MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS
Autos, Trucks, Tractors, Buses, Trains, and other Motor Vehicles

Auto, Tractor Trailer, School Bus, Railroad Crossing, Pedestrian, Police Chase Claims, which according to the unique facts of each case, may have involved:

• Violation of common law
• Violation of Statutory Rules of the Road
• Violations of Federal Motor Carrier Regulations pertaining to equipment standards, driver condition and/or weight limits

Violation of The Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices

• Negligent design of highway
• Negligent control of traffic during construction of highway improvements, Negligent timing of traffic signal
• Permitting contractor to leave low shoulders and construction hazards unguarded
• Violation of design standards with respect to curb radius, super-elevation, guard rails
• Negligent placement of traffic signals
• Negligent placement of opposing left turn lanes to the right of opposing left turn lanes on high speed 4-lane highway
• Negligent design of lagging left turn signals (versus leading left turn signals)
  

Violation of Railroad Safety Act

• Unguarded railroad crossings
• Violation of speed and blow post requirements
• Blocking vision at grade crossings by parking freight cars on sidings adjacent to crossing involving double “main line” crossings (CSX/Norfolk Southern)
• Sight distance obstruction with vegetation

NOTE: Mr. Coppedge represented the Western & Atlantic Railroad (Louisville & Nashville/CSX) for a number of years. He now confines this practice to plaintiff claims.