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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Hilshire Village, Texas: What Families Need to Know You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road that every Houston family drives every day. The Katy Freeway’s morning surge, the Sam Houston Tollway’s endless loop, the Energy Corridor’s shift change – these aren’t just traffic patterns. They’re corridors where fully loaded 18-wheelers running at highway speed create physics problems no passenger vehicle can survive. When a tractor-trailer weighing up to 80,000 pounds loses control on Hilshire Village’s section of I-10 or the West Loop, the outcome isn’t a fender bender. It’s a closing-speed event that frequently produces fatalities and life-altering injuries. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003 started a clock the moment the crash happened. Not the day of the funeral. Not when the autopsy report arrived. Not when the police report was finalized. The day of the crash. You have exactly two years from that date 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 endured between injury and death. Three separate claims, one two-year clock. The carrier whose driver caused this has lawyers who’ve been working since the night of the crash. While you were making funeral arrangements, they were sending preservation letters to lock down the electronic logging device (ELD)…
