Callahan & Blaine

A Metrolink commuter train struck and killed Debbie Ann Schwartz as she walked along the tracks near the Casa Blanca section of Riverside, California. Ms. Schwartz died at the scene. No one on board the train was injured. However, this was not the first fatal train accident to take place in Riverside.

In April of 2009, a teenage boy from Arlington High School was struck and killed by a train. After that accident the city spent $8000 on a train safety campaign. Then in April of 2010, a Riverside man deliberately drove his car around the crossing barricades at Jackson Street and was killed by a BNFS Railway freight train.

On March 3^rd, a man who had been walking alongside the tracks with a group of friends decided to cross over the tracks and was struck and killed by a Union Pacific freight train. Two young girls have also been killed by trains at that same intersection over the last two years.

This case brings to mind a case Callahan & Blaine successfully settled in orange County, California. In that case two joggers were hit by a car and paralyzed while jogging along the Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point, California. Attorney Daniel J. Callahan knew from previous experience that the intersection was dangerous and that the city of Dana Point, California knew it and had failed to do anything about it.

At Callahan & Blaine, California’s premier litigation firm, we believe our success in litigating and negotiating personal injury cases comes from our uncommon approach; we handle each personal injury case as though it were a complex business litigation case, attacking it from every angle possible; our approach is persistent, thorough and relentless. In the Dana Point case, Callahan & Blaine achieved a record-breaking $50 million settlement for the injured joggers, and convinced the city of Dana Point to make the highway safer for pedestrians.

If you or someone you know has suffered a catastrophic injury or died as the result of a road accident, please contact our Orange County, California law firm for expert legal counsel.