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Truck-train crash lawsuit gets $1.75M verdict : Railroad Lawyer News

May 5, 2011
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Grady County, OK — An Oklahoma jury awarded a railroad conductor $1.75 million in damages for serious personal injuries suffered in a train derailment accident.  The lawsuit was filed in Grady County, OK shortly after the 2009 railroad crossing accident.  The jury trial of the truck-train crash lawsuit lasted a week before the jury returned […]

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Wisconsin boy hit by train loses leg in pedestrian train accident

May 1, 2011
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Milwaukee, WI — An 11 year-old Wisconsin boy run over by a train lost his foot and part of his leg. The train did not stop after the accident, but continued down the railroad tracks. Milwaukee police say the train’s engineer had not been aware of the pedestrian/train accident and the boy’s tragic injury. Before […]

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3 Louisiana train crashes within 24 hours kill 2, injure 7

April 24, 2011
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Louisiana — Three separate train crashes within 24 hours left 2 people dead and seven inured in Louisiana on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.

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CA railroad crossing death was accident waiting to happen. Lawsuit?

April 18, 2011
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Palo Alto, CA — An Indiana woman died in a car train crash during rush hour at a railroad crossing in California on April 15. Local residents say it was a deadly accident waiting happen. The woman’s death followed dozens of near misses between cars and Caltrain at the Palo Alto crossing. Volunteer "Track Watch" […]

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Car-train crash kills man near Springfield, IL

April 15, 2011
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Springfield, IL — A 68 year-old man was killed in a railroad crossing accident when the car he was driving was hit by a Union Pacific train on Monday afternoon at about 4:30 P.M.. The man was crossing the railroad tracks at Hambuch Road in Auburn, South of Springfield, IL. After the initial impact, the […]

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Railroad injury lawyer appeals trial court ruling on crossing lawsuit

April 12, 2011
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Omaha, NE — A Nebraska woman rendered a paraplegic in a 2005 car and train railroad crossing accident has asked the Nebraska Supreme Court to overturn the dismissal of her case and order the trial court to consider whether the train sounded its warning horn before entering the rural crossing. The victim of of the […]

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Train-truck accident kills man in Idaho

April 6, 2011
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Bannock County, ID — A 40 year-old man is dead after a train-truck crash at a railroad crossing in Idaho man on March 31, 2011. The crash occurred shortly after 8:00 A.M. in Bannock County, ID when a commercial dump truck driver stopped on the tracks at a railroad crossing after the automatic crossing guard […]

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Iowa railroad crossing accident kills elderly couple stopped on tracks

March 3, 2011
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Mechanicsville, IA — An elderly couple was killed in a railroad crossing accident in Iowa when the truck in which they were traveling was hit by a train. They were stopped on the railroad tracks in their Pontiac Torrent SUV and hit by an eastbound Union Pacific train. The crash occurred at about 2:45 A.M. […]

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Train kills pedestrian in Missouri railroad crossing accident

February 22, 2011
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Camden County, MO — A 77 year-old Missouri woman was hit by a train and killed Tuesday morning in Camden County. The woman is reported to have been struck by a northbound BNSF freight train while trying to walk over and cross a set of two railroad tracks on MO Route T in Stoutland. The […]

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Texas man killed by train after driving around crossing gate

February 21, 2011
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San Antonio, TX — A railroad crossing accident claimed the life of a 25 year-old man in San Antonio, TX early Saturday morning. The man is reported to have driven around a crossing gate before being hit by an oncoming Amtrak passenger train. He was pronounced dead at the scene. None of the train passengers […]

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Kansas car/train crash victims identified

February 19, 2011
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Butler County, KS — Kansas investigators have identified the bodies of two people killed in a car/train railroad crossing accident in Butler County earlier this year.  The crossing where 32 year-old woman and her 15 month-old son were struck by a train was not marked with warning signs, gates or lights. The BNSF train that […]

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