Truck wreck lawyer, Dallas
Dallas is a freight city. Interstates and freeways cross it in every direction, and the same lanes carry commuters, delivery vans and loaded tractor-trailers at all hours. This page, from the Dallas office of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC, is about truck wrecks on those roads: where traffic runs heaviest, what the county’s crash numbers say, how the crash report works and what a truck wreck lawyer in Dallas does next.
In brief
Get medical care, keep every paper, and do not give the trucking company’s insurer a recorded statement before you talk to a lawyer. The officer files the crash report within 10 days; we can get it for you. No Fees or Costs Unless We Win. The firm advances case costs, and you owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you.
The Dallas corridors where trucks and cars share the least room
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute publishes the 100 most congested road segments in Texas each year. Congestion is not a crash statistic, and we do not call any road the most dangerous. But it is where trucks and cars sit closest together, merge most often and brake hardest. On the 2025 list, these Dallas segments rank high.
| Road | Segment | 2025 rank in Texas |
|---|---|---|
| Woodall Rodgers Freeway (Spur 366) | US 75 to N Beckley Ave | 3rd |
| R.L. Thornton Freeway (I-30 / US 67) | Jefferson Viaduct to East Grand Ave | 11th |
| Stemmons Freeway (I-35E / US 77) | SH 183 to I-30 | 12th |
| LBJ Freeway (I-635) | I-35E to US 75 | 14th |
| US 75 (Central Expressway) | LBJ to Northwest Highway | 16th |
| US 75 (Sam Johnson Hwy), Plano | Legacy Dr to the Bush Turnpike | 30th |
| LBJ Freeway (I-635) | US 75 to Garland Ave (SH 78) | 35th |
Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute, 2025 Texas 100 Most Congested Road Segments. Our office on Spring Valley Road sits in North Dallas near the Dallas North Tollway, a short drive from LBJ and US 75.
What the Dallas County crash numbers say
TxDOT publishes crash and injury figures by county. For 2024, the latest county year published, Dallas County recorded 46,257 crashes. Of those, 305 were fatal crashes in which 331 people died, and 1,389 crashes left 1,648 people with suspected serious injuries. The counties around us carry their own share: 28,074 crashes in Tarrant County, 15,348 in Collin County and 12,339 in Denton County the same year.
Source: TxDOT, Crashes and Injuries by County, 2024. These figures count all crashes, not only truck crashes. Statewide, TxDOT reports 4,159 traffic deaths in 2024 and 3,769 in 2025, the 2025 figure based on reports processed by April 2026.
Where serious injuries are treated
After a bad truck wreck, injured people in Dallas are often taken to one of the region’s designated Level I trauma centers. Texas DSHS lists Parkland Memorial Hospital, Baylor University Medical Center and Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas for children, and Medical City Plano to the north. Keep every record from the ambulance, the emergency room and every follow-up visit. We gather them for the claim.
The crash report: the Texas CR-3
Texas requires a driver in a crash with injury or death to stop, check whether anyone needs help and stay to give information (Transportation Code 550.021). Each driver must give name, address, vehicle registration number and the name of the liability insurer (550.023). A crash with injury, death or a vehicle that cannot be driven must be reported to local police in a city, or to the sheriff (550.026).
The officer who investigates files the Texas Peace Officer’s Crash Report, form CR-3, with TxDOT within 10 days (550.062). People involved, their authorized representatives, vehicle owners and the insurers involved can get the full report (550.065). Copies are bought for a small fee through TxDOT’s Crash Report Online Purchase System at cris.txdot.gov. We order it for our clients and read it against everything else.
Not sure what the report says, or whether it is right? Call our Dallas office and we will get it.
What to do after a truck wreck in Dallas
- Get medical care. Call 911 at the scene if anyone is hurt. Go to the emergency room or your doctor even if you feel all right; some injuries show up later.
- Photograph what you can. The truck’s cab door and trailer, any writing or numbers on them, the lanes, the lights, your injuries.
- Take names. The driver’s information, witnesses’ names and phone numbers, the officer’s name and the report number.
- Keep every paper. Medical bills, discharge papers, repair estimates, letters from insurers.
- Be careful with the trucking company’s insurer. Be polite, take the claim number and call a lawyer before you give a recorded statement.
- Call early. The carrier’s duty records may be discarded after six months (49 CFR 395.8).
Our full checklist is on the after a truck accident page.
What a Dallas truck wreck lawyer does next
We send a preservation letter to the carrier and any other company involved. We look at the scene before it changes and check for traffic or business cameras that may have caught the crash. We request the electronic logs, the driver qualification file and the maintenance file, and we follow the evidence to every party that shares the fault. Our page for a truck accident lawyer in Dallas sets out those first days in order.
Then we look at the law that governs the claim: two years to file suit (CPRC 16.003), recovery allowed if you are 50 percent or less at fault, reduced by your share (CPRC 33.001), and the two-phase trial a trucking company can ask for (CPRC 72.052). If the truck belonged to a city or county, written notice is due within six months (CPRC 101.101).
Not every truck wreck involves an 18-wheeler
Dallas streets carry box trucks, dump trucks, garbage trucks, cement mixers, tow trucks and delivery vans as well as tractor-trailers. Many of them are commercial vehicles run by companies that keep records, carry business insurance and answer for their drivers. A wreck with a delivery van on a neighborhood street can raise the same questions about hiring, schedules and maintenance as a wreck with a semi on I-35E, even when the federal rules that apply are different.
If a city or county vehicle was involved, such as a garbage truck or a public works truck, the six-month notice rule for claims against a government unit applies (CPRC 101.101), and a city charter may set a shorter period. Tell us right away who owned the truck, if you know.
When a truck wreck takes a life
Under the Texas Wrongful Death Act, the surviving spouse, children and parents of the person who died may bring the claim, and any one of them may sue for the benefit of all (CPRC 71.004). The person’s own claim for what they suffered before death passes to the estate (CPRC 71.021). The deadline is two years from the date of death (CPRC 16.003(b)). We take these calls at the family’s pace.
Where Dallas truck cases are filed
Most Dallas County truck cases are filed in the civil district courts at the George L. Allen, Sr. Courts Building, 600 Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. Some cases, especially those against out-of-state carriers, end up in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which sits in Dallas. We decide where to file with you, based on the parties and the law.
Talk to a truck wreck lawyer tonight
Michael Uvalle, founder of LAWBOSS and the attorney responsible for this site, practices from our Dallas office. We serve Dallas, Irving, Garland, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Richardson, Carrollton, Plano, Arlington and DeSoto. No Fees or Costs Unless We Win. The firm advances case costs, and you owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you.
Questions people ask
Which Dallas roads have the heaviest truck traffic?
We do not rank roads by danger. TTI’s 2025 congestion list puts Woodall Rodgers, I-30, I-35E, LBJ and US 75 segments in Dallas among the most congested in Texas, which is where trucks and cars share the least room.
How do I get my Dallas crash report?
The officer files the CR-3 with TxDOT within 10 days. You, your representative or an insurer involved can buy it for a small fee at cris.txdot.gov, or we can get it for you.
The truck driver left the scene. What now?
Leaving the scene of a crash with injury is a crime in Texas and a felony when someone is killed or seriously hurt (Transportation Code 550.021). Report it, keep any photos or plate numbers, and call us.
Is Arlington or Plano covered by your Dallas office?
Yes. We serve Arlington, Plano and the other towns listed above from the Dallas office. We do not have an office in those towns.
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We answer every call, any hour. The first conversation is free.
No Fees or Costs Unless We Win: the firm advances case costs, and you owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you.
Free case review
Tell us what happened
What helps us start
- Where and when the crash happened, as near as you know it
- Any photos, the other driver’s details and the company name on the truck
- The crash report number, if an officer gave you one
- Who was hurt and where they were treated
No Fees or Costs Unless We Win: the firm advances case costs, and you owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you.