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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Abilene, Texas: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road most Abilene families drive every day. Maybe it was Interstate 20 between Abilene and Sweetwater, where long-haul freight mixes with oilfield service trucks running between the Permian Basin and the Barnett Shale. Maybe it was U.S. Highway 83/84 through Taylor County, where grain haulers and livestock transporters share lanes with commuters heading to Dyess Air Force Base. Maybe it was FM 707 or FM 89, where a fully loaded tractor-trailer lost control on a curve that locals know but out-of-town drivers don’t. Wherever it happened, an eighty-thousand-pound commercial vehicle changed everything for your family on a corridor that carries the freight keeping West Texas running. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 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 Section 71.001. Under Section 71.004, you—as 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…
