{"id":3599,"date":"2011-11-01T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:11:38","slug":"union-pacific-train-hits-19-year-old-man-along-tracks-in-northeast-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/3599\/union-pacific-train-hits-19-year-old-man-along-tracks-in-northeast-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific Train Hits 19-Year Old Man Along Tracks in Northeast Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, TX &#8211; A 19-year old man was struck by a Union Pacific train traveling 12 mph on Wednesday, Oct 26, in northeast Houston at about 3:30 p.m. along a section of tracks near Lorraine and Semmes, according to Union Pacific officials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3601\" title=\"Lorraine and Semmes Houston TX\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lorraine-and-Semmes-Houston-TX.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Officials told the media that the man may have been illegally riding on the back of the train just before he was struck.<\/p>\n<p>Chron.com reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Workers on the train told investigators they did not see the man and only learned about the incident when they were questioned at the railroad yard.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital where his condition wasn&#8217;t known later Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"FELA lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">FELA Lawyer<\/a> News Blog is a FELA, train accident and personal injury blog that publishes up to date train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, TX &#8211; A 19-year old man was struck by a Union Pacific train traveling 12 mph on Wednesday, Oct 26, in northeast Houston at about 3:30 p.m. along a section of tracks near Lorraine and Semmes, according to Union Pacific officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,84,74,36,9],"tags":[4,60],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fela-law","category-railroad-workers","category-texas-railroad-news","category-train-accidents","category-union-pacific","tag-fela-lawyer","tag-houston-fela-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gordon-elias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}