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Fort Worth woman sues TxDOT over deadly I-35 pileup, Provost Umphrey representing her

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FORT WORTH – A Fort Worth woman has filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation, I-35 Tarrant County tollway operators and maintenance companies, and  various trucking company owners and operators over a massive multi-fatality pileup on Interstate 35 in February that killed her husband.  

The lawsuit was filed on July 6th in Tarrant County District Court  by Jane Watson and Cameron Watson, the surviving spouse and adult  child of Aaron Watson and includes the youngest child.  

Beaumont-based Provost Umphrey Law Firm attorneys J. Keith Hyde and D’Juana Parks represent the Watson family.  

According to the lawsuit, multiple defendants, as well as individual motorists, contributed to the chain-reaction crash.  

The lawsuit charges that the Texas Department of Transportation and  other private and public entities responsible for maintaining and  operating the interstate failed to monitor and maintain  the highway, failed to discover hazards or defects on the  roadway, failed to de-ice and close the highway because of  the conditions, and failed to monitor the weather.  

The lawsuit also states that the tollway operator, maintenance  companies and TxDOT were aware of the icy conditions because NTE  Mobility had posted a message on a video billboard three miles from the  crash site warning of the dangerous road conditions after an accident  occurred earlier that morning.  

“This tragedy was 100 percent preventable had all of the parties  named in this lawsuit done their part,” said Provost Umphrey Law Firm  attorney J. Keith Hyde. “We should not be here today.”  

Commercial trucking companies and individual drivers also named in  the lawsuit are accused of failing to pay attention and maintain safe  speeds, as well as failing to operate vehicles in a safe manner and  failing to properly train driver employees.  

The case is Jane Watson et al. vs. NTE Mobility Partners LLC et  al. Case No.342-326366-21, in the Tarrant County District Court.  

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