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Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on Highway 349 in Martin County, Texas — What the Family Needs to Know Now If you found this page, someone you love is gone. A truck driver — a husband, a father, a son, a man who went to work on Highway 349 on April 28, 2026, and did not come home — was killed when his Freightliner collided with the rear of a Peterbilt trailer that was turning onto a private road. The Freightliner caught fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene. You are reading this at a kitchen table or on a phone in a hallway at 2 a.m., and the Texas Department of Public Safety has already issued a preliminary report that says the driver who died “failed to control his speed.” We need you to hear something before anything else: that preliminary report is not the final word. It is an initial law-enforcement characterization, written in the first days after a crash from incomplete information, before the electronic data has been downloaded, before the trailers have been inspected, before the fire has been analyzed, and before any court has decided anything. The law does not let a DPS officer’s first impression…