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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Balcones Heights: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a drive through Balcones Heights or the surrounding San Antonio area. A fully loaded 18-wheeler traveling on I-10, I-35, or Loop 410 crossed into your family’s path, and in an instant, everything changed. The Texas Department of Transportation’s Crash Records Information System (CRIS) recorded 48,522 crashes in Bexar County last year—one every 11 minutes—and 205 of them were fatal. When the commercial vehicle involved is an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer, the physics of the impact often leave little chance for survival. We’ve represented families in Bexar County and across Texas in these cases since 1998. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27 years holding trucking companies accountable in courtrooms from the Bexar County Courthouse to the Southern District of Texas. Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, worked for years at a national insurance defense firm, learning firsthand how carriers value claims—and how they try to minimize them. We know the corridors where these crashes happen most often, the carriers that run them, and the federal safety rules those carriers are supposed to follow. Most importantly, we know what…
