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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Houston, Texas: What Families Need to Know in the First 48 Hours You are reading this because someone you love did not come home. An eighty-thousand-pound tractor-trailer changed everything for your family on a corridor most Houstonians drive every day without thinking about it. Interstate 10, Interstate 45, U.S. 59, the Sam Houston Tollway, the Hardy Toll Road, State Highway 225 along refinery row — these are not just roads. They are the freight arteries that keep Houston running, and the carriers that operate them count on the familiarity of these corridors to mask what the data shows about fatal-crash density on the stretch through your county. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 has already started a clock that does not stop while you grieve. You have two years from the date of the fatal injury to file a wrongful-death action. Not the day of the funeral. Not the day of the autopsy report. Not the day the police report is finalized. The day of the crash. Under Section 71.004, you — as the surviving spouse, the surviving child, the surviving parent — hold an independent statutory claim. So does your loved…