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Hit by a Drunk Driver Leaving Old Towne Orange Plaza & Chapman University? Your Rights After a Orange Historic Plaza Bar District 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 Old Towne Orange Plaza & Chapman University — Glassell Street, Chapman Avenue, Palm Avenue, Katella Avenue, Tustin Street, and the SR-55 (Costa Mesa Freeway) ramps at Chapman and Katella — carry some of the heaviest late-night student and weekend traffic in Orange. Add the the bars around the plaza (Haven Craft Kitchen + Bar, O’Hara’s Pub, The Filling Station), Chapman University house parties and tailgates, and the brewery scene at Provisions and Chapman Crafted, and Orange 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. after last call on Chapman Ave, the people they hit are often Chapman students walking back to housing, Old Towne residents, Uber and Lyft drivers queued at the plaza, and OCTA Route 59 bus riders — 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 Old Towne plaza business, Chapman Avenue bar, and Glassell Street surveillance video, the […]