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• Car and Train Collide Because of Text-Massaging Driver

  Jenny Albano | October 18, 2007 2:14 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An Oregon man crashed into a freight train on Tuesday, October 16 at around 2 a.m. The driver, Robert Gillespie, and the crew on-board the train were not seriously injured.Gillespie told rescue workers that he was using his cell phone to send a text message while they were trying to release him from the demolished vehicle. He has been charged with drunken driving and careless driving. It is...

• Xcel Energy HydroPlant Chemical Fire Kills Five Contract Workers

  Courtney Mills | October 03, 2007 12:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A smoldering fire 1000 ft. inside a tunnel at a hydro-electric plant outside of Georgetown, Colorado, developed late Tuesday, killing five contract workers of the company as they tried in vain to escape. The five who perished in the chemical fire were from a group of nine contract maintenance workers at Xcel Energy. The workers had crawled 1,000 feet inside an empty 4,000 foot long underground...