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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in West Lake Hills, Texas You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road that every West Lake Hills family drives without thinking about it. Interstate 35, the Mopac Expressway, Loop 360, US-290, and the rural FM roads that connect our Hill Country communities carry more freight than most Texans realize. When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer loses control on one of these corridors, the physics leave no time for the driver of a passenger vehicle to react. A crash at those weights isn’t a fender-bender—it’s a closing-speed event that frequently produces fatalities and life-changing injuries. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003 has already started a clock that doesn’t stop while you grieve. You have exactly two years from the date of the fatal injury to file a wrongful-death action under § 71.001. That clock runs whether or not the carrier’s insurer is returning your calls. Under § 71.004, you—your surviving spouse, your children, your parents—each hold an independent statutory claim. So does your loved one’s estate, under § 71.021, for the conscious pain and mental anguish they endured between injury and death. Three statutory tracks, one two-year clock. The carrier…
