The Sioux City Journal comes up with some interesting accidents. This one about a train crossing collision will surely prove to be an interesting claim to iron out.

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Railroad Crossing Accidents: What duties apply when determining negligence?


Posted on Oct 21, 2008

A train-tractor collision resulted in the death of a female passenger and injury of the driver and an infant passenger. Although still under investigation it’s interesting from the standpoint of analyzing negligence of both the tractor driver and the railroad train operating engineer.  Each has certain responsibilities for speed, lookout and control of the motorized vehicles they are driving on the public roads.

“ALTA, Iowa -- A 20-year-old woman is dead and an infant and 21-year-old man were injured when a tractor collided with a train on Saturday afternoon in Alta, according to police.”

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