When you live somewhere long enough you become a local. When you’re a local you know of great spots to eat, to hangout and shortcuts around town. A local Longwood, Florida (FL) man tried to take one such shortcut while on his way to pick up a pizza. Unfortunately this shortcut was across railroad tracks…
A community college in northern Texas is grieving this week after four players on its women’s softball team died when a tractor trailer crossed the median on I-35 and slammed into their team bus. The wreck happened near Davis, Oklahoma late in the evening of Sept. 26, and the driver’s side of the North Central…
1889 was the first year in which data about railroad accidents and injuries was collected. During that year 1,972 railroad workers lost their lives on the job which equates to one out of every 375 employees. Last year there were 15 fatal railroad accidents that took the lives of employees. The acting Chairman of the…
The transportation safety board in Canada issued a 200 page report in August that detailed the breakdown and enforcement of Canadian national rail safety regulations that led to the deaths of 47 people in the oil train derailment disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec in July 2013. The report detailed 18 causes and contributing factors where…
Our firm writes daily about the tragic accidents that happen on the roads outside our back doors in Virginia, but Virginia residents aren’t just at risk of being in a car accident in Virginia. Virginians travel to neighboring states all the time and are sometimes in serious or even fatal car accidents far from home….