Five people were injured in a Metrolink versus freight train collision in Rialto on November 20, 2008 – the second such accident in less then three months. The 11/20/08 crash was far less serious than the catastrophic head-on collision in Chatsworth in September that killed 25 and injured hundreds. According…
Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific — two large freight railroads that share tracks with Metrolink — have pledged to install advanced track safety measures by the year 2012, the Los Angeles Times reported on October 9, 2008. This decision comes about a month after the catastrophic Chatsworth Metrolink…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board of Directors unanimously voted on Thursday in favor of a series of actions meant to improve rail safety in Los Angeles County, according to this NBC News report. These measures include using $5 million from Metro funds to pay for an automatic train stop…
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on Thursday passed an emergency order banning all train operators from using cell phones and other personal electronic devices while on duty. According to a Sept. 18 Associated Press news report, the decision to ban came less than a week after the Chatsworth Metrolink…
The first claim in the Chatsworth Metrolink train crash came Monday from the family of Aida Magdaleno, a 19-year-old California State University, Northridge student, who was one of 25 people killed. According to recent news reports, the claim filed by Magdaleno’s parents and siblings alleged that Metrolink failed to use…
With the first claim filed in the catastrophic Chatsworth Metrolink train accident and many more to come, legal experts around the country are already wondering if it will test a 1997 U.S. law, which caps passengers’ damage claims in railroad accidents at $200 million. According to this Bloomberg News report,…
Metrolink officials, in a rare move Saturday, admitted blame for the gruesome Chatsworth train accident that occurred on September 12th. Their train engineer’s failure to stop at a red light signal was the reason the Simi Valley-bound Metrolink train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train, they said. Our…
Suggestions For Survivors and Families The Metrolink passenger train that crashed head-on into a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, California in the San Fernando Valley yesterday, September 12th, 2008, is still being searched this morning by rescue crews using heavy machinery in the hopes of finding more survivors. At…
About 4:30 p.m. today a Metrolink commuter train collided with a freight train in Chatsworth killing at least six people and injuring many more. According to various online and television news sources the Metrolink train was carrying as many as 350 rush hour passengers when it slammed into a freight…
A jury in Hinds County, Mississippi decided that the Illinois Central Railway must pay $1.97 million to a California couple for injuries they suffered four years ago in an Amtrak train accident in that state. According to this news report on Clarionledger.com,Sheila Doyle Lortz, 58, of Murphys, California, suffered back…