Los Angeles Metrolink Train Wreck Lawyer Jerome Ringler
Attorney Jerome Ringler, who represents Jennifer Kilpatrick, the injured woman, said the intersection was clearly marked to warn motorists of oncoming Metrolink trains.
Ringler accused the 63-year-old delivery truck driver, who died at the scene, of trying to beat the train running along San Fernando Road where it crosses Buena Vista Street.
“There were lights. There were down gates,” Ringler said. “That would have warned a motorist unless he had clearly ignored them.”
A spokeswoman for Universal declined to comment Friday.
At trial, lawyers for the company defended truck driver Jacek “Jack” Wysocki, saying that he was victim of the intersection’s faulty design. They said his vehicle was parked at an angle that permitted him to move onto the tracks without even noticing that the crossing arm was down.
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