Record-Breaking 18-Wheeler Crash Settlement in Dallas, TX

I received a call from my son. Their car broke down. One of the tires went flat, right?

They needed help, because they weren’t carrying a spare tire. We arrived at the place where they were parked, near the intersection of I-30 in Dallas. And I told my son that it was very, very dangerous there to change a tire.

I told him that we were following him, and that we should take the first exit and that we would drive behind him with our hazard lights on.

Behind came a semi-truck, at about 70 or 75 miles per hour. We felt a very strong impact. Our pickup truck ended up upside down. We spun around, and we were even knocked more than 200 feet away from where the trailer struck us.

The ambulance arrived, and they took me to the emergency room. I injured my back, my head, my right arm, and my leg was fractured. At my job, I go about four months without being able to work. I was fired from my job. They replaced me with someone else. I fell into a very severe depression.

At times, I even wanted to take my own life, because I felt like I was no longer good for anything. I hit rock bottom. We didn’t even have the money to pay the bills. I felt helpless, that I couldn’t do anything. In the city of Dallas, we looked into several lawyers there, and they were really bad. Specifically, that they only cared about the case itself, and not about the person, their medical treatments and all that. My son found Zehl & Associates. We saw that they were concerned, well, about the case and about us. They said that we were going to receive good treatment, and that we were in the best hands.

So, we decided to place our trust in them and let them handle our case. Lamar was our lawyer. Whenever we reached out to him, he was always the one who answered us. He would ask us how we were doing, whether we were feeling any better. or if we needed anything else, perhaps another treatment or something of that sort. We would tell him whatever we needed, and he always responded to us. And the truth? Well, I feel they did an excellent job, truly. They assured us we would receive proper treatment and support. And it was a very difficult situation. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before.

I suffered a great deal of pain. I received a great deal of help with my back. I underwent treatments for it. I couldn’t sleep either. I would wake up screaming; I kept seeing those semi-trucks honking their horns… With the help of the lawyers, they secured therapy for me, a place to go to see this specialist psychologist. And little by little, the psychologists started helping me. I hope it never happens again, of course. But if… if it ever were to happen someday to a family member, I wouldn’t hesitate to call the firm of Zehl & Associates again.