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Fatal US 40 FedEx Tractor-Trailer Crash in Franklin County, Ohio: Legal Rights of the Surviving Family If you are reading this page, someone you love is not coming home. A 22-year-old from Newark died on U.S. 40 at Alton Darby Creek Road on a July morning in western Franklin County, and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office crash report says the westbound vehicle entered the intersection against a red signal. The report says the driver was not wearing a seatbelt. The report says the FedEx tractor-trailer was turning. And right now, you may be reading that report and thinking the case is over before it begins. It is not. We need you to hear that before anything else on this page. That sheriff’s report is a preliminary law-enforcement assessment — a snapshot taken in the hours after a catastrophe, before the electronic data was downloaded, before the signal-timing records were pulled, before the truck’s black box was examined, before any accident reconstructionist measured a single skid mark or calculated a single stopping distance. In Ohio, a police crash report is not evidence in a civil trial. It is a starting point, not a conclusion. Initial conclusions in these reports are revised…