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I-20 Tractor-Trailer Crash Near Abilene: Two Critically Injured — What Happened, Why It Happened, and What You Need to Know Before the Evidence Disappears If you are reading this because someone you love is in a hospital bed at Hendrick Medical Center right now — because a Monday morning drive on westbound I-20 turned into a fire-rescue extrication and a helicopter flight — we want you to hear something first, before any legal analysis: what happened to your family is not simple, it is not automatically anyone’s fault in the way the insurance company will try to make it sound, and the evidence that explains why it happened is already dying. Two people were critically injured on August 10 when their passenger vehicle collided with the rear of a tractor-trailer near Exit 278 on westbound Interstate 20 in Abilene. The driver had to be cut from the vehicle by fire personnel before being airlifted to Hendrick. The passenger went by ground ambulance to the same hospital. The truck operator was not hurt. The Abilene Police Department Traffic Division is investigating. We do not know yet which carrier operated that truck, whether it was stopped or moving, whether its lights worked,…