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Personal injury lawyers for Solano County
I-80 runs the length of Solano County, and most of its serious crashes happen on or near it. Wherever you were hurt, the case review is free.
Solano County lives along Interstate 80. The freeway enters at the Carquinez Bridge in Vallejo and runs northeast through Fairfield and Vacaville toward Sacramento, carrying everything the corridor asks of it: Bay Area commuters, long-haul trucks, weekend Tahoe traffic, and local trips stacked on top. Add I-680 coming over the Benicia–Martinez Bridge, Highway 12 cutting across toward Rio Vista and Napa, and Highway 37 skirting the marshes toward Marin, and you have a county whose serious crashes overwhelmingly happen at highway speed.
We represent injured people throughout Solano County — Vallejo, Fairfield, Vacaville, Benicia, and the smaller communities between. High-speed corridor crashes bring a particular set of problems: severe injuries, multiple vehicles and insurers, and commercial trucking companies whose investigators reach the scene long before the injured person has left the hospital. Two-lane routes like Highway 12 add head-on and passing-zone collisions, some of the most devastating cases we see anywhere.
Oguz Injury Lawyers LLP handles Solano County cases from our Walnut Creek office, just over the Benicia Bridge on I-680. Most cases begin with a phone or video call, and we travel when it helps. The review is free, we work in English, Spanish, Turkish, and Mandarin Chinese, and you pay nothing unless we recover for you.
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Courts
Solano County Superior Court
Civil injury lawsuits arising in Solano County are filed in the Solano County Superior Court. As in every California county, the great majority of injury claims resolve by settlement — but the court's deadlines apply from the day of the injury, whether or not a lawsuit is ever filed.
Nearby hospitals
- NorthBay Medical Center, Fairfield
- Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center
- Sutter Solano Medical Center, Vallejo
Getting your accident report
Who holds your collision report depends on where the crash happened. Inside a city — Vallejo, Fairfield, Vacaville, Benicia, and the others — the city's police department usually writes it. On I-80, I-680, I-505, Highway 12, and Highway 37, and in the county's large unincorporated stretches, the California Highway Patrol typically investigates, and some matters fall to the Solano County Sheriff's Office. If you are not sure which agency responded to your crash, we can identify it and request the report for you as part of a free case review.
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Frequently asked questions
How long do I have to bring an injury claim in Solano County?
Generally two years from the date of injury, under California Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1. If a public entity may be responsible — a transit bus, a city or county vehicle, a dangerous condition of a public road — a written government claim is typically required within six months. Get clarity on which deadline governs your case before it gets a chance to matter.
I was hit by a big rig on I-80. What makes a truck case different?
Scale, on every axis: worse injuries, larger insurance policies, federal safety regulations, and evidence — driver logs, onboard data, maintenance records — that the trucking company controls and that can disappear if no one demands its preservation quickly. On a corridor as truck-heavy as I-80, these cases are common, and early legal help changes what evidence survives.
My crash was a head-on on Highway 12. Who investigated it?
Highway 12 is a state route running largely through unincorporated land, so the California Highway Patrol almost certainly handled the investigation, and the report comes from the CHP. Head-on and passing-zone collisions usually produce serious injuries and hard-fought fault disputes — the physical evidence matters enormously, and we work with it early.
The insurance company says I share the blame. What happens to my claim?
It survives. California's pure comparative negligence rule reduces your recovery by your percentage of fault instead of eliminating it, no matter how the split falls. The percentage itself is a negotiation grounded in evidence — not a number the adjuster gets to decree.
What will it cost me to hire your firm?
Nothing out of pocket. We take injury cases on a contingency fee: our fee is a percentage of the recovery, agreed in writing before we start, and if there is no recovery there is no fee. The initial case review is free.
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Injured in Solano County? Talk to us first.
The case review is free and confidential, and you pay nothing unless we win. Tell us what happened, and we will tell you honestly where you stand.