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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Rusk County, Texas: A Comprehensive Guide for Families You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a road most people in Rusk County drive every day without thinking about it. An eighty-thousand-pound tractor-trailer traveling on Highway 259, Highway 42, or the nearby stretches of Interstate 20 changed everything for your family in an instant. The Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 has already started a clock that does not stop while you grieve. You have exactly 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 suffering endured between injury and death. The carrier whose driver caused this tragedy has lawyers who began working the case the night of the crash. The longer you wait, the more evidence they control—the electronic logging device (ELD) under 49 C.F.R. Part 395, the dashcam footage, the maintenance records under Part 396, the driver qualification file under Part 391—and the more of it disappears. We…