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Martin County I-20 Cross-Median Semi-Truck Wrongful Death — When a Tire Blowout Kills an Innocent Driver It is one in the morning on Interstate 20 in Martin County, and a westbound semi-truck loses a tire. The driver loses control. The tractor-trailer veers across the median and into the eastbound lanes, where it collides with two oncoming commercial trucks. One of those eastbound drivers — a 64-year-old man from McAllen, Texas, who was doing what thousands of truck drivers do every night on this corridor, earning a living hauling freight through West Texas — sustains injuries so severe that he is transported to Midland Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead. The Texas Department of Public Safety is still investigating. And somewhere, a family is getting the phone call that rewrites every plan they ever made. If you are that family, we want you to hear something before anything else: tire blowouts on commercial vehicles are almost never random acts of God. Federal law requires every motor carrier to systematically inspect, repair, and maintain its trucks — including the tires — and a blowout severe enough to send an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer across a median into oncoming traffic is the kind of catastrophic equipment…