What happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) recently granted a two-year award of $1 million to a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, Duke University, the University of Vermont, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Penn State Altoona. The purpose of the research is to develop an automated system…
A Page County, Virginia (VA), man lost his life in the town of Bealton when the car he was driving was hit by an Amtrak passenger train on the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2012. Police identified the deceased man as James E. Wood and described the scene of the deadly accident as a private uncontrolled…
Three North Carolina veterans, along with a fourth veteran from Texas, were killed when the Veteran’s Day parade float they were riding on was slammed into by a train traveling at 60 mph. The NTSB is investigating. For more details, read here. . . 3 North Carolina Heroes Killed in Texas Train Crash
As a personal injury lawyer practicing in Virginia (VA), I was actually handling a couple of lung cancer cases for clients when tragedy struck close to home.
In a new post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyer Blog, attorneys with Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp& Duffan report on an on-the-job death for a man working on a parked locomotive. To read more, click over to “Norfolk Southern Worker Dies After Falling From Engine in Macon, GA.” EJL