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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Mills County, Texas: What Families Need to Know You're reading this because someone you love didn't come home from a road that everyone in Mills County drives every day. Maybe it was US-183 on the way to Goldthwaite, or FM 574 heading toward Mullin, or one of the county's many rural farm-to-market roads carrying the agricultural freight that sustains this community. When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer destroys a family's life on these roads, the physics of the crash leave no time to react—and the legal aftermath leaves no time to waste. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 started a clock the day of the crash. Not the day of the funeral. Not the day the autopsy report came back. The day the crash happened. You have exactly two years from that date to file a wrongful death action under Section 71.001. Under Section 71.004, you—whether you're the surviving spouse, child, or parent—hold an independent statutory claim. So does your loved one's estate under Section 71.021 for the conscious pain and mental anguish they endured between injury and death. These aren't just legal terms. They're the structure Texas law gives you to hold the…