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Dallas Underride Truck Accident Lawyer: When a Trailer Shears the Roof Off Your Car You are reading this because someone you love was in a passenger vehicle on or near Linfield Road and SM Wright Freeway in Dallas, and that vehicle went underneath an 18-wheeler — and then underneath a second one. The roof was torn off. Those words are almost impossible to absorb, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we are going to do is tell you what this collision actually was, what the law says about it, what the trucking companies are already doing about it, and what you can do right now to protect your family before evidence disappears. A roof being torn off a passenger vehicle by a tractor-trailer is not a “car accident.” It is a catastrophic failure of the commercial safety systems that are supposed to prevent exactly this outcome. Federal law requires most trailers to carry rear-impact guards designed to stop a passenger vehicle from sliding underneath. When a guard is missing, damaged, improperly designed, or simply not strong enough to do its job at highway speed, the trailer’s understructure becomes a blade — and the passenger vehicle’s greenhouse, the…