By Randy Appleton, Railroad Crossing Injury Victim’s Attorney

In his latest blog post to our firms Carolina personal injury attorneys’ website, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on a railroad crossing accident in which an elderly couple suffered serious injuries when their pickup truck struck an RJ Corman freight train in Kentucky (KY). The crossing on tracks owned by CSX has no gates, and signal lights were not working at 2 am, when the wreck occurred. To read more about this case and Rick’s thoughts on why railroads have to improve grade crossing safety, click over to “Elderly Couple Seriously Injured in Collision With Stopped Train at Unmarked Crossing in Versailles, KY.”

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About the Editors: The Virginia- and Carolina-based attorneys at Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton have long histories of representing railroad workers in FELA and other railroad injury cases and of helping victims of rail crossing accidents. Lawyers at our firm have served as chairmen of the railroad section of the American Association for Justice, the largest national victim’s injury attorney organization, and one of our attorneys wrote a major legal encyclopedia section on railroad safety litigation. Check out our railroad injury case results to see for yourself. Be sure to get your free reports about railroad injury, disease and wrongful death FELA cases: The Do’s and Don’ts When Injured at a Railroad — Yours FELA Rights and What Railroad Claim Agents Won’t Tell You (But You Must Know). Also, our railroad injury lawyers proudly moderate the Yardlimits Railroad Community Forum and donate to the Fallen Brother Fund.