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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Cross Roads, Texas You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road that every family in Cross Roads drives every day. Interstate 35, U.S. Highway 380, and the FM 428 corridor carry the freight that fuels Denton County’s growth—Amazon delivery vans, Sysco foodservice trucks, Halliburton oilfield haulers, and the long-haul semis moving between Dallas and Oklahoma. When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer loses control at highway speed, the physics don’t leave time for the driver of a passenger vehicle to react. A crash at those weights is not a fender-bender. It’s a closing-speed event that frequently produces fatalities and catastrophic injuries. Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 16.003 has already started a clock that doesn’t stop while you grieve. You have exactly two years from the date of the fatal injury to file a wrongful-death action under § 71.001. That clock runs whether or not the carrier’s insurer is returning your calls. Once it runs, the case dies procedurally, and the carrier walks away from a viable claim because the file was never opened. Under § 71.004, the surviving spouse, children, and parents of the decedent each hold an independent claim. Under § 71.021, the estate holds a separate survival action for the pain and mental anguish the decedent endured between injury and death. Three statutory tracks, one two-year clock. We’ve represented families in Denton County courtrooms since 1998. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has been admitted to the U.S. District…
