A Chicago personal injury lawyer investigates a wrongful death case in Cook County, IL, where a woman was killed by the railroad crossing because warning signal lights weren’t working properly or were turned off. On December 2010, Fox Chicago reported on the railroad hearing. There were long delays in railroad crossing. A lawyer states that CNR has a history of communication problems for twelve years, since their first accident. The lawyer claimed this first case had to do with human error because the dispatcher forgot to tell the engineer. In 1998, a passenger in a car suffered brain damage and other serious injuries. CNR settled the case for 9.1 million dollars. In the second case, the train flew by at fifty miles per hour; hit the SUV, pushing it 900 feet along the tracks, and the driver had brain injuries. CNR settled this second case for 55 million dollars. The lawyer adds that there were training and communication problems as well as CNR needed to implement a Positive Train Control System.
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