Car Accident Lawyer in Burbank

What do Burbank’s crash figures show for car accidents?

In the California Office of Traffic Safety rankings for 2023, where rank 1 is the worst in the group, Burbank placed 17th of 62 cities its size for people killed and injured in traffic, with 546 victims. Its other driving categories sit nearer the middle: speed-related collisions 32nd of 62, nighttime 42nd of 62 and hit and run 36th of 62. The rankings are rate-based, adjusted for population and daily vehicle miles travelled, so they compare Burbank with cities its own size rather than saying it has California’s highest raw counts. On driving generally Burbank is a middling city in its group rather than a city in crisis, and we are not going to describe it as one.

The useful layer is the City’s own. The Safer Streets Burbank Action Plan, adopted by the City Council on 12 August 2025 by Resolution No. 25-29,639, examined 3,835 collisions on local Burbank roadways from 2018 to 2022, of which 2,123 caused an injury and 105 killed or seriously injured somebody. It puts 80 percent of those severe outcomes on just 16 percent of the roadway network, which Burbank calls its Focus Network, and designates nine priority corridors on Glenoaks Boulevard, Victory Boulevard, Alameda Avenue, Hollywood Way, Vanowen Street, San Fernando Boulevard, Buena Vista Street and Olive Avenue. Its first named trend is broadside, or T-bone, collisions at signalised and side-street stop-controlled intersections, and it finds intersections the most common crash site in Burbank across every mode. Burbank Police logged 788 collisions in 2025, and broadside was again the largest type at 261. If your collision happened at a junction on one of those corridors, the City has documented the risk there in a plan it adopted by resolution. That does not decide a case, but it changes the starting position on what was known.

Burbank runs its own police department rather than relying on the Sheriff, so a City-street collision is a Burbank Police matter. Reports are sold online through the LexisNexis eCrash portal with a convenience fee added, and the Department asks you to allow at least four days from the collision before buying one. They are also available at the Records Bureau counter at 200 N. Third Street, with a catch: the City publishes two different counter fees on two pages of its own police department website, $20.00 and $15. We are not going to pick one. Confirm the current figure with the Department on (818) 238-3000. Traffic camera footage is a separate request again, to City Traffic Engineering on (818) 238-3953. Interstate 5 runs through Burbank, and State Routes 134 and 170 cross this part of the Valley, all of them defined by the Legislature rather than by the City. A collision on a state highway is normally a California Highway Patrol matter on a state-owned roadway, which changes who holds the report and who the defendant is.

Where is a Burbank car accident case filed, and what are the deadlines?

The deadlines split. Against another driver you generally have two years from the date of injury under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1. Where a public entity is in the frame, including the City of Burbank or a BurbankBus vehicle, Government Code section 911.2 requires a written claim within six months and the shorter deadline governs. Burbank’s Claim for Damages goes to the City Clerk at P.O. Box 6459, Burbank, CA 91510, and the City also accepts it by email, which many cities do not. California is a pure comparative fault state throughout, so a share of the blame reduces what you recover rather than ending the claim. Local Rule 2.3(a)(1)(A), effective 1 January 2026, sends the case to the judicial district where the incident arose, which for Burbank is the North Central District, at the Burbank or Glendale courthouse.

More on local practice on the Burbank personal injury page, and on the law itself on the Los Angeles car accident page. The other collision types with Burbank’s own published figures: pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents and motorcycle accidents. Mass tort claims are taken on for Burbank residents as well, and those are set out on the mass torts page.