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Posted by jeffhergert on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:52 AM

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Isn't NS trying to sue a crew for a derailment somewhere in KY about a year ago?

 

I think so.  There have been a few instances of railroads suing crews involved with major human error incidents.  Sometimes this has been in response to those crewmembers involved (and being held responsible by the railroad) suing the railroad for incurred damages under the Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA).  I don't think I've ever heard the outcome of those railroad filed suits.

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Posted by matthewsaggie on Sunday, June 16, 2019 10:21 PM

Isn't NS trying to sue a crew for a derailment somewhere in KY about a year ago?

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, June 16, 2019 9:54 PM

Do not know for RRs.  Almost all union Contracts with airlines have a hold harmless clause that protects pilots from any libility claims by employer !  Also for other crafts contracts as well.

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Posted by zugmann on Sunday, June 16, 2019 7:30 PM

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I beleive that the driver should pay for all the damages, not his insurance compny or the municipality. GROSS AND TOTAL STUPIDITY should releive his insurance company and the municipality of all liability.

Just because it was a municipal waste trailer doesn't mean he worked for a municipality.  Looks like a private outfit in the photos.

And as Balt said, you can't hold the people to pay those costs.  Most (the majority) are unable to, and good luck finding people to take jobs that require them to be in charge of anything expensive.  It's not like there is a surplus of decent truck drivers around. That's the whole point of the insurance thing.

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, June 16, 2019 6:56 PM

caldreamer
I beleive that the driver should pay for all the damages, not his insurance compny or the municipality.  GROSS AND TOTAL STUPIDITY should releive his insurance company and the municipality of all liability.

   Cldreamer

Hanging your compensation for the incident on the driver and only the driver is GROSS AND TOTAL STUPIDITY.   The driver may have financial means of being able to go the McDonalds for his next meal.  The best you will do is make a Bankruptcy Lawyer a fee as he drains the driver as he files for bankruptcy.  As Cldreamer you are in fact dreaming.

By the same token, shouldn't the engineer from the Dupont, WA Amtrak derailment be on the hook for all the damages.  How about the Frankfort, PA Amtrak overspeed derailment - hit the engineer up for all damages - that will show him.

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Posted by greyhounds on Sunday, June 16, 2019 6:31 PM

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I beleive that the driver should pay for all the damages, not his insurance compny or the municipality. GROSS AND TOTAL STUPIDITY should releive his insurance company and the municipality of all liability.

Unless there is some kind of state law protecting the municipality they're responsible for their employee's actions at work.

Insurance will pay up to the limits of the policy.  You are protected against your own stupidity by your insurance.  If you cause a wreck or set your house on fire your insurance pays.

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Posted by zardoz on Sunday, June 16, 2019 5:42 PM

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Posted by caldreamer on Sunday, June 16, 2019 2:44 PM

I beleive that the driver should pay for all the damages, not his insurance compny or the municipality.  GROSS AND TOTAL STUPIDITY should releive his insurance company and the municipality of all liability.

   Cldreamer

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Posted by rdamon on Saturday, June 15, 2019 1:07 PM

It is ironic that the unit is painted with the OLS logo.

 

Quick search for FSD service (Name on truck) points to a house in Bridgewater, NJ

Hauling waste ... hmm .. NJ ...  hmm  fagadaboutit ....

 

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:14 PM

caldreamer

The money to pay for the damages comes out of his pay.  If his insurance company pays some of it his rates will go sky high.

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You don't know that. 

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Posted by caldreamer on Saturday, June 15, 2019 11:46 AM

The money to pay for the damages comes out of his pay.  If his insurance company pays some of it his rates will go sky high.

    Caldreamer

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:45 AM

Semper Vaporo

I have to be careful what I listen to on the radio while I am driving... certain music (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc.) played by excellent musicians (Boston Pops, N.Y. Symphony, etc.) can be VERY distracting and essentially cause "my eyes to glaze over"... and it does not have to be loud, but I would generally have it up loud just for the pleasure of it.

Regardless, if I have an accident due to my being "glazed over" (mentally) I should be the one on the hook for damages (or, my insurance company!)  Or, possibly the entity (company/person/municipality) that I was working for would be held responsible.

 

1. Highway hypnosis,  aka a dissociative state. 

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, June 15, 2019 5:31 AM

Semper Vaporo
I have to be careful what I listen to on the radio while I am driving... certain music (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc.) played by excellent musicians (Boston Pops, N.Y. Symphony, etc.) can be VERY distracting and essentially cause "my eyes to glaze over"... and it does not have to be loud, but I would generally have it up loud just for the pleasure of it.

I've had times when I got so involved in debating a topic with myself (ie, building up my argument) that I essentially lost track of the world going by while driving.

We're not supposed to phone and drive any more (although most do), however if your significant other wants you to pick up a loaf of milk and a bottle of bread on your way home from work, odds are your "minds eye" is picturing where you'll find them in the store, not watching the road ahead of you.

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, June 14, 2019 8:07 PM

csxns

And the train in Germantown derails after hitting a truck.

Hard to believe I was actively watching for trains on this line just 2 miles west, no more than 2 hours later, and knew nothing about it until you posted here!

Unfortunately driver in this case did not make it...

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, June 14, 2019 7:59 PM

I have to be careful what I listen to on the radio while I am driving... certain music (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc.) played by excellent musicians (Boston Pops, N.Y. Symphony, etc.) can be VERY distracting and essentially cause "my eyes to glaze over"... and it does not have to be loud, but I would generally have it up loud just for the pleasure of it.

Regardless, if I have an accident due to my being "glazed over" (mentally) I should be the one on the hook for damages (or, my insurance company!)  Or, possibly the entity (company/person/municipality) that I was working for would be held responsible.

Semper Vaporo

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, June 14, 2019 7:22 PM

caldreamer
I disagre.  It whould NOT be the municpalities responsibility for the damages.  The truck driver was acting illegally and should be made to pay the ULL cost of all damages.

    Caldreamer

Driver pays!  With what?

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Posted by csxns on Friday, June 14, 2019 3:57 PM

And the train in Germantown derails after hitting a truck.

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Posted by rdamon on Friday, June 14, 2019 2:52 PM

Lack of proper vetting? Devil

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Posted by caldreamer on Friday, June 14, 2019 2:22 PM

I disagre.  It whould NOT be the municpalities responsibility for the damages.  The truck driver was acting illegally and should be made to pay the ULL cost of all damages.

    Caldreamer

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, June 14, 2019 12:59 PM

Not sure we need Charlie on this one, but his input's always welcome, of course.

Sometimes it's just plain stupidity on the part of the driver. And in this case since he's 59 years old he's certainly old enough to know better. 

This is the distracted, dopey driving I'd expect from a wet-behind-the-ears and not as good behind the wheel as he thinks he is teenager. 

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, June 14, 2019 11:12 AM

Oooh, look, a sonic Twinkie defense!

Wonder what amount of behind-the-scenes lawyer tinkering it might have taken to produce this 'official police response' to media.  (Note the critical detail that, unless I'm misreading the situation, the municipality is 100% on the hook for damages, as well as more than likely to want to preserve what might, uncharitably, be its, ah, cheapest possible cost for municipal-service labor.)  And yes, it got me thinking about the official 'spin' both pro and con that has been applied to Brendan Bostian for a similar kind of lapse in critical thinking due (nominally) to perceptual stress.

Time for another 'charlie hebdo' moment about the pathways that create this kind of critical foreground attention lapse.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, June 14, 2019 8:45 AM

I've heard of having music turned up so loud it gives you a nosebleed, but turned up so loud it makes your eys glaze over?

https://www.nj.com/warren/2019/06/trucker-listening-to-loud-music-crashes-into-moving-train-cops-say.html  

Reminds me of a cop friend telling me why he liked his job so much...

"It's a front-row seat at the greatest show on earth!"  

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