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Houston Shifted Cargo 18-Wheeler on I-10: Your Legal Rights After the Katy Freeway Pipe-Load Shutdown You were on westbound I-10 that Wednesday afternoon. Maybe you were in the traffic that stopped cold near the West Loop, watching the clock tick past 1 p.m. as a backup built all the way to Shepherd Drive — a mile and a half of cars going nowhere because an 18-wheeler’s pipe load had shifted and the truck was dead on the shoulder near Silber Road. Maybe you sat there for two and a half hours while crews worked to move the load, and the lanes did not reopen until 3:30 p.m. Maybe you were one of the cars that had to swerve, or brake hard, or squeeze past a stalled commercial vehicle on a Houston freeway that was never designed to have a truck parked sideways on its shoulder. And maybe you walked away from it thinking you were fine — until the neck pain started Thursday morning, or the headache that would not go away, or the stiffness in your lower back that turned into something worse over the weekend. Here is what we want you to know: even when the initial news…