If someone gets injured while using mass transit or public transportation, they might be able to sue for monetary damages for their injuries and other losses. Injuries caused by driver mistakes, failure to maintain the vehicles or premises appropriately, and failure to keep passengers safe are but a few of the reasons...
Category: Bus and Train Accident
Train Accidents: Seeking Compensation for Your Injuries
If you were injured in a train accident and are suing NJ Transit or another government agency, you might have to take legal action sooner rather than later. Government entities may impact the amount of time you have to file a claim, and you want to ensure that you cover all your...
What Are the Common Causes of Bus Accidents?
Each day, thousands of New Jersey residents rely on bus transportation. In doing so, they transfer their safety into the care of bus drivers and bus company owners.
Bus owners and operators have a duty of care to protect the safety and well-being of their passengers. Sometimes, however, circumstances lead to...
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Who is Liable in Metro Train Accidents in New Jersey?
Metro trains can cause traumatic injuries and fatalities when they derail or collide with another train, vehicles, or train stations. Victims of metro train accidents often sustain substantial financial losses because of the physical injuries from a metro train accident. Victims also suffer great emotional and mental anguish because of the...
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Seven Common Causes of Mass Transit Accidents
Accidents involving mass transit are not as common as accidents involving motor vehicles, but they do happen. When a mass transit accident occurs, many people may be injured or die because of the negligence or carelessness of an individual or entity. Government entities and common carriers owe a duty of care to passengers. When...
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School Bus Driver in Fatal New Jersey Crash Had License Suspended 14 Times – What Can You Do To Protect Your Child During School Field Trips?
As New Jersey mass transit accident attorneys, we see the devastation a mass transit accident causes for the families involved. Our entire legal team was saddened to hear of the tragic and deadly school bus crash in Mount Olive, N.J. in May of this year.
According...
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School Bus Injuries – Who Is Liable?
Schools have a duty to care for the safety and health of students who are under their protection. This duty is not only operational whenever a child is in the classroom. It also applies whenever a child is in the school fields, in the school bus or even on a school trip. Therefore,...
New Jersey Transit Lagging on Positive Train Control
What has been done to make trains more safe in New Jersey?
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Last fall a commuter train that was approaching the Hoboken Terminal crashed into barriers at the end of the tracks, injuring 100 passengers. Another person who was waiting on the platform was killed when part of the ceiling collapsed. Just before the...
Teen Hit by NJ Transit Train in Bloomfield
Is a property owner responsible for injuries sustained by trespassers?
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Being struck by a moving train is an event that usually ends in death. On rare occasions someone survives this catastrophe. On those occasions, is the railroad responsible for that person’s injuries? That depends on the person’s status. If the person was...