By Rick Shapiro, Carolina Railroad Crossing Accident Victim’s Attorney

In his latest blog post to our Carolina personal injury attorneys’ website, my colleague Randy Appleton expresses concern that deaths at U.S. railroad crossings and on passenger and freight trains increased during 2010. Randy urges “every company, government official, driver and pedestrian … to do everything they can to decrease the possibility of collisions at crossings and on tracks.” To read more, click over to “Railroad Crossing, Train Accidents Take More Lives in 2010.”

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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.