Well, that didn’ t take long. The New York Times is reporting that the Amtrak train that derailed on Tuesday night was traveling at least 100 miles an hour through a sharp curve in an urban area. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),…
So far, the answer is that authorities do not yet know. Here’s what we do know. This Amtrak train crash happened on a stretch of northbound track in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia near a bend in the track close to Frankford Avenue and…
Safety statistics for Utah's light rail train system TRAX recently released by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) show that while safety is improving, people continue to be their own worst…
The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) wants to outlaw pedestrians who are distracted around their TRAX and FrontRunner trains in an effort to protect such people from themselves. The move is in…
Image Courtesy Thomas23 The best way to deal with transportation disasters is to prevent them. With that goal in mind, the NC Department of Transportation is co-sponsoring a safety event for…
A tour bus carrying Asian tourists headed to Flushing, New York rear-ended a flatbed tractor trailer truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Monday, killing the bus driver, Mr. Bo Hua Tan, and…
There’s been a lot of press attention lately on the dangers of distracted driving. I and many of my Injury Board colleagues have also posted articles on the topic. Yesterday, the NTSB released…
A 15-year-old girl was struck and killed last week by a test train on an expansion line for the light rail system operated in the Salt Lake Valley by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It was…
According to Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond Times- Dispatch, renegade bus lines prove the need for government regulation. Check out his video blog citing the recent Virginia bus crash…
The Virginia bus crash last week that killed four and injured over 50 people has re-ignited the debate over a massive transportation spending bill that Congress passed in 2005 called SAFE-TEA-LU….
I really wanted to avoid blogging about last week’s Virginia bus crash, because I am reluctant to be lumped in with the lawyers who blog about tragedies to get cases. However, as the news about Sky…
Last August 9th, a bus carrying tourists destined for Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah left Interstate 15 near Cedar City and rolled. Three passengers died as a result of injuries…
