Category: Accident Analysis / Reconstruction, Transportation Overcrowding Blamed for NYC Subway Passenger's Fatal Fall TASA ID: 1013 A 63-year-old woman fell from a subway platform located at the intersections of 74th Street, Broadway and Roosevelt Avenue, Queens, New York. She landed on the subway tracks, her head struck one of the rails and she sustained a fatal injury. The plaintiff's counsel alleged that the New York City Transit Authority negligently failed to ensure the safety of the platform passengers. Read more
Category: Accident Analysis / Reconstruction, Transportation Rail Platform Overcrowding TASA ID: 1013 Overcrowding (large concentrations of rail passengers) will frequently occur usually without any serious consequences. Unfortunately, on occasion the rail platform's inadequacies can result in serious injuries and fatalities. Platform overcrowding results in passengers losing movement control. Read more
Category: Safety, Transportation Who Is Responsible for Worker Injuries at Loading Docks? TASA ID: 625 Whenever people and trucks are in close proximity, the area becomes very hazardous. In most cases, but not all, those that are doing the loading or unloading, as well as pedestrians, can be the losers. Generally, loading and/or unloading involves a great deal of people, goods and machinery, often on a raised platform or loading dock. There are a number of standards and regulations designed to limit the number of hazards workers are exposed to on loading docks. Read more
Category: Automotive/Trucking, Business & Commerce, Transportation Used Car Prices Drop to Four-Year Low in Q3 TASA ID: 4286 As used supply continues to increase, putting downward pressure on used prices, Edmunds.com reported the average used car sold by franchised dealers in the third quarter was priced at $15,617. Read more
Category: Articles, Automotive/Trucking, Business & Commerce, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Transportation MAP 21: The New Transportation Law Providing Penalties for Illegal Brokering TASA ID: 2109 Here, it comes to pass that MAP 21 requires the complete and utter legal separation of the businesses trucking from brokering according to the FMCSA (49 USC 13902 [6]). Motor carriers can no longer broker as they always operated when accepting more freight than equipment to handle. Motor carriers simply “brokered” the overload to other motor carriers without a license. Read more
