana car-accident claims under-recover is the volume of agency handoffs between the time of the crash and the time the case is filed, compounded by the commercial-truck and warehouse-distribution evidence overlay that the Inland Empire logistics economy adds to almost every serious Fontana case. A Fontana surface-street collision touches a Fontana Police Department patrol unit; a Fontana freeway collision touches CHP Rancho Cucamonga (855); a polytrauma transport touches Kaiser Permanente Fontana for triage and Arrowhead Regional or Loma Linda University for trauma admission; a fatality touches the San Bernardino County Coroner Division; and the civil case eventually lands at the Civil Division at the Rancho Cucamonga District, 8303 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga – a venue change that became effective December 2023 and that still trips up filers who default to the older San Bernardino Justice Center address. Each agency operates on its own retention schedule: Fontana PD body-worn-camera footage is typically retained 90 days unless a preservation letter is sent, CHP MAIT reconstruction files take 6 to 12 months to release, Kaiser Permanente records require a specific HIPAA-compliant release, and FMCSA-discoverable carrier records on a commercial-truck defendant disappear unless a spoliation letter goes out within 30 to 60 days of the crash. Sending the right preservation letters to the right offices on the right calendar is the difference between a complete evidentiary record and a reconstructed one.

Compensation in Fontana Car Accident Cases

Fontana car-accident settlements and verdicts compensate clients for the full statutory categories California recognizes: past and future medical expenses (Kaiser Permanente Fontana emergency department, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Level I trauma admissions, Loma Linda University Medical Center adult and pediatric trauma admissions, follow-up orthopedic and neurology care at the Kaiser Fontana medical campus and the Arrowhead outpatient clinics, physical therapy, mental health treatment, and projected life-care needs); past and future lost earnings and lost earning capacity, including hours missed at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, the Amazon CapRock and I-15 Logistics Centers, the Target, FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Smart and Final fulfillment centers along Slover Avenue and Valley Boulevard, the Fontana Unified School District, the City of Fontana, the County of San Bernardino, and the broader Inland Empire logistics workforce that drives much of the regional economy; pain, suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and loss of consortium under California’s pure comparative fault rule from Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804; and, in fatality cases, the wrongful death and survival recovery categories under CCP 377.60 (heirs’ loss-of-relationship damages) and CCP 377.34 as amended effective January 1, 2026 (pre-death pain and suffering recoverable in survival actions filed on or after that date). San Bernardino County juries historically value pain-and-suffering damages on the conservative side of Southern California ranges – lower than Los Angeles County but comparable to Riverside and Kern counties – which makes the substantive medical, wage, and life-care evidence package especially load-bearing in any Fontana trial.

California Law That Applies to Fontana Car Accident Cases

The statewide statutes that frame every Fontana claim are the same statutes that frame every other San Bernardino County case: California Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 (two-year personal-injury statute of limitations); CCP 377.30 and CCP 377.34 (survival actions, including the post-1/1/2026 rule that allows recovery of pre-death pain and suffering in survival cases filed on or after January 1, 2026); CCP 377.60 (wrongful-death standing classes – surviving spouse, registered domestic partner, children, and other heirs by intestate succession); California Vehicle Code section 16000 (10-day SR-1 reporting requirement for any collision causing injury, death, or over $1,000 in property damage); CVC 22350 (basic speed law); CVC 22107 (improper lane change); CVC 23152 (DUI); CVC 21950 and CVC 21954 (driver-pedestrian duties as amended by AB 2147 effective 1/1/2023); Government Code section 911.2 (six-month government-tort-claim deadline for any claim against Caltrans, the City of Fontana, the County of San Bernardino, or any other public entity); and Insurance Code section 11580.2 (uninsured and underinsured motorist arbitration). For any commercial-truck case originating in the Fontana warehouse corridor, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations at 49 CFR Parts 382 (drug and alcohol testing), 390-396 (general operating regulations, driver qualification, hours of service, inspection), and 49 CFR Part 387 (financial responsibility minimums) supply the federal standards that overlay the state-law negligence claims. Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804 supplies California’s pure comparative fault rule, and Proposition 213 (Civil Code section 3333.4) bars non-economic damages where the plaintiff was driving uninsured at the time of the crash.

Local Driving Routes and Hazards in Fontana

The four routes below concentrate the documented injury-crash risk for Fontana drivers. Each combines a specific roadway segment with the recurring crash pattern that Fontana Police Department patrols and CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area (855) document in their incident files and 555 collision reports.

• I-10 San Bernardino Freeway through south Fontana from Sierra Avenue to Etiwanda Avenue.

  This is the highest-volume crash corridor in Fontana. The Sierra Avenue, Cherry Avenue, Citrus Avenue, and Etiwanda Avenue interchanges concentrate rear-end and sideswipe collisions as 200,000 to 230,000 vehicles per day move between the Inland Empire and the Los Angeles County line. The May 19, 2025 westbound multi-vehicle fatal crash near the Sierra Avenue off-ramp – a Toyota Camry, a trailer, and a Honda Odyssey, with one Honda occupant pronounced dead at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center – is the recurring fact pattern. The Slover Avenue, Valley Boulevard, and Jurupa Avenue surface-street feeders to the I-10 ramps also generate concentrated commercial-truck volume because the Amazon, Target, FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Smart and Final fulfillment centers route most of their outbound load tractors through these ramps. CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area (855) is the investigating office on every freeway-mainline crash. The 30-to-60-day FMCSA spoliation window is the single most important calendar deadline in any I-10 commercial-truck case.

• I-210 Foothill Freeway across north Fontana between Sierra Avenue and Citrus Avenue.

  I-210 across north Fontana is the corridor that produced the January 14, 2025 wrong-way crash near the Citrus Avenue exit at approximately 6:30 a.m., in which the 23-year-old Fontana driver of a Ford going the wrong direction at speeds reported up to 100 miles per hour collided with the Plasencia family’s Lexus and killed Jose Plasencia (43, of Highland), his 16-year-old daughter Mia Plasencia at the scene, and his 3-year-old son Ivan Plasencia who died on January 19 from his injuries. The January 8, 2025 westbound big-rig overturn that was investigated as a fatal traffic accident on the same Foothill Freeway corridor illustrates the commercial-vehicle rollover pattern. High-speed loss-of-control crashes, wrong-way DUI collisions, and big-rig rollovers are the dominant CHP Rancho Cucamonga (855) file types on this segment.

• Slover Avenue, Valley Boulevard, and Jurupa Avenue across the Fontana warehouse corridor.

  Slover Avenue (east-west across south Fontana), Valley Boulevard (east-west south of Slover), and Jurupa Avenue (east-west into Jurupa Valley along the southern Fontana edge) form the surface-street spine of the Fontana industrial and warehouse district. The Inland Empire as a whole holds about 717 million square feet of warehouse inventory – the largest such market in the United States – and the Fontana submarket holds approximately 23 million square feet of that total, with more than 70 new warehouses approved by the City of Fontana since 2010 covering close to 860 acres. The Amazon CapRock site at 3945 Lytle Creek Road, the Amazon I-15 Logistics Center, and Target, FedEx, Coca-Cola, and Smart and Final fulfillment centers move FMCSA-regulated tractor-trailer flow from their docks onto these surface streets and the I-10 and I-15 ramps. Recurring crash patterns are commercial-truck-versus-passenger-car sideswipes at the ramp transitions, dock-entrance left-turn-across-traffic crashes, and pedestrian-struck-by-truck events near the warehouse driveways. Every commercial-truck crash on this corridor generates a parallel federal evidence package – driver qualification files, hours-of-service logs, pre-trip inspections, drug-and-alcohol testing records, and the carrier’s FMCSA SAFER safety rating – that must be preserved through a written spoliation letter within the first 30 to 60 days.

• Sierra Avenue, Foothill Boulevard (historic Route 66), and the Fontana surface-arterial grid.

  Sierra Avenue is the primary north-south commercial spine of Fontana, running from south of I-10 across Valley Boulevard, Foothill Boulevard, Baseline Avenue, the Sierra Lakes residential corridor, and the I-210 interchange. Foothill Boulevard is the east-west surface spine across the city and follows the historic Route 66 alignment (state-route status as SR-66 was relinquished to local jurisdictions through Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, and Claremont but the Route 66 signage and street grid remain). Citrus Avenue serves east Fontana, Cherry Avenue serves west Fontana, and Highland Avenue threads east-west across north Fontana toward the I-210 ramps. School-zone pedestrian incidents near A.B. Miller High School, Fontana High School, Henry J. Kaiser High School, and the Fontana Unified School District elementary campuses cluster in the morning and afternoon arrival windows. Parking-lot backing crashes, left-turn-across-traffic collisions, and pedestrian-struck-in-crosswalk events on the Sierra Avenue commercial strip are the dominant Fontana Police Department incident-report types on this network.

Why Fontana Clients Hire Yaghmai Law Firm

Fontana clients reach us because we treat the Fontana Police Department incident report, the CHP 555 freeway file from Rancho Cucamonga Area (855), the Kaiser Permanente Fontana emergency department records, the Arrowhead Regional or Loma Linda University trauma-admission records, the FMCSA discoverable file on any commercial truck involved, and the Civil Division docket at the Rancho Cucamonga District as a single integrated evidence package that has to be assembled on the calendar, not on whichever schedule the agencies happen to release records.

“If you are getting pushback from an insurance company right now, that is normal. You do not have to handle it alone. I will deal with them while you take care of yourself.”

— Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President & Managing Attorney, Yaghmai Law Firm, APC

Our Fontana intake team works with English, Spanish (through certified interpreters), Farsi, and French speakers, and we travel to North Fontana, Sierra Lakes, Hunter’s Ridge, South Fontana, Jurupa Hills, Bloomington, Rialto, and the Slover Avenue warehouse corridor at no additional cost. Initial case evaluations are confidential, free of charge, and committed to before any contingency agreement is signed.

Fontana Car Accident FAQ

Does Fontana have its own police department or do I deal with the San Bernardino County Sheriff?

Fontana has its own standalone municipal police department – the Fontana Police Department, headquartered at 17005 Upland Avenue, Fontana, CA 92335, with non-emergency dispatch at (909) 350-7740 and led by Chief Michael Dorsey. Fontana PD is NOT a San Bernardino County Sheriff contract. The Fontana PD is the responding agency for every surface-street collision inside Fontana city limits. CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area (855) handles all freeway collisions on I-10, I-15, and I-210 across Fontana. The San Bernardino County Sheriff handles unincorporated areas adjacent to Fontana – Bloomington, Devore, parts of Lytle Creek – but does NOT patrol inside Fontana city limits.

I was hit on I-10 in Fontana – which CHP office investigates and where do I get the report?

Every freeway collision on I-10, I-15, or I-210 inside Fontana is investigated by CHP Rancho Cucamonga Area, office (855), at 9530 Pittsburg Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730-6014, dispatched at (909) 980-3994. The (855) area patrols more than 250 square miles across Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Mount Baldy, and San Antonio Heights, so the same office writes your 555 collision report whether the crash was on the I-10 Sierra Avenue interchange in south Fontana, the I-210 Citrus Avenue area in north Fontana, or the I-15 ramps west of Sierra Avenue. The 555 report typically takes 10 to 14 days to release for a non-fatal collision and 6 to 12 months for a MAIT (multidisciplinary accident investigation team) reconstruction in a fatal freeway case.

Where do I file my Fontana car accident lawsuit – is the case filed at the Fontana courthouse?

No. The Fontana Courthouse at 17780 Arrow Boulevard handles traffic, misdemeanor, felony, and juvenile matters but does NOT accept general civil personal-injury filings. Effective December 2023, San Bernardino Superior Court relocated all general civil PI filings for the West End region from the San Bernardino Justice Center to the Civil Division at the Rancho Cucamonga District, located at 8303 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730. The Rancho Cucamonga District is now the proper civil venue for Fontana personal-injury complaints. Civil filing windows are open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Civil Case Cover Sheet (Judicial Council form CM-010) must accompany every new complaint.

A commercial truck from one of the Slover Avenue warehouses hit me. What evidence has to be preserved right away?

Commercial-truck crashes in the Fontana warehouse corridor generate a parallel federal evidence package that disappears quickly unless a written spoliation letter is sent to the carrier within 30 to 60 days of the crash. The core records are the driver qualification file (49 CFR Part 391), the hours-of-service logs and electronic-logging-device data (49 CFR Part 395), the pre-trip and post-trip vehicle inspection reports (49 CFR Part 396), the drug and alcohol testing records (49 CFR Part 382), the carrier’s accident register, and the carrier’s safety rating on the FMCSA SAFER website. Many carriers retain these records only for the federal minimum retention period – hours-of-service logs only six months, for example – so a routine spoliation letter dated within the first 30 to 60 days is the difference between a complete carrier-side file and a reconstructed one.

I was taken to Kaiser Fontana after the crash. Is that a trauma center, and what happens if I need higher-level care?

Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center at 9961 Sierra Avenue is a 450-bed acute-care hospital with a 24/7 emergency department – but it is NOT a designated trauma center. Polytrauma, multiple-system injury, severe TBI, severe burns, and pediatric critical-care patients transfer from Kaiser Fontana to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Level I Trauma Center at 400 North Pepper Avenue in Colton (15 miles east via I-10, upgraded from Level II to Level I in 2022) or to Loma Linda University Medical Center Adult and Pediatric Level I Trauma Center (about 25 miles east via I-10). The trauma-transfer documentation, the ambulance run sheets from American Medical Response or San Bernardino County Fire, and the receiving trauma-center admission records all become part of the medical evidence package and should be requested under a HIPAA-compliant release as early as possible.

Do I have to drive to a Los Angeles office to hire Yaghmai Law Firm for my Fontana crash?

No. Our practice is remote-by-design. We meet Fontana clients by phone, video, and text, and we travel to North Fontana, Sierra Lakes, Hunter’s Ridge, South Fontana, Jurupa Hills, Bloomington, Rialto, and the Slover Avenue warehouse corridor at no additional cost. We communicate in English, French, Farsi, and through certified Spanish-language interpreters. Initial consultations are free, confidential, and require no signed contingency agreement to begin.

Related Yaghmai Law Firm Resources

The pages below cover practice-area-specific frameworks that frequently apply alongside Fontana car-accident claims.

• Personal Injury Practice Overview
• Car Accident Lawyer
• Truck Accident Lawyer
• Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
• Wrongful Death Lawyer
• Pedestrian Accident Lawyer

Reviewed by Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President & Managing Attorney. Admitted to practice law in California (State Bar No. 298487). He represents personal injury and immigration clients statewide.

Last updated: May 31, 2026.