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Cherokee County Fatal U-Turn Crash on FM 2138: What the Law Says About Liability, Wrongful Death, and Your Family’s Rights If you are reading this page, someone you love may not be coming home. Maybe you got the call late on a Friday night — the kind of call that splits your life into before and after. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table in Rusk, or Jacksonville, or somewhere in the pine-country spread of Cherokee County, trying to understand how a drive home on a familiar farm-to-market road ended in a tree and a death. We are sorry you are here. We are also glad you found this page, because what you do in the days ahead matters — and the law has more to say about what happened on FM 2138 than the preliminary news report told you. Here is the first thing you need to hear: the fact that your loved one’s vehicle struck the rear of another car does not automatically mean the crash was her fault. Texas law places a duty on every driver who makes a U-turn to ensure that maneuver can be completed safely and that no other vehicle will be endangered.…