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Florida’s Turnpike, Mile Marker 171: When a 53-Foot Trailer Blocks Every Lane and There Is Nowhere to Go You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from Florida’s Turnpike on August 12, 2025. Three people — a driver and two passengers in a minivan — were killed when a commercial tractor-trailer swung across all northbound lanes through a median crossover marked “U-TURN OFFICIAL USE ONLY.” The minivan struck the left side of the trailer in what the lawsuit calls a classic and fatal underride crash. All three occupants died. One was pronounced dead at the scene. We are not going to give you a news summary. You already know the facts. What you need — and what we are going to give you — is the truth about what this case actually is, what the law makes possible, what the trucking company and its insurer are already doing, and what evidence is disappearing while you read this page. That is the version of the story the other side hopes you never find. This is a wrongful death case. It is governed by Florida law. It involves a commercial trucking company with a documented federal safety record…