A passenger on a Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line train involved in a crash with a truck in Mount Prospect last May that injured three dozen people filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the railroad agency for his injuries.
The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court says the transportation system was negligent because it allegedly used a train with no lights, no horn, inadequate brakes and an excessive number of rail cars.
The train was traveling east on the tracks near Northwest Highway and Mount Prospect Road when it hit a concrete-carrying truck heading northwest on the Northwest Highway that tried to turn left onto Mount Prospect Road.
The lawsuit says the plaintiff, Rafael Ortiz, suffered permanent and temporary injuries to his head, body, mind, limbs and nervous system for which he has had to pay medical bills.
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The truck driver, Kazimierz Karasek, was killed in the wreck.
Metra spokesman Michael Gillis said the agency does not comment on pending litigation.
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