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Hit by a Drunk Driver Leaving Main Street Huntington Beach & HB Pier? Your Rights After a Huntington Beach Beach-Town Bar District DUI Crash Short answer: If a drunk driver hit you near Main Street Huntington Beach & HB Pier in Huntington Beach, 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 Main Street Huntington Beach & HB Pier — Main Street, Pacific Coast Highway, 5th Street, 6th Street, Walnut Avenue, Olive Avenue, Beach Boulevard, and the Edinger and Warner interchanges — carry some of the heaviest post-sunset bar and summer-holiday traffic in Huntington Beach. Add the the Main Street bar strip (Hurricanes, Baja Sharkeez, Sandy’s, Longboard Pub), the pier plaza bars, the Pacific City nightlife, and the Fourth of July crowd that packs PCH, and Huntington Beach 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 Main Street last call, the people they hit are often tourists walking to beach lots, Uber passengers from Downtown HB, locals on Beach Boulevard, and bicyclists on the beach trail — and […]