Hit Head-on By A Car Fleeing Police In Vallejo, Ca In 2020. Brain Injury, Claim Stalled For Years, City Never Gave Me The Report. Is It Too Late, And Who Helps?

In January 2020, overnight, I was driving under 10 mph in Vallejo, California when a juvenile driver being chased by Vallejo police at high speed through a residential area hit me head-on. My car was totaled. I have a frontal lobe brain injury, an aneurysm behind my eyes that was surgically treated in September 2024, neck and back injuries, and ongoing memory and executive function problems that make paperwork and deadlines very hard. I was homeless for about two years afterward.

My insurer's notes from the time say the other car was running from police. The City has never given me the incident report or any pursuit records, and I don't know whether it was recorded as a pursuit or as a hit and run.

My claim with the California Victim Compensation Board has stalled for years. The representative assigned to it works inside the Vallejo courthouse, and I was told over the phone that my requests were another office's jurisdiction. Almost all of this was verbal, so I have little on paper from 2020 to 2024. I have prepared a late claim against the City but have not filed it.

Location: California (Vallejo / Solano County)

My questions:

1. Because of my injury, can I still file a claim against the city this many years later, and what evidence helped others?

2. What kind of attorney takes a pursuit-crash case like this, and what do they want to see first?

3. How do I get the report and the pursuit records the city won't release?

4. Who can I go to when a state compensation claim is stuck?

I have the paperwork and can share it with an attorney. Thank you for any direction.