No New Trial in Truck Vs. Train Case

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There won’t be a new trial for a Nevada trucking firm ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in damages to Amtrak, after a truck slammed into a train at a rural crossing in 2011, killing six people. A U.S. District Court jury in Reno returned the verdict in September 2014 against the Battle Mountain-based John Davis Trucking. The jury put the blame on the truck driver who was killed along with five people on the California Zephyr 60 miles northeast of Reno on U.S. Highway 95. The company blamed a faulty crossing signal, and argued the judge should have made that a part of the jury instructions. Judge Howard McKibben says there’s no legal basis to revisit the case.