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Riverside Truck Accident Lawyer
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Our office is here — 3651 3rd Street, Riverside
Singh Law HQ is a Riverside truck accident law firm — not a statewide advertiser with a Riverside phone number. The office is at 3651 3rd Street, a few minutes’ walk from the Riverside Historic Courthouse, and the attorney who takes your first call is the one who works your file.
Truck cases are decided early. The carrier’s investigators are often at the scene the same day, and the driver logs, telematics, and dash-cam footage that prove fault belong to them. When you describe the 60 where it runs with the 215 through the east side of the city, or a rig pulling out of the Hunter Industrial Park, you are talking to someone who drives it — and who sends the evidence-preservation letter in the first days, not the first months.
Where Riverside crashes happen
The 91 through downtown is one of the most congested stretches of freeway in California, and the interchange where it meets the 60 and the 215 produces a steady stream of rear-end and lane-change collisions. Add the surface arterials — Magnolia, Van Buren, Arlington, University near UCR — and you have a city where most serious injury claims start with a driver who was moving too fast for traffic that had already stopped.
Why Riverside has so many truck crashes
Riverside sits between the Fontana and Ontario warehouse belt to the north and the Moreno Valley and Perris distribution centers to the east and south, so the 60, the 91, and the 215 carry tractor-trailers straight through residential corridors. Box trucks and last-mile delivery vans work the surface streets on top of that. A collision with a commercial vehicle is a different case from a fender-bender — federal hours-of-service rules, a carrier with its own rapid-response investigators, and a policy many times larger than a personal one — and the first weeks decide how much of that evidence survives.
How a Riverside truck accident attorney builds the case
We send a preservation demand to the carrier at the start, then pull the driver’s hours-of-service logs, the electronic logging device and telematics data, dash-cam footage, the maintenance and inspection file, and the driver’s qualification records. We check the carrier’s federal safety record, identify the shipper, broker, and trailer owner, and get the Riverside Police or CHP report and any intersection camera footage before it is recorded over. If the injured person is the truck driver — an owner-operator hit by another vehicle, or a company driver his own carrier is quick to blame — the case runs the same way, and it can run in Punjabi from the first call. Truck cases across the wider region are covered on our Inland Empire truck accident page.
Car and motorcycle crashes in Riverside
The 91 and 60 commutes produce multi-car rear-end chains where fault is shared out among three or four drivers, and the first lawyer to lock down the sequence of impacts usually decides how it is apportioned. That work has its own page: Riverside car accident claims. Riders face the opposite problem — adjusters who assume the motorcyclist caused it. Lane splitting is legal in California, and a motorcycle accident claim in Riverside is usually won on the fault argument, not the injury argument.
Where a Riverside case is filed
Riverside County injury cases are filed in the Riverside County Superior Court, most often at the Hall of Justice or the Historic Courthouse on Main Street. Serious crashes in the city are treated at Riverside Community Hospital, the county’s first Level I trauma center — if that is where you are reading this, start here. Most claims settle long before a courtroom is involved — but the insurance company’s valuation of your case moves the moment they believe the firm on the other side is genuinely prepared to file.
In your language
Riverside and the wider Inland Empire are home to a substantial Punjabi- and Hindi-speaking population, and Saloni Singh practices in both alongside English and Spanish as a Punjabi- and Hindi-speaking personal injury lawyer. You will not be asked to bring a relative to translate your own medical history.
Results & reviews
What clients have recovered.
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$160,000
Settlement · Commercial Trucking Accident
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$102,000
Settlement · Auto Accident — Minimal Visible Vehicle Damage
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$100,000
Settlement · Uninsured Motorist — DUI Collision
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. Every case is different and results depend on the specific facts and circumstances of each matter. Read each case →
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This attorney is knowledgeable and will go above and beyond to help you understand what your options are. Legal issues can be very complicated, but in my experience Saloni proved to be very good at explaining and answering all my questions. She is also extremely professional and personable, I highly recommend her!
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Excellent attorney Saloni Singh handled my injury case with great professionalism and won my case. She is very knowledgeable, responsive, and truly cares about her clients Highly recommended thanku saloni singh
Riverside — common questions
- What should I do after a truck accident in Riverside?
- Get medical care first, and keep every record. Photograph the truck, its DOT number, the trailer, and the scene if you can. Do not give a recorded statement to the trucking company’s insurer, and call a Riverside truck accident attorney before the carrier’s own investigators finish theirs — the driver logs and telematics that decide fault can be lawfully overwritten within weeks.
- Who pays after a crash with a semi truck in Riverside?
- Usually the motor carrier’s commercial insurer, which carries limits far above a personal auto policy. Depending on the facts, the driver, the trucking company, the trailer owner, the shipper or loader, and a maintenance contractor can each share liability. Finding every one of them is where the recovery in a truck case comes from — here is how we approach it across the Inland Empire.
- How long do I have to file an injury claim in Riverside?
- California generally gives you two years from the date of the injury to bring a personal injury claim, and only six months to file a claim against a government entity — a city, county, or public agency. Those deadlines apply in Riverside County the same as anywhere else in the state. The evidence that decides cases disappears much faster than the deadline does, which is why the first call should not wait.
- Do I have to come to your office?
- No. Our office is at 3651 3rd Street in downtown Riverside and you are welcome there any time — but nothing about your case requires it. Consultations happen by phone, video, or in person, whichever you prefer.
- What does it cost to hire Singh Law HQ?
- The consultation is free, and the firm works on contingency: you pay no fee unless we recover money for you. If there is no recovery, you owe no attorney's fee.
- Can I talk to someone in Punjabi or Hindi?
- Yes — directly with Saloni Singh, not through an interpreter service. The firm handles consultations in English, Spanish, Punjabi, and Hindi; here is how that works.
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