Are railroads frequently negligent?
There are many different departments that are supposed to offer safety oversight over our railroads. Unfortunately, any one of them can fail. A railroad accident can be caused by: • an oversight in the Railroad Operation Department that controls track movement • a conductor who has not been adequately trained or is inexperienced • negligent firemen or brakeman • negligent public projects engineers or road foreman of engines • civil engineering departments that failed to implement rail crossings correctly or may have designed defective railroad crossings • a railroad company that does not follow Federal Railroad Administration regulations • defective products Considering all that can go wrong, it is imperative that our skilled investigators get to work immediately to determine the exact cause of the collision. The railroad and federal and local agencies will dispatch investigators to the scene right away. The sooner you have a team of railroad accident lawyers working for you, the bette
