With offices in Virginia Beach and Charlottesville, Wilson & Hajek represent injured persons at railroad crossings accidents throughout Virginia.

A railroad crossing accident can cause personal injury to a railroad worker, or a passenger in an auto, truck or motorcycle.  Injury lawyer Eddie Wilson or injury lawyer Francis Hajek can immediately help.

There can be many causes for an injury happening at a railroad crossing.
There can be a failure of the crossing warning lights, bells or gates.  There may be an obstruction of view for a motorist at crossings not protected by gates (crossing arms).  There are strict laws that require railroads to provide warnings to motorists using public crossings.  The railroad must also maintain public crossings so that cars and trucks can safely negotiate the hump in the road where the tracks cross the road.  The train crews have the same obligations as a motorist to follow the rules governing crossings.  As an example, the headlight must be on, the bells must be ringing and the train horn sounded at most public crossings.

A Virginia lawyer representing a motorist, or a train crew member, must know the state and the federal rules that regulate highway train crossings.  The laws for private railroad crossing accidents are different than the laws for public railroad crossings.  The rules for Virginia Railroads crossings have been set in part by the Virginia Code.  The experienced injury lawyers at Wilson & Hajek know which laws apply to public or private railroad crossing accidents.  This experience and knowledge has been accumulated over the years during the handling of cases for railroad crew members, or motor vehicle occupants, injured at a railroad crossing.  Call us at 1-877- 222-1588 (toll free) to discuss your case.

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