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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Corpus Christi: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a Corpus Christi roadway that everyone in your family has driven a thousand times. The crash happened on I-37, or SH-286, or the Harbor Bridge, or one of the oilfield service routes that crisscross Nueces County. A fully loaded 18-wheeler—whether you call it a semi-truck, a tractor-trailer, or an 18-wheeler—changed everything in an instant. The weight, the speed, the physics of an 80,000-pound vehicle at highway velocity leave no margin for error, no time for the driver of a passenger vehicle to react, and no room for the carrier’s excuses to stand in court. Texas law gives your family exactly two years from the date of the fatal injury to file a wrongful-death action under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003. That clock started 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 released. The carrier’s insurer has already assigned an adjuster whose job is to close the file for the lowest number the law allows. The longer…