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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Mansfield, Texas: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this in Mansfield because someone you love didn’t come home. A fully loaded 18-wheeler changed everything on a corridor most people in Tarrant County drive every day without thinking about it. On Highway 287 south of Mansfield, where the morning commute backs up toward Fort Worth, or on the I-20 feeder routes that carry freight between the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and the Permian Basin oilfields, the physics of an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer at highway speed leaves no time for the driver of a passenger vehicle to react. A semi-truck crash at those weights is not a fender-bender — it is a closing-speed event that frequently produces fatalities and catastrophic injuries. Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 16.003 has already started a clock that doesn’t stop while you grieve. You have two years from the date of the fatal injury to file a wrongful-death action under § 71.001. Under § 71.004, you — as the surviving spouse, child, or parent — hold an independent statutory claim. So does your loved one’s estate, under § 71.021, for the conscious pain and mental anguish suffered between injury and…