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When the Preliminary Report Blames Your Loved One — and the Truth Is Still Buried in the Truck’s Black Box If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was killed on Interstate 20 in Gregg County, and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper wrote in a preliminary report that the crash was your loved one’s fault — stop. Take a breath. That report is the beginning of the investigation, not the end of it. It was written in the dark, at a scene lit by emergency flashers, before the truck’s electronic data was downloaded, before the driver’s hours-of-service logs were examined, before the trailer’s taillights and reflective tape were tested, and before anyone measured whether that tractor-trailer was moving at highway speed or sitting stopped in a travel lane. We have spent 27+ years in courtrooms — including federal court — proving that preliminary reports are wrong, and that the real story lives in records the trucking company controls and can legally erase. The crash happened at 1:13 a.m. on a Friday. A 39-year-old man from Longview was driving west on I-20 near mile marker 583, close to Old Highway 135, when his Chevrolet Camaro…