A DC Metro track maintenance workers died Sunday night after being struck by a gravel spreader. The worker, identified by the Washington Post as 60-year-old Michael Nash, was clearing excess gravel from electronic switches and sensors embedded in the rails between the Dunn Loring and Vienna stations at the time of the fatal accident. Nash’s…
On September 2, 2007, Diane McCabe came into the hospital prepared for a vaginal delivery of her second child. After 10 hours of labor, her obstetrician opted for a caesarean section. During the procedure, Diane’s uterine arteries were cut. It was claimed that the obstetrician and the hospital’s attending physician had disagreements over how to…
Any trucking company that handles goods that are involved in interstate commerce must comply with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. Carriers from Canada and Mexico are included in these regulations. Some of these regulations require the trucking company to save documents that may prove liability in a collision. This would make most tractor-trailer cases all…
Recently, a man visiting North Carolina ran off the road and into the trees just after coming from the airport. The car crash occurred in Morrisville, North Carolina (N.C.) after the traveler had just arrived at Raleigh-Durham International Airport drove off N.C. Highway 54 and into some trees overnight Raleigh police reported. The Alabama man…
The head of the U.S. Federal Transit Administration told a group of senators last Wednesday that his agency needed more authority to keep commuters safe when they ride buses, subways and light rail trains across the nation. Recently confirmed FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff informed members of the Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development…