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When a Semi Truck Comes Through Your Back Wall — What Happened on NW Expressway and What You Need to Know Right Now It is 10:05 on a Monday morning. You are inside your home near NW Expressway and N. Libby in Oklahoma City — the same home you have lived in, raised a family in, felt safe in — and a semi truck comes through the back wall. Not a car. Not a pickup. An 80,000-pound commercial vehicle that crossed the eastbound lanes, drove through four of your neighbors’ backyards, killed livestock, sheared a gas meter, and buried itself in your house. Three of you were inside when it hit. The fire department came fast — Oklahoma City Fire Department coverage in this district runs sub-six-minute response times, and that speed is the reason the driver was extricated alive and the reason you are reading this instead of being read about. If you are reading this, you are probably one of three people: a homeowner whose property was destroyed, one of the three people who were inside the house when the truck came through, or a family member trying to help someone who was. You are not injured —…