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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in San Patricio: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road that everyone in San Patricio drives every day without thinking about it. An 80,000-pound tractor-trailer changed everything for your family on a corridor that moves the freight that keeps our community running. Interstate 37 carries the tankers and flatbeds between Corpus Christi’s port and the Eagle Ford Shale. State Highway 35 moves the produce and seafood from the Coastal Bend to Houston. U.S. Highway 77 runs the commercial traffic through the heart of town, where the morning commute collides with the overnight freight surge. The Texas Department of Transportation’s Crash Records Information System recorded 1,050 fatal crashes involving commercial vehicles in Texas in 2024—one every 8 hours and 17 minutes. In Nueces County, where San Patricio sits, 35 fatal crashes were documented that same year. Those aren’t statistics. They’re the wreck that closed the highway last Tuesday, the ambulance your neighbor heard at 2 a.m., the flowers on the overpass at the intersection where the road curves near the refinery. We’ve represented families in Nueces County courtrooms since 1998. Ralph Manginello has been fighting…