A fatal train crash in Trenton Missouri on Tuesday morning claimed three lives.  24 year-old Nancy Groves, 30 year-old Adam Romesburg, and 28 year-old Nina Spencer were all killed when a Northbound Union Pacific train crashed into their Plymouth Neon at the railroad crossing of First Street in Trenton.  The neon was impacted by the train and then pushed approximately 300 feet down the tracks before it came to rest on the west side.  This particular railroad crossing was in an uncontrolled passage, meaning that there were no actual gates that were triggered upon an approaching train.

Fatal train crashes at uncontrolled railroad crossings raise questions on the safety of such a design.  While uncontrolled crossings are commonly in place in outer rural farming areas, they often times are replaced in urban areas with well-guarded crossings that have bright warning lights and automatic gates.  Train crashes that occur in broad daylight at uncontrolled railroad crossings beg the question of whether there was a safer design that could have prevented the injury and/or death claim.  Train authority and frieght companies commonly look to a cost vs. benefit analysis when deciding whether to replace aging crossings with update traffic light controlled ones.

Contact the fatal train crash lawyers at Schultz Legal Group to find out whether the design and construction of the railroad crossing in your case was to blame.  Our injury lawyer hotline can be used 24 hours in emergency situations by calling (866) 840-3636.  Don't be victimized twice.