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Fatal 18-Wheeler and Tractor-Trailer Crashes in Karnes County, Texas: What Families Need to Know After a Tragedy You’re reading this because someone you love didn’t come home from a road most people in Karnes County drive every day. Maybe it was U.S. Highway 181 on the way to Kenedy, or FM 792 near Runge, or the stretch of I-37 that cuts through the county on its way to Corpus Christi. Wherever it happened, an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer changed everything for your family in an instant. Texas Civil Practice and 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. Under § 71.004, you—whether you’re the surviving spouse, child, or parent—hold an independent statutory claim. So does your loved one’s estate under § 71.021, for the conscious pain and mental anguish they endured between injury and death. The carrier whose driver caused the crash has lawyers who’ve been working since the night it happened. 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 send the preservation letter that locks it down within 24 hours. We pull the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s…
