Glendale Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

Vehicle Code § 21658.1 defines lane splitting as riding a two-wheeled motorcycle between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane, and authorizes the California Highway Patrol to develop educational guidelines. It does not make the practice unlawful, and no other California statute prohibits it.

That distinction matters because insurers routinely treat splitting as fault in itself. It is not. Fault is decided on the ordinary rules of the road — speed, lane position, following distance, and whether the driver looked before moving over.

The recurring Glendale collision is a driver turning left across a rider's path, or changing lanes into one, at a downtown intersection or a freeway ramp. Vehicle Code § 21801 requires a driver turning left to yield to oncoming traffic close enough to be a hazard, and Vehicle Code § 22107 permits a lane change only when it can be made with reasonable safety and after signalling.

Where a roadway defect, a utility cut or a signal timing problem contributed, the City of Glendale may share responsibility, and Government Code § 911.2 generally requires a written claim within six months.

Adventist Health Glendale, 1509 Wilson Terrace, and Glendale Memorial Hospital, 1420 S. Central Ave, are the city's emergency departments; the designated trauma centers nearest Glendale are Huntington Hospital in Pasadena and Los Angeles General Medical Center.

Keep the helmet, the jacket and the gear, and photograph the bike before any repair. Those items document the forces involved better than any description of them.