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Fatal Motorcycle Crash on SH 349 in Midland: Your Family’s Rights After a DWI Wrongful Death If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on State Highway 349 in the hours before dawn on December 28, 2025, you are in the worst hours a family can live through. The phone call has already come. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already been to the scene. And somewhere in Midland County, a prosecutor is building a criminal case against the man whose intoxication investigators believe caused the crash that took your rider’s life. Here is what no one has told you yet: the criminal case and your family’s case are two separate things. The criminal charges — felony vehicular homicide, felony DWI — are the state’s case, built for punishment, and they will not pay your family a dollar. Your family’s case is a civil wrongful death action, and it runs on its own timeline, its own evidence, and its own set of rules that most families never learn about until the evidence they needed has already disappeared. We are writing this for you — the spouse, the parent, the child, the sibling who is sitting at…