Our Approach

Texas Railroad Injury Lawyer

From 2000-2004, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) investigated only 13 percent of the most serious railroad crossing collisions reported to the National Response Center (NRC) and less than one-percent of railway accidents in all. In 2004, only 9 out of the 3,045 crossing collisions in the U.S. were investigated.

Railroad operators would like to have us all believe that crossing accidents occur for two simple reasons: the driver either tried to beat the train or they deliberately ignored the adequate safety warnings that were in place. This is what they say after nearly every accident.

What railroad operators count on is the fact that the FRA is an under-funded agency with little money to investigate the majority of fatal collisions and railroad injury accidents that occur. In fact, the FRA collision database relies mostly on honest self-reporting by the railroad companies themselves.

Unlike the FRA, the Houston, Texas, law firm of Williams Kherkher does have the resources required to investigate these claims properly.

The Williams Kherkher approach is thorough in every sense of the word. It is based on the compassion we have for our clients and on our firm belief that railroad injury victims and their families deserve nothing less than our firm's very best efforts to obtain a just result. This approach includes:

• Working the accident backward from the exact point of impact
• Employing surveyors to take precise measurements of the accident scene
• Locating eyewitnesses and taking their statements promptly while recollections are still fresh
• Employing highway engineers to evaluate conditions at the crossing
• Employing expert accident reconstruction specialists to recreate events
• Researching minutes and complaints taken at local city council meetings
• Requesting and securing transcripts of conversations between locomotive engineers and their supervisors after an accident has occurred
• Analyzing data contained on the train's event recorder (black box)

Once we have laid the groundwork for a successful railroad injury claim, attorney John Fabry will strongly represent your interests in mediation proceedings or in litigating the issues in court, should mediation prove unsuccessful. If trial is necessary to obtain a fair outcome in your case, Mr. Fabry will use all of the resources and technology at our disposal, including computer animations of the accident and videos of the scene, to present the evidence in clear and convincing fashion.

Contacting Our Firm

For quality legal advice and passionate representation, call Williams Kherkher in Houston at 1-800-220-9341 or, contact us via e-mail to schedule a free initial consultation. We handle railroad accident and injury cases throughout the state of Texas and nationwide.

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