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The Fire After the Rollover: What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — or someone you love is in a hospital bed in Lubbock right now, and you are sitting in a kitchen in Andrews at two in the morning trying to understand what happened on that county road. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already said what happened on the surface: a Dodge Charger was traveling too fast, the driver lost the curve, the car hit a boulder, it rolled over, and it caught fire. A 40-year-old passenger from Andrews was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock with serious injuries, more than a hundred miles from where the crash happened. Here is what the news did not tell you, and what the investigating officers are not going to tell you: the fire is the question that changes everything. A car that rolls over and hits a boulder is a crash. A car that rolls over, hits a boulder, and then burns is two events — the crash and the fire — and the law treats them separately. If the…