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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Kaufman County, Texas: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road you’ve driven a thousand times. Kaufman County’s highways—Interstate 20, U.S. Highway 175, State Highway 34—carry some of the heaviest commercial traffic in North Texas. When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer loses control on these corridors, the physics don’t leave time for the driver of a passenger vehicle to react. A crash at those weights isn’t a fender-bender—it’s a closing-speed event that frequently produces fatalities and catastrophic injuries. Whether you call it a semi, a tractor-trailer, or an eighteen-wheeler, the legal exposure of the motor carrier under Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations is identical, and the depth of investigation required to prove how the crash actually happened is the same. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 started a two-year clock on your family the day of the crash—not the day of the funeral, not the day the autopsy report was finalized, not the day the police report was complete. Under Section 71.001, you—whether you’re the surviving spouse, child, or parent—hold an independent wrongful-death claim. Your loved one’s estate holds a separate survival action under…