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Fatal 18-Wheeler Crashes in Austin County, Texas: What Families Need to Know You're reading this because someone you love didn't come home from a road they've driven a thousand times. The interstate corridor running through Austin County carries more freight before sunrise than the rest of the day combined, and the carriers moving that freight count on familiarity to mask what the Texas Department of Transportation's Crash Records Information System (CRIS) shows about fatal crash density on this stretch. When the 80,000-pound tractor-trailer that changed everything crossed paths with your family, the case began writing itself in ways most families never see coming. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 started a two-year clock the moment the crash happened - not from the funeral, not from the autopsy report, not from when you felt ready to think about a lawyer. The carrier whose driver was behind the wheel has had lawyers working since the night of the wreck. Every day that passes without a preservation letter on their general counsel's desk is a day the evidence they control - the electronic logging device (ELD) under 49 C.F.R. Part 395, the dashcam footage, the dispatch records - inches closer to…