Waypoints OC explains what happens after a car crash in Orange County. Readers are often hurt and short on time, so we write plainly and put the source link beside the fact it supports.
Primary sources
Time limits come from the Code of Civil Procedure and the Government Code, reporting and insurance duties from the Vehicle Code, and damages rules from the Civil Code. CHP Area coverage comes from the CHP. Trauma center levels come from the hospitals and the Orange County Health Care Agency. Court locations come from the Superior Court of California, County of Orange.
What we leave out
We do not publish case results, settlement amounts, rankings or predictions about any claim. Examples that use numbers are labelled. No lawyer or named expert reviews the pages, and we do not say otherwise.
Updates
When a fee, an office or a rule changes, we update the page and its date. A correction that changes what a reader should do gets a short note on the page. To report a problem, see our corrections page.