Pedestrian Accident Lawyer in Burbank

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

In the California Office of Traffic Safety rankings for 2023, where rank 1 is the worst in the group, Burbank ranked 6th of 62 cities its size for pedestrians aged 65 and over killed or injured, with 9 victims. For pedestrians of all ages it ranked 11th of 62, with 47 victims, against 17th of 62 for traffic victims overall. Walking is where Burbank does worse than its own general record, and older people walking is where it does worst. Pedestrians under 15 ranked 50th of 62, nearer the better end. Neighbouring Pasadena ranked 1st of 62 in that same older-pedestrian category and Glendale 2nd, so this is a feature of the area rather than a blip in one city. 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.

The City’s own plan says the same thing a different way. The Safer Streets Burbank Action Plan, adopted on 12 August 2025 by Resolution No. 25-29,639, found that pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists were involved in just 24 percent of Burbank’s injury collisions between 2018 and 2022 but 64 percent of the collisions that killed or seriously injured somebody. Among the key trends it names is pedestrian collisions involving pedestrians crossing in a crosswalk, and it reports that 80 percent of fatal and serious injury crashes happen on the 16 percent of streets it calls the Focus Network, with nine priority corridors on Glenoaks Boulevard, Victory Boulevard, Alameda Avenue, Hollywood Way, Vanowen Street, San Fernando Boulevard, Buena Vista Street and Olive Avenue. Burbank Police logged 67 pedestrian collisions in 2025 and 18 in the first five months of 2026, down 38 percent on the same period. Lawful crossings are where most of this happens, which matters because a lawful crossing is also the first thing a driver’s insurer disputes.

Burbank runs its own police department, so a pedestrian collision on a City street is investigated by Burbank Police and the report comes from them, bought online through the LexisNexis eCrash portal at least four days after the collision or collected at the Records Bureau counter at 200 N. Third Street. Confirm the counter fee on (818) 238-3000 before you go: the City publishes two different figures, $20.00 and $15, on two pages of its own police department website, and we are not going to choose between them. Signal timing and crossing markings decide most pedestrian cases, and camera footage is a separate request again, to City Traffic Engineering on (818) 238-3953. Where the crossing itself is the problem, a worn marking, an obstructed sight line or a signal phase too short for an older person on foot, the defendant may be the City rather than the driver. Interstate 5 and the state routes across this part of the Valley belong to the state rather than to Burbank, and a collision there is normally a California Highway Patrol matter.

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

That choice of defendant sets the clock. Against a driver you generally have two years from the date of injury under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1. Against 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 is filed with 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, so being found partly responsible reduces a recovery rather than ending it. Local Rule 2.3(a)(1)(A), effective 1 January 2026, puts the case in 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 pedestrian accident page. The other collision types with Burbank’s own published figures: car 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.