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Reviewed by David Gammill, California trial attorney · Last reviewed: September 24, 2026
If you were hurt by someone else’s negligence in Redondo Beach, California law lets you recover your medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering, and it puts a deadline on doing it. Gammill Law Accident & Injury Lawyers is a South Bay trial firm that represents injured people and families in Redondo Beach and across the South Bay. The firm has recovered more than $100 million for California clients across verdicts and settlements. Its results include a $21.1 million wrongful death verdict, a $16 million school sexual abuse verdict, and a $12 million whistleblower retaliation verdict; every case is different, and prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Redondo Beach is a coastal city in two halves. North Redondo is an inland grid of arterials: Artesia Boulevard, Aviation Boulevard, Inglewood Avenue, Manhattan Beach Boulevard, and the 190th Street and Anita Street corridor. The coastal south runs on Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1, with Catalina Avenue, Torrance Boulevard, and Prospect Avenue feeding the Pier and King Harbor. No freeway runs through the city; the 405 lies to the east, and PCH is the state-highway spine. The City’s own 2024 housing-element traffic study, with counts taken in late 2023, measured about 46,000 to 47,000 vehicles a day on Hawthorne Boulevard between Artesia Boulevard and 190th Street, the busiest corridor it studied, and about 24,000 a day on Pacific Coast Highway near Palos Verdes Boulevard. The same study rated two intersections at its lowest level of service in the peak hours: 190th Street and Anita Street at Flagler Lane, and Prospect Avenue at PCH. The Pier, King Harbor, the Esplanade, and the waterfront restaurant and nightlife district draw visitors from across the region and fill PCH, Torrance Boulevard, and Catalina Avenue on evenings and weekends. That does not make any one place responsible for a crash.
The state’s numbers put 2022 as the peak year. According to the Office of Traffic Safety’s crash rankings for Redondo Beach, 272 people were killed or injured in the city’s crashes in 2019, 296 in 2021, 333 in 2022, and 318 in 2023; the state did not publish a 2020 ranking for the city. In 2022 the rankings counted 78 alcohol-involved victims in Redondo Beach, the worst of 104 cities its size, and 52 in 2023, eighth of 103. In the same rankings the city’s DUI arrest counts sat near the bottom of its group, 266 arrests in 2022 (103rd of 104) and 196 in 2023 (95th of 103); the two figures measure different things, crash outcomes and enforcement activity, and neither explains the other. The rest of the 2022 picture: 51 nighttime injury crashes (third of 104), 41 bicyclists hurt or killed (fifth of 104), and 9 pedestrians aged 65 and older hurt or killed (fourth of 104), a 2022 picture, not the present, and not about any one place. In 2023 the rankings counted 32 bicyclists (sixth of 103), 16 motorcyclists (seventh of 103), 47 speed-related injury crashes (18th of 103), 22 hit-and-run injury crashes (31st of 103), and 22 pedestrians hurt or killed (32nd of 103). California law gives a pedestrian in a marked or unmarked crosswalk the right of way under Vehicle Code § 21950, the rule that decides most crosswalk cases. A driver who leaves the scene of an injury crash commits a crime under Vehicle Code § 20001.
Redondo Beach runs its own police force with a dedicated Traffic Division, and the crash report on city streets is written by the Redondo Beach Police Department, 401 Diamond Street. The record the City keeps matters too: the Office of Traffic Safety funded a $160,000 traffic-enforcement grant for the year ending September 2025, and the City’s capital program lists a $2.5 million left-turn project at Anita Street and Herondo Street at Pacific Coast Highway as completed in spring 2025. In a roadway case, Government Code § 835 governs when a dangerous condition of public property can support a claim, and a completed safety project is evidence in both directions, including an immunity the public entity may raise. The South Bay’s only Level I trauma center is Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street in West Carson, operated by Los Angeles County. Redondo Beach has no hospital emergency room inside the city; the former South Bay Hospital on Prospect Avenue is now the Beach Cities Health District campus, a clinic and wellness site, and the nearest emergency rooms are in Torrance.
Most California injury claims must be filed within two years. Under CCP § 335.1, the clock starts the day of the injury, and courts rarely excuse a missed deadline. Our plain-English guide to CCP § 335.1, California’s two-year statute of limitations, covers the rule and its narrow exceptions.
Government cases move much faster. If a city vehicle, a malfunctioning signal, or a dangerous stretch of road played a role, Government Code § 911.2 requires a written claim to the right public entity within six months, before any lawsuit. In Redondo Beach that entity is usually the City of Redondo Beach for city streets and signals or for a City police or maintenance vehicle; a crash on Pacific Coast Highway can point at Caltrans instead, because PCH is State Route 1 and part of the state highway system; the County of Los Angeles comes into it only where a county-run facility is involved. Our guide to the California government claim deadline walks through the sequence, and we identify the correct entity and file on time.
Where the case is heard. Most Redondo Beach injury lawsuits are filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Southwest District, at either the Torrance Courthouse or the Inglewood Courthouse. Redondo Beach has no courthouse of its own, and since 2022 the court has kept new personal injury cases in their local district courts from filing through trial.
California requires drivers to carry only minimum liability coverage of $30,000 per injured person, $60,000 per accident, and $15,000 for property damage (Vehicle Code § 16451, for policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025). A single emergency room visit can exceed the per-person minimum. The real work in a Redondo Beach injury case is finding every source of coverage that legally applies: the at-fault driver’s policy, an employer’s policy if that driver was working, a rideshare company’s policy if the trip was on the app, and your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. The alcohol and hit-and-run numbers above make that last policy matter here. When the other driver was drinking, leaves the scene, or carries only the minimum, the victim’s own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is often the policy that pays, and it has strict notice conditions, so get advice early.
Car Accidents. Rear-end, intersection, and left-turn collisions on Pacific Coast Highway, Artesia Boulevard, and the city’s other arterials, where we identify every applicable policy and prove fault with the police report, the physical evidence, and any video before it is overwritten.
Wrongful Death. When a crash or other negligence takes a life, California law lets the closest family members bring a claim for their loss, and it has its own rules and deadlines.
Truck Accidents. The City’s designated truck routes run on the same corridors that carry its heaviest traffic, and a crash with a commercial truck brings federal safety rules, driver logs, and maintenance records into the case while the carrier’s insurer moves quickly to protect itself.
Dog Bites. A dog owner is strictly liable for a bite in a public place under California’s dog bite law, Civil Code § 3342, regardless of the dog’s history.
For other case types we handle across the South Bay, see our Torrance pages on pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, slip and fall, rideshare, catastrophic injury, and brain injury cases.
California law allows injured people to recover economic damages, meaning documented losses like emergency care, surgery, therapy, medications, future treatment, lost income, and vehicle repair or replacement, and non-economic damages, meaning the human losses: pain, anxiety, lost sleep, and the activities an injury takes away. Where a drunk or grossly reckless driver caused the harm, punitive damages may be available on clear and convincing proof under Civil Code § 3294; the Office of Traffic Safety counted 78 alcohol-involved crash victims in Redondo Beach in 2022 and 52 in 2023. When a crash or other negligence takes a life, the family’s claim is a wrongful death claim with its own rules, and our Redondo Beach wrongful death page explains them.
Our office is in Torrance, on Del Amo Boulevard at Hawthorne Boulevard, a few miles inland from the beach cities, and our attorneys bring more than 40 years of combined legal experience to every case we take. We prepare every case for trial from the first meeting, because insurers price a claim differently when the lawyer across the table will finish the fight in front of a jury.
We work on a contingency fee: nothing upfront, no hourly bills, and a fee only out of the recovery, under a written contingency fee agreement that complies with California law.
Injured and unable to travel? We meet clients at the hospital, at home, or wherever recovery requires, and we can meet by phone or Zoom. Call 310-750-4149 any time, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Start with trial experience, because the value an insurer puts on your claim depends on whether your lawyer is ready to try the case. David Gammill has tried over 100 cases to verdict. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Before that, he spent seven years as a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, so he knows how the other side prepares. Two practical questions cut through the rest: will the lawyer who signs you up be the one who handles your case, and can the firm point to real results in cases like yours? The firm’s record is set out above.
Two years from the injury for most claims, under CCP § 335.1. If a public entity may be responsible, a written claim is due to that entity within six months under Government Code § 911.2, and the two-year rule does not save a missed claim. Both guides are linked above.
Your claim still runs against the driver and the driver’s liability policy, and the Redondo Beach Police Department report and any criminal case proceed separately from your civil claim. A drinking driver opens the door to punitive damages under Civil Code § 3294, which are never guaranteed but change how an insurer values the case. Because PCH is State Route 1 and part of the state highway system, a road-condition question on PCH can point at Caltrans, and that claim has a six-month deadline. Alcohol-involved victims were Redondo Beach’s worst-ranked category in the 2022 rankings, so this is a case type we know well.
In the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Southwest District, at either the Torrance Courthouse or the Inglewood Courthouse, the two courthouses that hear cases arising in Redondo Beach. The case stays in that district from start to finish.
Nothing upfront and nothing unless we win. We work on a contingency fee, paid only out of the recovery. Our page on what a personal injury lawyer costs explains the arrangement in detail.
Gammill Law represents people injured in Redondo Beach and throughout the South Bay, including Torrance, Gardena, Inglewood, Carson, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Lomita, and the Palos Verdes Peninsula. See every South Bay city we serve.
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This page is attorney advertising and general information, not legal advice for any specific situation. Deadlines and outcomes are fact-specific; consult a licensed California attorney about your own circumstances. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
