Posts tagged train

• Restraints in Nursing Homes

  Karl Truman | December 01, 2010 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsLouisville, KY Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  What is the definition of a restraint and what are safe alternatives to restraints? Many times families want their loves ones restrained in a nursing home because they had restraints in the...

• Kiesel Takes Action Against Metrolink

  Daryl T. Dixon | September 16, 2008 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Paul Kiesel, of Kiesel, Boucher, and Larson, is filing a lawsuit against Metrolink for the devastating crash that occurred last Friday. The collision, involving a Metrolink commuter train and a...

• Metrolink Train Collision Lawsuit

  Daryl T. Dixon | September 16, 2008 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Grieving parents of a Metrolink Train Collision Victim, Aida Magdaleno, are filing a lawsuit against the company after the operator ran a red light at 42 miles an hour, crashing into a Union Pacific...

• Illinois Train Accident Ends With Death of a Man in a Wheelchair

  Daryl T. Dixon | May 13, 2008 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An Illinois Train Accident ended in tragedy on Tuesday in Carbondale. The man was in a wheelchair when he was attempting to cross the Railroad Tracks. Authorities say that the man attempted to...

• Illinois Man Hit By a Train In Carbondale

  Daryl T. Dixon | May 13, 2008 10:17 PM | 0 CommentsPaducah, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  A Carbondale Illinois Man has been hit by a Train today. The man was in a wheelchair and was attempting to cross Train Tracks. WPSD TV in Paducah Kentucky is reporting that there were crossing...

• Fiery Train Derailment Caused By Bad Bolt

  Lee Coleman | April 04, 2007 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The CSX train derailment in Bullitt County in January was caused by a broken bolt on a freight car. The broken bolt caused the car not to steer properly and caused it to jump the track on a curve near Brooks, Ky. The freight car is owned by a CSX customer but the railroad is responsible for the maintenance and safe operation of it. The crash forced an estimated 500 people from their homes. Some...

• Families Still Displaced 6 Weeks After CSX Train Wreck

  Lee Coleman | February 26, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Six weeks later after the train derailment in Brooks, KY, more than a dozen families are still not in their homes. Some say they aren't going back. Some wonder what the appraisal of their homes will be as no one else wants to move there either. Families living in hotels, it's become the normal for fast food since there is no kitchens for some. Children missing the privacy of their own rooms....

• Train Accident Cost Clean Up To Be Steep

  Lee Coleman | February 02, 2007 2:28 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The train derailment two weeks ago in Brooks, Kentucky still leaves about 15 families locked out of their homes. Some utilities have still not been restored such as gas and water to some of the homes and the Environmental Protection Agency says there is so much equipment it really makes it unsafe for them to return at this time. 4,500 tons of contaminated earth from around the site has been...

• Rail Cars...What's In Them

  Lee Coleman | January 23, 2007 4:07 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  I came across an article in the Witchita Eagle that was very interesting as far as bringing to attention just what is in those rail cars that roll through our cities every day. Last week here in Kentucky we had two train accidents in two days with hazardous materials involved. According to the paper 30 rail cars a day come through the heart of Lexington carrying such toxins as chlorine and...

• Train Tracks Reopen in Bullitt County After Derailment

  Lee Coleman | January 22, 2007 3:06 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Friday the trains were once again rolling on the tracks in Bullitt County, after a massive derailment on Tuesday. 800 feet of new track had been laid where the fires had scorched the tracks. No answers yet from federal investigators or CSX officials on the cause of the incident. On Saturday some evacuated residents were allowed to return home briefly for necessary items and to check on pets....