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You Were on I-10 East at Hawkins, and Now a Semi-Trailer Is Sitting on Top of Your Car You were driving east on I-10 through central El Paso, probably somewhere near the Hawkins overpass, in the same stretch where TxDOT stations HERO units because the lane-drop geometry and the constant weave of freight traffic make it one of the highest-incident segments in the city. A semi-truck changed the physics of your morning. Your car ended up wedged underneath that trailer — what crash investigators call an underride collision — and El Paso Fire Department personnel had to work the scene to get you out. You were transported to the hospital. They called your injuries minor. The lanes reopened. The truck was towed. And now you are sitting somewhere — a hospital bed, a kitchen table, a parking lot where someone else drove your car home — trying to understand what just happened to you. Here is the first thing we want you to hear: an underride collision is not a fender-bender. It is one of the most dangerous crash patterns in commercial trucking. The fact that your injuries were described as minor at the hospital does not mean they are…