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Hit by a Drunk Driver Leaving The Observatory & Yost Theater? Your Rights After a Santa Ana Downtown Nightlife DUI Crash Superior Court (1979) because driving drunk is legally “despicable” conduct. You have two years to file (CCP §335.1). Call Sky Law Group at (844) 475-9529 — Hablamos Español. The streets and intersections around The Observatory & Yost Theater — 4th Street, Broadway, Spurgeon Street, Main Street, Bristol Street, 17th Street, and the I-5 and SR-55 ramps at 17th and 4th — carry some of the heaviest post-show and 2 a.m. last-call traffic in Santa Ana. Add the the concert bars at The Observatory and Yost Theater, the dense bar strip on 4th Street (Memphis, Original Mike’s, The Copper Door, Chapter One), and the Spurgeon Street late-night venues, and Santa Ana ends up with one of the highest rates of alcohol-involved, after-dark collisions in Orange County. When a driver leaves that district impaired at 2 a.m. last call, the people they hit are often concertgoers walking to parking garages, 4th Street bar crawlers, Santa Ana families on Bristol, and rideshare drivers — and they rarely know how much their claim is actually worth. Why the clock is already running against you A DUI crash case is won or lost in the first 72 hours. The at-fault driver’s blood-alcohol result, the toxicology from the hospital, the Observatory, Yost valet, and 4th Street bar surveillance video, the vehicle’s Event Data Recorder (“black box”) speed and braking data, and the Santa Ana PD […]