Local Law Firms Home > Personal Injury Overview > Amputation Limb Injury > Train Accidents Train accidents occur every 90 minutes throughout the country. Train accidents often lead to death or severe injuries, such as amputations. This is due to the sheer size and force of the train when it crashes. Train accidents involve another train, a vehicle, or a derailment. Train accidents may be the result of defective equipment, ill-marked railroad crossings, or improperly loaded trains. If you or someone you care about has been in a train accident that resulted in an amputation, our personal injury lawyers are available to help you get the compensation you need. Contact a personal injury attorney in your area today to review your case. Possible causes of a train accident include:
Train accidents can easily cause amputation injuries due to the extreme nature of the accident. Trains weigh thousands of pounds and are incapable of stopping quickly. Passenger vehicles can easily be mangled or crushed when hit by a train. An arm or leg could easily get trapped inside the wrecked vehicle or crushed by the metal of the car. Additionally, due to the likely extreme damage to the vehicle, there were be an abundance of broken and twisted metal, as well as broken glass at a train accident. These factors can also result to an amputation injury. Many train accidents are caused by poorly marked train tracks. Many railroad crossings throughout the country have no gates or lights because the flow of traffic in that area is not considered enough to warrant the expense. However, this may lead to a vehicle attempting to cross the tracks in front of an oncoming train. These train accidents may also be the result of broken or malfunctioning railroad crossing lights or gates. Have you or someone you care about been injured in a train accident that caused an amputation? If so, our personal injury lawyers are available to help you get compensated for your injuries. Contact a personal injury lawyer in your area today to get started. Did you know? There are over 600 railroads crisscrossing across the country. These rails involve hundreds of thousands of miles of tracks, and thousands of railroad crossings. Each crossing presents the possibility of an accident between a train and a vehicle crossing the tracks.
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