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Hit by a Drunk Driver Leaving Dana Point Harbor & Lantern District? Your Rights After a Dana Point Harbor Nightlife DUI Crash Short answer: If a drunk driver hit you near Dana Point Harbor & Lantern District in Dana Point, you can recover far more than a routine crash pays — settlements for DUI injuries in Orange County commonly run $75,000 to $500,000+, and California lets a jury add punitive damages on top under Civil Code §3294 and Taylor v. 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 Dana Point Harbor & Lantern District — Dana Point Harbor Drive, Pacific Coast Highway, Del Prado Avenue, Street of the Blue Lantern, Golden Lantern, and the I-5 ramps at PCH and Del Obispo — carry some of the heaviest post-sunset and weekend harbor traffic in Dana Point. Add the the Harbor restaurants and sunset cruises (Jolly Roger, Harpoon Henry’s), the Lantern District restaurants (Luxe, 329 Public House, Hennessey’s), and the Monarch Beach resort bars, and Dana Point ends up with one of the elevated rates of alcohol-involved, after-dark collisions in Orange County. When a driver leaves that district impaired at 11 p.m. closing or after a late sunset cruise, the people they hit are often visitors leaving the Harbor by car, Dana Point residents on Del Prado, San Clemente commuters on PCH, and bicyclists on the Harbor […]