Recent Posts in Train Accidents Category
Posted on Jan 20, 2012 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
This week news sources reported that police have determined that a man struck by a train had caused his death. Video surveillance shows the man running towards the train and jumping into its path at ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Police in Los Angeles, California were busy last Friday when a passenger train was struck by a vehicle. According to the police reports, the vehicle drove in front of the train and flipped over. The ...
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Posted on Nov 12, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Officers in Northern Santa Fe have yet to identify a man struck and killed by a passenger train last week. The man, believed to be in his fifties, was trespassing on local train tracks when he was ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
When two passenger trains crashed in Northern California last week, 18 people were injured. According to the responding fire department, a mixture of crew and staff members was transported to area ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Officials are still investigating a truck accident that happened last week in Los Angeles County. Reports indicate that the tanker truck was driving in L.A. when it was struck by a freight train. An ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Survivors and family members of those lost in a tragic train accident gathered last week to remember and grieve together. The train accident, which happened three years ago, took the lives of 25 ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
While nobody was injured when a train struck a car last week in Los Angeles, traffic was delayed for several hours. According to the local authorities, a vehicle attempted to cross the tracks in front ...
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Posted on Aug 24, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
After losing her husband due to a train accident , a widow has decided to file a wrongful death lawsuit. On October 9, 2010, the widow's 32-year-old husband was seen walking along the tracks by ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
After her son lost his life while attempting to board a train in 2009, a distraught mother decided to take legal action. The woman sued, and won, her case against a leading transportation provider in ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge who is overhearing the lawsuit regarding the train accident of September 12, 2008 made his final decision. The commuter train crash took the lives of 122 ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
After three days of investigating the train accident just outside of Reno, investigators are far from getting the answers they need. According to Earl Weener, a member of the National Transportation ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Even though the train hit her car, the driver now faces a repair bill for damages done to the train. According to a spokesman for Metro-North, it could take weeks to determine the amount of damage ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Although being involved in a train accident is rare, it is possible and has happened before in the past. In 2008 a commuter train scraped along a freight train as it was heading east of Los Angeles . ...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Even those who operate our public transport vehicles are guilty of texting while driving, and now one operator could lose her job for it. When a passenger on a Muni bus noticed the driver texting ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Tragedy struck in San Diego when a man was unable to get out of the path of a northbound Amtrak train last week. According to the Sheriff's Department the accident happened around 6 p.m. The train was ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Although more than 100 hundred were injured when a passenger train slammed head-on into a freight train 2.5 years ago, just two of these testimonies were graphic enough for the courtroom last week. ...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Deputy Tony Miller was on the scene immediately when a man walked onto the train tracks near Los Angeles and died last week. Although Miller has been patrolling the busy tracks for less than a week, ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A Blue Line train in South Los Angeles hit a passenger car on Thursday night, injuring seven people in the in the crash. All seven people were treated at the scene of the accident, with only two ...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
Officials are investigating the case of a pedestrian that was hit and killed by a Metrolink train on Monday. Just after 5 PM as the train was passing through the intersection of 8th Street and N. ...
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Posted on Mar 26, 2010 By Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus
A train accident involving a Metrolink and maintenance truck in the San Gabriel Valley has led to several injuries and one death. The accident occurred on March 20 when a Metrolink train collided with ...
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