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Hit by a Drunk Driver Leaving Downtown Fullerton Bar District? Your Rights After a Fullerton College Town Nightlife DUI Crash Short answer: If a drunk driver hit you near Downtown Fullerton Bar District in Fullerton, 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 Downtown Fullerton Bar District — Harbor Boulevard, Commonwealth Avenue, Chapman Avenue, Wilshire Avenue, Santa Fe Avenue, and the SR-91 ramps at Harbor and Lemon — carry some of the heaviest post-last-call and Cal State Fullerton game-night traffic in Fullerton. Add the the Harbor Boulevard bar strip (Slidebar, The Continental, Branagan’s, Rockin’ Taco), Mulberry Street Ristorante, the Fullerton Elks Lodge, and Cal State Fullerton house parties and tailgates, and Fullerton 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 Harbor Blvd last call, the people they hit are often Cal State Fullerton students, bar-hoppers, locals on Commonwealth, and Metrolink Fullerton Station riders — and they rarely know how much their claim is actually worth. Why the clock is already running against you A DUI crash case […]