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Downey Car Accident Lawyers & Attorneys
Auto accident and personal injury lawyers for Downey drivers, passengers and pedestrians.
You're hurt. The insurance company is already working — to pay you less. A Downey car accident attorney at Robert Hindin & Associates takes those calls instead. The firm has represented injured people in California since 1975 and has never represented an insurance company. Free consultation. No fees unless we win.
- No fees unless we win
- Open 24/7 — English and Spanish
- Over $500 million won
- 5.0 from 144 Google reviews
What to say when you call
- When and where the crash happened
- Where it hurts, even if it seems minor
- Whether you have talked to an insurance company
That is it. We ask the rest.
Kyle Hindin · Handles these cases personally · USC · Chapman Law · Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2022–2026
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Serving Downey and the 5 / 605 / 105.
The store cameras along Firestone Boulevard point at the street, and most of them overwrite within the week.
One real office: 11400 W Olympic Blvd, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90064 · (310) 564-7911
Car accidents in Downey: where they happen and what to do first
- Crash hotspots: the 5/605 interchange, Firestone Boulevard at Lakewood Boulevard, Imperial Highway at Paramount Boulevard, and the 105 at Lakewood Boulevard.
- Who took the report: On Downey streets, the Downey Police Department takes the collision report; the people involved can request a copy from its records unit. Crashes on the freeway are handled by the California Highway Patrol; request that report from the CHP area office that responded (form CHP 190). Or let us request it for you.
- Nearest emergency rooms: PIH Health Downey Hospital and Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center.
- Why it matters: The business cameras along Firestone and Lakewood that caught your crash usually record over themselves within a week, so call before that footage is gone.
Ask us about our rental car
A crash in Downey usually leaves you without a car right when you need one most, for doctor visits, for work, for the kids. If your car is in the shop or was totaled, ask us about a rental car while the property damage claim is sorted out. We deal with the insurance company over the vehicle too, so you are not chasing an adjuster for a loaner on top of everything else.
Types of cases our Downey car accident attorneys represent
Every crash is different. What they have in common is an adjuster deciding what your injury is worth before you have said a word. These are the Downey cases we handle most.
Red light accidents
The other driver says the light was yellow. The intersection camera says otherwise — for about a week, until it is overwritten. We send preservation letters the day you call, then pull the signal timing and any business camera pointed at that corner.
Car crashes involving drunk drivers
A DUI arrest is not the same as your civil claim, and the criminal case will not pay your bills. We run both tracks: the police investigation and, where the facts support it, a claim against the bar or restaurant that overserved the driver under California's dram shop rules. Hit and run? If the driver fled and is never found, your own uninsured motorist coverage can still pay, and we open that claim while the search goes on.
Rear-end accidents
The most common crash and the most underpaid. Insurers concede fault, then argue the impact was too minor to hurt anyone. Photographs of a bumper are not a medical opinion, and we make them prove that with a doctor instead of a claims note.
Ride share accidents
Uber and Lyft carry up to $1,000,000 in coverage, but only when the app was in the right state at the moment of impact. Whether you were the passenger, the driver, or in the other car, the first job is proving which policy was live — and that record sits with the company, not with you.
Chain reaction auto accidents
Three, four, five cars on the 405 or the 710, and every insurer blaming the car behind. These cases are won by identifying every policy and reconstructing the order of impacts early, before each carrier settles into its story.
Truck and commercial vehicle accidents
A big rig on the 710, a delivery van, a city bus. When the other vehicle belongs to a company, there is a fleet insurer behind it, and sometimes a government agency with a six-month claim deadline. Their investigators move within hours, and driver logs and the truck’s electronic data can disappear. We send preservation demands right away and identify every policy, including the employer’s.
Motorcycle, pedestrian and bicycle crashes
With no car door between you and the other vehicle, the injuries are worse and the blame starts sooner. The adjuster will say the rider was speeding, the pedestrian was outside the crosswalk, the cyclist came out of nowhere. “I didn’t see them” is an admission, not a defense, and California lets you recover even if you were partly at fault.
Car accident attorneys in Downey, CA open 24 hours
Crashes do not keep office hours. Neither do we. You can reach a real person about your Downey crash at any hour, any day — nights, weekends and holidays included — in English or in Spanish. Not a recording that promises a callback, and not a chatbot. A person who takes down what happened and gets a lawyer moving on it.
That matters more than it sounds. The evidence that decides these cases — intersection video, store cameras, a witness who still remembers the light — has a shelf life measured in days. The insurance company's adjuster is often assigned within hours of the crash. Calling at 11pm on a Saturday instead of Monday morning can be the difference between having that footage and arguing without it.
Call now — (310) 564-7911Talk to a real person right now.
24/7, English and Spanish. Free case review. No fee unless we win.
Why turn to a car accident attorney in Downey after a crash
Insurance companies profit when you take less. You are not obligated to hire anyone, and plenty of small claims resolve fine without a lawyer. Here is what changes when you do have one.
No fees unless we win
No retainer, no hourly bill, nothing out of your pocket. We front every case cost — filing fees, medical records, accident reconstruction, expert witnesses — and we are paid a percentage only if we recover money for you. If we do not win, you do not owe us a fee.
Over $500 million won
More than $500 million recovered for injured people across five decades of California practice. In one recent case the insurance company's first and best offer was $85,000. After Kyle Hindin litigated it, the case resolved for $375,000. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
We fight to get you paid while you recover
Medical bills do not wait for a settlement. We help you get treatment on a lien so you can see a doctor without paying up front, deal with the hospital and the health plan on billing, and keep the adjuster's calls away from you entirely. Your job is the physical therapy. Ours is everything else.
Award winning accident attorneys serving Downey and all of Los Angeles County
Kyle Hindin has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2022 through 2026 and is a member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles. Robert Hindin founded the firm and has been licensed in California since 1975. We work out of one real office in West Los Angeles — 11400 W Olympic Blvd, Suite 200 — and take cases across Downey and the whole of Los Angeles County.
Free car accident consultations
The consultation costs nothing and obligates you to nothing. Tell us what happened and we will tell you straight whether you have a case, what it is likely worth, and what the deadlines are. If you do not need a lawyer, we will say so.
The deadlines that decide your case
In California you generally have two years from the date of the crash to file suit. If a city bus, a county vehicle or any government agency is involved, you may have as little as six months to file a government claim — miss that and the case can end before it starts.
The practical clock is much faster. Camera footage is overwritten in days. Witnesses stop returning calls. The other driver's story firms up after they speak to their own insurer. And if you wait to see a doctor, the gap between the crash and your first visit becomes the adjuster's main argument that you were not really hurt.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different.
Schedule a free consultation with our Downey car accident attorneys
Two fields and a real person calls you back. Or call (310) 564-7911 and skip the form. Free consultation, no obligation, and no fees unless we win.
- A free case review from a lawyer — not a call center
- Every insurance call handled for you, starting now
- Every case cost fronted by the firm — filings, records, experts
- Letters out to preserve camera footage before it's erased
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — nights, weekends and holidays included. English and Spanish intake at any hour. A person answers, not a machine.
Free consultation. We call you.
Two fields. A real person calls you back. No fee unless we win.
★ 5.0/5 · 144 Google reviews Read all 144 reviews on Google
Call now — free case review(310) 564-7911or leave your number
Confidential · No obligation · No fee unless we win
Talk to a real person right now.
24/7, English and Spanish. Free case review. No fee unless we win.
What clients say
Real Google reviews, as written.
Kyle, Abby, and Ismael… All we had to do was sign the initial paperwork, and they did everything else. They got us to a doctor the very next day… dealt with the insurance so that we didn’t have to.
They made me feel like family… I was injured and trying to recover, and they took care of both me and my wife. They fought for us.
Kyle and Corbin were extremely helpful during a very vulnerable time… made sure the stress load was taken off of me as I was trying to recover.