Chicago train crash victim receives $29.5 million jury verdict!
Cook County jury verdict over $29.5 million to Chicago commuter train crash victim. Chicago, IL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Associated Press reported a 28 year-old Chicago woman received over $29.5 million jury verdict Friday. Renea Poppel sued Metra after one of its commuter trains derailed in September 2005 killing two people and injuring more than 100 commuters on […]
Staten Island train kills man at Pleasant Plains station!
New York Transit trains hits and kills man on Pleasant Plains tracks. JusticeNewsFlash.com new for New York personal injury lawyers. New York, NY (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–New York City Transit Authority had to suspend train service this morning for about one hour between Prince’s Bay and Tottenville because a man was killed on the tracks this morning. Police […]
2 killed in separate Massachusetts train accidents
1 man hit and killed by Red Line train and 1 man hit and killed by Fitchburg commuter. Boston, MA (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Boston Globe reported on Friday, two pedestrian men were hit and killed by two different Massachusetts Bay Commuter Rail (MBCR) trains less than eight hours apart. Authorities are investigating the two train accident fatalities. […]
South Shore commuter train crashes car killing 16 year-old
New Prairie High School teen passenger dies in commuter train crash. South Bend, IN (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–LaPorte County WSBT news reported a fatal South Shore commuter train crash, on LaPorte County Line Road 900 East near 700 close to Hudson Lake on Saturday, has left a 16 year-old passenger dead and two injured. According to police, the […]
Two Georgia trains plus dump truck crash leaves driver dead
West Palm Beach personal injury claims litigators bring news. West Sanvannah freight train crashes dump truck and damages Amtrak train. West Palm Beach, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Associated Press reported Friday a freight train collided with a dump truck at the entrance to a water treatment plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia west of Savannah. The truck and […]
Oakland reporter dies after Metro Muni train accident
Oakland Tribune reporter dies after being struck by an N-Judah train. Report by San Francisco personal injury lawyer San Francisco, CA (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–On February 8, 2009, 70 year old tenured Oakland Tribune reporter, William Brand, was stuck by the N-Judah train while he was walking near Second and King streets. The recently retired reported died from […]
Harrisburg tractor trailer driver criminally charged-passenger train wreck
Cabarrus County Sheriff charges truck driver in Amtrak passenger train crash. Charlotte, NC (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Office criminally charged the driver of a tractor trailer with several violations in the Amtrak passenger train wreck last Wednesday. Frank White Jr., the driver of the truck, abandoned his loaded tractor trailer on railroad crossing tracks last […]
LA commuter train crash initiates federal safety board hearing
Los Angeles Metrolink train crash causes two day NTSB hearing in March. Los Angeles, CA (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Metrolink commuter rail crash which killed 25 people and injured 135 others will be reviewed in a two day public hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) www.ntsb.gov beginning in March. The Los Angeles Times reported, on Tuesday, […]
Bakersfield mother killed by train saves 6 children
Freight train slammed into mother of six and her car last weekend in Kern County. Bakersfield mother dies while saving six children at rail road crossing. San Francisco, CA (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–California Highway Patrol (CHP) reported a Bakersfield mother of four was killed at a rail road crossing last weekend. Lourdes Ruiz, 41, of Bakersfield, California was […]
Oklahoma assistant football coach dies when struck by train at railroad crossing
An Oklahoma football coach was killed Monday night in a car crash involving a train. The railroad crossing reportedly does not have lights or a gate. December 30, 2008, Dallas, TX (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Justice railroad crossing news reporters and train lawyers report a fatal railroad crossing accident in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) reports Jeff Nye, […]