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Hit by a Drunk Driver Leaving The Observatory & Yost Theater? Your Rights After a Santa Ana Downtown Nightlife DUI Crash Short answer: If a drunk driver hit you near The Observatory & Yost Theater in Santa Ana, 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 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. […]