An Amtrak train rolling from Richmond to Newport News, Virginia (VA), collided with a pickup truck in the town of Lanexa on Friday, February 25, 2011. The crash, which occurred at a grade crossing that had no gates or warning lights, left the pickup’s driver dead. It is the second fatal rail accident along the…
In his latest post to our firm’s Suffolk, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury Lawyers blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro notes that a woman who walked away injured from a grade crossing collision with a Norfolk Southern freight train in Suffolk, Virginia (VA) avoided the serious injuries or deaths that hundreds of others experience each…
Once again Norfolk Southern (NS)Rail Road Corp. is in the news because of on the job injuries. Two contract railroad workers were seriously injured Sunday in a railroad accident, trying to contain a rail car toxic chemical leak in Roanoke Virginia (VA). The worst part was that they weren’t wearing any protective equipment, a Norfolk…
A Norfolk Southern locomotive engineer reassigned to work as a conductor died from crush injuries on February 9, 2011, after he became trapped between rail cars he was switching in a yard in Kankakee, Illinois. Details of the accident in which the 43-year-old railroad employee lost his life are scant, but NS and the Federal…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Injury/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague John C. writes about a CSX conductor who nearly died after falling from a rail yard trestle into a freezing river in Covington, Virginia (VA). Randy notes that conductors face particular risks for being struck by trains and getting injured in falls…