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Major Investigative Report on railroad-crossing accident reporting
Category: Other Railroad Accidents
The New York Times published a major expose relating to questionable tactics by some of the nation's railroads in railroad-crossing incidents, many involving deaths. On July 11, 2004, Walt Bogdanich, a New York Times reporter, published an article relating to deaths at rail crossings, missing evidence, and silence. The article specifically revealed that Union Pacific, CSX, and several other railroads, have broken federal rules by failing to promptly report hundreds of fatal accidents--71 of them during calendar year 2003.
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Rail-highway crossing safety questioned
Category: Train Accidents
In November 2005, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Transportation released an audit of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) oversight of railroad-highway-roadway crossing accidents. The audit had some interesting findings, revealing the lax regulatory oversight of rail-crossing safety:
FELA and Railroad Injury Overview
Category: FELA News
Welcome to our blog dedicated to railroad injuries and the Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA), where you can find all railroad law news and information. This site stemmed from a couple of posts on our Virginia Beach Personal Injury Law blog, which we hope provides helpful information as well.
See our train and railroad accident overview as well as an indictment of the Federal Rail Safety Act.
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