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The I-20 Crash Near Sweetwater: What Happened and What It Means for You You are reading this because something happened on Interstate 20 — maybe near Sweetwater, maybe farther west toward Midland, maybe east toward Abilene — and you need to know what comes next. A crash involving tractor-trailers on this stretch of West Texas highway is not a fender-bender. It is a life-altering event that brings medical bills, lost income, insurance adjusters who sound friendly and are not, and a clock that started ticking the moment the metal stopped moving. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on this road, what the law says about it, and what you need to do — starting with the things that are already disappearing. On December 22, 2018, a serious crash occurred on Interstate 20 near Sweetwater, in Nolan County, Texas. Two tractor-trailers and a pickup truck collided. The driver of the pickup sustained a bleeding head injury, cracked ribs, and a collapsed lung — a condition called tension pneumothorax that kills people who do not get relief within minutes. He was trapped inside his vehicle. An off-duty Army sergeant from Fort Bliss stopped at the scene,…