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Truck Driver in Nevada Amtrak Tragedy Identified

By Pottroff & Karlin LLC | railroad news

(Reno, Nevada – July 27, 2011)

The driver of the empty gravel-hauling semi trailer truck that hit Amtrak’s “California Zephyr” at the U.S. Highway 75/Union Pacific Railroad grade crossing late Friday morning has been identified as 43-year-old Lawrence R. Valli of Winnemucca, NV, an employee of John Davis Trucking Company in Battle Mountain, NV.

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