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Railroad Accident Deaths

Philadelphia Amtrak train crash was preventable

May 13, 2015
Amtrak Crash Attorney

The Amtrak train derailment this week near Philadelphia was at least the eighth derailment this year in North America and appears to have been preventable. The train’s data recorders, the equivalent of an airline black box, have been recovered and shed light on how the accident occurred. It now is believed that the train was […]

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Railroad crossing accident causes 4 deaths in Illinois

November 3, 2014
Illinois Train Crash Attorney

Four members of a Greenville, Illinois, family were killed at a railroad crossing in Vandalia when their SUV was hit by a freight train.  The accident happened on Thursday, October 30, as a mother and her four children were headed to a Halloween parade a block away from the crossing. The youngest child survived his […]

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Two truck v. train crashes in TN within 24 hours, one death

April 14, 2014
Tennessee Train Accident Lawyer

In Chattanooga, Tennessee, two truck versus train accidents occurred within 24 hours. The first accident was on the evening of Wednesday, April 2, 2014, when a train hit and killed an 80 year old man driving his pickup truck. The second occurred four miles north on Thursday morning between an 18 wheeler and a train. […]

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Teen on bicycle dies in California railroad crossing crash

January 22, 2014
California Train Crossing Lawyer

On Friday morning, January 7, 2014, a 14 year-old girl was struck and killed by a VTA light-rail train in San Jose, California. The accident occurred at about 7:30 AM as the teenager, Danika Garcia, was riding her bicycle on her way to school. Witnesses at the scene of the crash stated that one of […]

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Indiana man files lawsuit for railroad crossing death of wife and son

May 2, 2013
Indiana Train Crash Attorney

A wrongful death lawsuit claims that several factors caused or contributed to a deadly railroad crossing accident in Montpelier, Indiana. A pregnant woman and her infant son were hit and killed by a Norfolk Southern Railway train on September 3, 2011. The lawsuit, filed in Blackford County, Indiana by lawyers for the woman’s husband, alleges […]

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Pedestrian death at Pacific, MO railroad crossing ruled accident

March 19, 2013
Amtrak Train Crossing Accident

A pedestrian recently was struck and killed by Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner 316 train in Pacific, Missouri. The death scene, near the Fourth Street crossing of the Union Pacific railroad tracks, has been the site of three deaths since 2005; a fourth accident at the same site was nonfatal.  On March 6, 2013, at approximately 8:45 P.M., […]

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Railroad crossing gates to be put at site of deaths in CT

February 26, 2013
Train Crossing Attorney/Lawyer

Two more people were killed, two seriously injured and hospitalized, at the same railroad crossing that has been the site of previous train collisions in Redding, Connecticut (CT). Tragically, protective gates have yet to be been installed. The intersection on Long Ridge Road was described to reporters by by Dottie DeLuca, an area business owner, […]

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Railroad crossing accident in Raleigh, NC causes woman’s death

February 11, 2013
Amtrak Train Crossing Accident

A recent railroad crossing accident in Raleigh, NC resulted in the death of a woman from Fuquay-Varina, NC.  Lynette Renee Fowler, 42, was driving a 1999 Chevrolet SUV when she was struck by an Amtrak train near downtown Raleigh. She was thrown from her truck on impact  and pronounced dead at the scene. There were […]

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Train hits parade float at Texas crossing, 4 dead and 17 injured

November 20, 2012
Texas Train Crash Midland, TX

A Union Pacific freight train struck a parade float carrying wounded veterans and their families on Thursday, November 15, killing four people and injuring 17 others. The decorated flatbed truck was trying to get through a railroad crossing in the West Texas town of Midland, on its way to an honorary banquet. According to witnesses […]

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Boy, 14, hit and killed by train near St. Louis in Kirkwood, MO

May 31, 2012
Missouri (MO) Train Accident Attorney

A 14-year-old boy was hit and killed by an Amtrak passenger train near Kirkwood, MO, late Wednesday. Cameron Vennard was walking across the railroad tracks toward the downtown area of the St. Louis suburb when the train came around a bend, heading west to Kansas City. The accident happened in a wooded area, not near […]

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Sons file lawsuit for death of mother in IL car-train crash

March 30, 2012
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A wrongful death lawsuit claims that crossing gates and warning lights were not working properly at a railroad crossing where a mother of three from Granite City was hit and killed by an Amtrak train on February 28, 2012. The lawsuit, filed in Madison County, Illinois on behalf of the the woman’s three sons, claims […]

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