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‘It’s Unbelievable’: The Hidden Dangers of Road Construction Crews and How One Harker Heights Family Lost a Son A Preventable Tragedy on SH-195 The morning of February 17, 2026, began like any other for the Hurdle family in Harker Heights. LaRyzen Hurdle, a 24-year-old with dreams of creating video games and a laugh that could light up any room, left for work at 5:00 AM. His grandmother Velda remembers the ordinary goodbye - “We just saw him that morning because he left for work at 5 that morning and we got the call around 2 in the afternoon and it was just like ‘no, there’s no way this is happening.’” By 1:12 AM that night, LaRyzen was gone. Not from a violent crime, not from an illness - but from a preventable collision on State Highway 195 in Williamson County. A collision that never should have happened. A collision that reveals the hidden dangers lurking in Texas’s road construction zones and the trucking industry’s systemic failures that put families like the Hurdles in our community at risk every single day. At Attorney911, we’ve seen this pattern too many times. A young life cut short. A family shattered. A community rallying…