By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network, KUOW; September 3, 2019
The first of what could be many trials stemming from the deadly 2017 derailment of a Portland-bound Amtrak Cascades train began with the railway accepting liability for the crash.
“We’re here because Amtrak was negligent,” attorney Mark Landman told the jury in his opening statement at the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, on Tuesday. “It never should have happened.”