Court of Appeals of North Carolina March 21, 2000, COA99-399 (Turner v. Norfolk Southern Corp.)

WALKER, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this action on 3 May 1994 alleging defendants’ negligence arising out of a collision between an automobile driven by the plaintiff’s wife, Edna Turner, and an Amtrak train at the Hopson Road

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railroad crossing in Durham County. Mrs. Turner and two of their children were killed, and a third child was seriously injured.