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Bakersfield, CA | Personal Injury Examples<\/p>

Common Personal Injury Cases in California, and What They Look Like<\/h1>

Car and truck crashes, motorcycle and bicycle accidents, pedestrian injuries, dog bites, and more. See the situations our Bakersfield team handles for accident victims and families.<\/p>

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By Donald Norman Colvin \u00b7 Published October 27, 2026<\/p>\n\n

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What is an example of personal injury?<\/strong> A driver runs a red light and hits a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The pedestrian is hurt because the driver did not use reasonable care. That is a personal injury case, and California has many common examples like it. This page explains the idea, the common types, and what to do if you are hurt.<\/p>\n

What is considered a personal injury?<\/h2>\n

A personal injury is bodily or emotional harm a person suffers because someone else was negligent or acted wrongfully. Negligence means failing to use the care a reasonable person would use. The injury is the harm itself. The claim is the legal route to seek compensation for it.<\/p>\n

California law puts this in plain terms. Under California Civil Code \u00a7 1714<\/a>, everyone is responsible for an injury caused by want of ordinary care in managing their property or person. Cal. Civ. Code \u00a7 1714<\/a> reads: “(a) Everyone is responsible, not only for the result of his or her willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by his or her want of ordinary care or skill in the management of his or her property or person, except so far as the latter has, willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon himself or herself.”<\/p>\n

The same kind of harm can come from different causes. A broken wrist from a car crash and a broken wrist from a fall on a wet store floor are both injuries. They raise different questions about who was at fault. The facts of each situation decide how the claim is viewed.<\/p>\n\n

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Common examples of personal injury<\/h2>\n

Common examples include car, truck, bus, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, dog bite, premises liability, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases. Each one has its own facts.<\/p>\n