By Marilyn Odendahl, The Indiana Lawyer; March 19, 2019
A 17-year-old who was found to be more than 50 percent at fault for the injuries he sustained from running in front of a moving train was unable to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that he had no warning the locomotive was coming down the tracks.
Ja’Lin Williams and two of his friends took off running from Whihala Beach in Whiting to avoid being arrested for trespassing. As the young men were dashing across multiple sets of railroad tracks, a train was approaching on the two sets of tracks owned and operated by Norfolk Southern Corp. and Norfolk Southern Railway Corp.