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What the I-35W Ice Disaster Still Teaches Texas Drivers<\/em><\/h1>\n\n    <p class=\"jal-dek\">On an icy February morning, more than a hundred vehicles piled up on a Fort Worth stretch of I-35W and six people were killed. We at J. Alexander Law Firm have helped clients through the multi-vehicle wrecks that a disaster like this is made of, and here is what we tell them to do. If a Texas pileup reached your family and you need guidance, our team is ready to help you today.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-byline\">\n      <div><strong>From<\/strong> the team at J. Alexander Law Firm, serving Dallas and Fort Worth<\/div>\n      <div><strong>Updated<\/strong> July 13, 2026<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <article class=\"jal-article\">\n\n    <nav class=\"jal-toc-mobile\" aria-label=\"Table of contents\">\n      <div class=\"jal-toc-mobile-title\">On this page<\/div>\n      <ol>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-cause\">What Caused the I-35W Pileup<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-form\">How a Pileup Forms and When They Happen<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-rank\">How the Fort Worth Pileup Compares<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-luc\">How We Helped Luc, the Innocent Front Car<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-fault\">Whose Fault a Pileup Is in Texas<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-operator\">When the Road Operator Shares the Blame<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-insurance\">How Coverage Works When Many Are Hurt<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-notsay\">What Not to Tell Your Insurer<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-lauren\">How We Fought for Lauren<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-fatal\">When a Pileup Turns Fatal in Texas<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-desk\">From Our Desk<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-faqs\">Common Questions<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"#jal-cta-final\">Talk to Our Texas Team<\/a><\/li>\n      <\/ol>\n    <\/nav>\n\n    <!-- ============ LEDE \/ DIRECT ANSWER ============ -->\n    <p class=\"jal-lede\" id=\"jal-toll\">Six people died in the Fort Worth pileup. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, a chain reaction of roughly 130 vehicles, widely reported that morning as 133, tore through the southbound express toll lanes of Interstate 35W near the Northside Drive exit just before 6:00 a.m. on February 11, 2021, after an overnight glaze of freezing rain turned the elevated road to ice. Along with the six killed, 36 people were taken to hospitals and the city counted roughly 65 injured in all. So whether you are searching how many died in the 133 car pileup, or whether the I-35 pileup happened in Fort Worth, the answer is the same six lives, in one of the largest and deadliest pileups in United States history. We write about it because the wreck was not one crash but scores of them, the same multiple vehicle accident, sometimes called a multiple vehicle collision, a car crash pile up, or a pile up accident, that we handle for Texas families, only at a catastrophic scale.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- STAT GRID -->\n    <div class=\"jal-stats-grid\">\n      <div class=\"jal-stat\">\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-number\"><em>6<\/em><\/div>\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-label\">people killed in the Fort Worth I-35W pileup (NTSB)<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-stat\">\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-number\"><em>~130<\/em><\/div>\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-label\">vehicles in the chain, widely reported that day as 133 (NTSB)<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-stat\">\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-number\"><em>36<\/em><\/div>\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-label\">people taken to hospitals; the city put total injuries near 65<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-stat\">\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-number\"><em>2 yrs<\/em><\/div>\n        <div class=\"jal-stat-label\">Texas deadline to file most injury claims after a crash<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-question\" data-q=\"Drivers also ask\">\n      <div class=\"jal-question-label\">The event<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"jal-qh2\">What happened in the Fort Worth, Texas pile up, <em>and how many people died in the DFW pile up<\/em><\/h2>\n      <p class=\"jal-answer-summary\"><strong>A chain reaction of about 130 vehicles on an icy stretch of I-35W killed six people on February 11, 2021.<\/strong> The DFW pile up, on the Fort Worth side of the metroplex, also injured dozens and remains one of the deadliest pile up accidents in United States history.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- ============ 01 WHAT CAUSED IT ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-cause\">What caused the I-35W pileup: <em>ice on an untreated elevated toll lane met traffic that could not stop<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-question\" data-q=\"Drivers also ask\">\n      <div class=\"jal-question-label\">The cause<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"jal-qh2\">What caused the I-35 pileup, <em>and did the I-35 pileup happen in Fort Worth<\/em><\/h2>\n      <p class=\"jal-answer-summary\"><strong>Ice, speed, and following too close, on the Fort Worth I-35W express lanes.<\/strong> Freezing rain overnight left a thin, hard-to-see glaze on the elevated toll lanes, and drivers reached it at highway speed with no room to stop.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p>Overnight, a hard freeze and light freezing rain left a thin glaze of ice on the road, and the elevated toll lanes iced worst of all, because a raised roadway loses heat from above and below at once. The National Transportation Safety Board found the crash began when vehicles hit that ice on the elevated southbound express lanes and lost control, sliding into the barriers and into each other. Temperatures had held below freezing for about 36 hours, and freezing mist had fallen in the hours before dawn. The Board also found drivers were moving too fast for the conditions, and that is what turned a loss of traction into a 130-vehicle chain. On glazed pavement the only margin a driver has is speed and distance, and at highway speed there was neither.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-graph\">\n      <div class=\"jal-graph-title\">The morning the road turned to glass <span class=\"jal-source\">NTSB report HIR2301<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-graph-body\">\n        <div class=\"jal-seq\">\n          <div class=\"jal-seq-car jal-seq-hit\">\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-num\">Overnight<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-name\">Freezing rain<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-desc\">A thin glaze forms on the elevated toll lanes, hardest to see at dawn<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-seq-arrow\">&#10132;<\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-seq-car\">\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-num\">~6 a.m.<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-name\">Speed meets ice<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-desc\">Commuters reach the untreated surface at highway speed<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-seq-arrow\">&#10132;<\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-seq-car\">\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-num\">Seconds<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-name\">130-vehicle chain<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-seq-desc\">No room to stop; each car feeds the wreck behind it<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-graph-note\">One glazed mile, and <span>a chain no driver could brake out of<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- ============ 02 HOW PILEUPS FORM + WHEN ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-form\">How common pileups are and when they happen: <em>winter mornings on fast road stack the odds<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <p>A pileup is not one collision but scores of them, linked. One vehicle loses control or stops short, the vehicle behind cannot brake in time on limited traction, and that transferred force runs backward through the line, each car feeding the wreck behind it. That is why <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-multi-car-pileup\/\">a multi-car pileup<\/a> clusters in winter and in fog, on fast, open freeway where speed is high and sight lines are short. What time of year do pileups happen? Overwhelmingly winter, because ice and freezing rain are the classic trigger and elevated freeway like I-35W ices first, so these mass crashes spike on the cold mornings after a winter storm, exactly the setup that February. They are rare next to everyday fender benders, but human error and ice together stack the odds fast, which is why a single glazed bridge injures people in dozens of cars at once instead of two, whether it stays a ten car pile up or grows into a 50 car pile up or the 130-vehicle chain Fort Worth saw. Because that chain keeps moving backward, the safest move if you are caught in one, and can do it, is to get out of the crumple zone and off the road, not sit in a car that may be struck again. Most <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/bad-weather-car-accidents-texas\/\">bad-weather crashes<\/a> do not have to end this way.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- ============ 03 COMPARISON + ROAD DEATHS ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-rank\">How the Fort Worth pileup compares: <em>one of the largest on record, in the state with the most road deaths<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <p>With roughly 130 vehicles involved, the Fort Worth pileup is one of the largest and deadliest chain-reaction crashes on record in the United States, and it happened in the state that regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-road-deaths-statistics\/\">leads the nation in road deaths<\/a>. Texas lost 4,480 people on its roads in 2021, its second-deadliest year ever (TxDOT). A pileup is where that toll concentrates: six deaths, dozens hospitalized, and scores of wrecked vehicles from one morning and one iced-over mile. People ask what the deadliest pileup in history, or the deadliest car crash in history, was. There is no official title, but the answer here is clear enough: with roughly 130 vehicles and six deaths, the Fort Worth pileup ranks among the worst multi-vehicle crashes the United States has ever recorded. Six lives were lost in one chain, and 36 people were hurt badly enough to need a multi-agency ambulance and rescue response, some cut from their cars. The number that matters most is the smallest one, the six who did not come home, and the families the law still allows to recover.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- ============ 04 LUC STORY ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-luc\">A common cause of a multi-car pileup, seen up close: <em>how we helped Luc, the innocent car out front<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <p>Luc told his story on camera, and it is the pileup in miniature. He was the car out in front, sitting in traffic, when the back of his car was suddenly caved in by a vehicle that had itself been hit by another. Whiplash, back trauma, a knee driven into the steering wheel, and weeks he could not work. He called us right after the crash, we handled the insurers and checked in with him every week through a month and a half of therapy, and his settlement, in his own words, was way more than he was expecting. In a 130-car chain, almost everyone is a Luc, hit by a driver who was hit by someone else. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6TXYN1d1FIg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the rest of Luc&#8217;s story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- ============ 05 FAULT ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-fault\">Whose fault the pileup was, <em>and who Texas lets you recover from<\/em><\/h2>\n    <p>Fault in a pileup is not pinned on one driver. Texas splits it pair by pair, and the driver who could not stop for the conditions usually carries the largest share, though a middle car can be a victim and a defendant at once. Because those rules run the same way in every chain reaction crash, we cover them in full, the 51 percent comparative fault bar, how the percentages actually get set, and how the coverage stacks, on our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-multi-car-pileup\/\">who is at fault and who pays in a Texas multi-car pileup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-operator\">When someone besides the drivers shares the blame: <em>the road operator, the ice response, and the evidence that shows it<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <p>In a Texas pileup the drivers are rarely the only ones who could share the blame. The stretch of I-35W where this happened is a privately run toll lane, the NTE 35W express lanes, operated under a long-term contract, not by the state directly. The National Transportation Safety Board found the operator had pretreated some lanes with brine days earlier but did not treat the elevated section that iced over that morning, and that a crew had driven the segment about 45 minutes before the crash, saw no moisture, and applied no salt. The Board called the operator&#8217;s monitoring deficient and urged Texas to add roadside ice sensors and faster winter response so an untreated elevated span is caught before traffic reaches it; the operator disputed the finding. We raise it because a road operator, contractor, or government body that fails to treat a known-icy surface can share liability alongside the drivers, proven with maintenance logs, weather data, and inspection records. Families here pursued both the trucking companies and the toll operator: one family won a $44.1 million jury verdict against a trucking company in 2025, while the operator settled separately with another (Fox 4).<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-question\" data-q=\"Drivers also ask\">\n      <div class=\"jal-question-label\">Responsibility<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"jal-qh2\">Who is responsible for a multi car pileup, <em>and can the road itself be at fault<\/em><\/h2>\n      <p class=\"jal-answer-summary\"><strong>Usually the drivers who could not stop, but not always only them.<\/strong> A road operator or contractor that left a known-icy surface untreated can share the blame, which is exactly what the NTSB examined after the Fort Worth pile up.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- ============ 07 INSURANCE \/ COVERAGE ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-insurance\">How you get paid when a pileup injures many at once, <em>and what not to say to the adjuster<\/em><\/h2>\n    <p>When one crash hurts people in dozens of cars, several policies pay at once, each at fault driver&#8217;s coverage answering only for the impacts that driver caused, and your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage filling the gap when those limits run out. The adjuster&#8217;s job is to move blame onto you, so a few wrong words at the scene can cost you the claim. The full coverage stack and the adjuster script are laid out on our <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-multi-car-pileup\/\">multi-car pileup fault and insurance guide<\/a>, and our page on <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/dealing-with-insurance-companies-texas\/\">dealing with insurance companies in Texas<\/a> covers recorded statements.<\/p>\n\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-lauren\">What a catastrophic multi-vehicle crash does to a life: <em>how we fought for Lauren after she was thrown across the lanes<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <p>Lauren also told her story on camera. Stopped in traffic on a two-lane road, she saw a truck in her mirror and never heard brakes. The hit threw her into oncoming traffic, where a second vehicle struck her, and the car spun to a stop. Her passenger went silent, and for a few terrible moments Lauren thought she was gone. Both of them had to be cut out of the car. A shattered ankle, a broken leg and elbow, back fractures, months in a wheelchair, and surgeries she is still recovering from, and the insurer still tried to make her feel the crash was her fault. Our team fought that blame with the evidence, and that is the fight we take over for families caught in a pileup. This is what a <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/catastrophic-injury-case\/\">catastrophic injury case<\/a> really looks like. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-o2Kza8SfV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the rest of Lauren&#8217;s story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- ============ 09 FATAL ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-fatal\">When a pileup turns fatal in Texas: <em>who the law allows to recover<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <p>Six families lost someone in the Fort Worth pileup. The six who died were parents, spouses, and children, and Texas law lets those same families recover. Our condolences are with them, and nothing on this page is meant to speak for them or their loss. For families who face this, Texas law provides a path. Each of the six deaths creates a wrongful death claim, which Texas reserves for the closest family: the surviving spouse, children, and parents. If none of them files within three months of the death, the estate&#8217;s executor brings the claim unless the family says otherwise. A separate survival claim carries forward the injured person&#8217;s own claim for the estate. Both run on the same <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-car-accident-filing-deadlines\/\">two-year filing deadline<\/a>, and for a death that clock starts on the date of death. Coverage matters here too: when the at-fault drivers&#8217; limits are exhausted, the family&#8217;s own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage can help fund the recovery. There is no rush to decide anything today.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- ============ 10 FROM OUR DESK ============ -->\n    <h2 class=\"jal-h2\" id=\"jal-desk\">How we build a case out of a pileup: <em>mapping fault across every driver, and the surface under them<\/em><\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-voice jal-voice-desk\">\n      <div class=\"jal-voice-body\">\n        <div class=\"jal-voice-deskhead\">\n          <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1638\" height=\"2048\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Josh-Alexander-146-scaled.webp\" alt=\"Josh Alexander, Founding Attorney at J. Alexander Law Firm\">\n          <div class=\"jal-voice-deskhead-meta\">\n            <p class=\"jal-voice-name\">Josh Alexander<\/p>\n            <p class=\"jal-voice-role\">Founding Attorney, J. Alexander Law Firm<\/p>\n            <p class=\"jal-voice-tagline\">How our team builds a pileup case<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <p>We map fault across every driver in the chain, and in a weather pileup we look past the drivers too, at whether the road was treated and who was responsible for treating it, because missing that can quietly cost you part of your recovery. Every point of blame we keep off you is recovery you keep, since past fifty percent it disappears entirely. We move fast to lock down the evidence before any of it is gone, because the filing deadline is two years but the footage and data can be overwritten in days. That work is what decides whether it is <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/worth-getting-a-lawyer-car-accident-texas\/\">worth getting a lawyer<\/a>, and it costs you nothing up front: we are paid only if we recover for you.<\/p>\n\n        <p>One honest word about time: pileup claims settle slower, because no insurer pays until the percentage fight ends. Our answer is the weekly check-in Luc described, so you are never left in silence.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-graph\">\n      <div class=\"jal-graph-title\">How a pileup claim actually moves <span class=\"jal-source\">The road from crash to check<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-graph-body\">\n        <div class=\"jal-rail\">\n          <div class=\"jal-rail-stop jal-rail-now\">\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-dot\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-when\">Day 1<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-what\">Crash, 911, same-day doctor<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-rail-stop\">\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-dot\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-when\">Week 1<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-what\">Evidence hold: footage, EDR, weather and road records<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-rail-stop\">\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-dot\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-when\">Months<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-what\">Treatment while the percentage fight runs<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-rail-stop\">\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-dot\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-when\">Then<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-what\">Settlement, liens negotiated down<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"jal-rail-stop\">\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-dot\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-when\">Last<\/div>\n            <div class=\"jal-rail-what\">Disbursement: your check, explained line by line<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-graph-note\">Two years to file, but <span>the evidence work starts in week one<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p style=\"font-size:13px;color:var(--muted);\">J. Alexander Law Firm handles motor vehicle and serious injury cases across Texas, including Dallas and <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/practice-areas\/car-accident-lawyers\/fort-worth\/\">Fort Worth<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/small-business\/articles\/j-alexander-law-firm-founder-015900836.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Founding attorney Josh Alexander<\/a> has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2022 through 2026.<\/p>\n\n    <!-- ============ FAQ ACCORDION ============ -->\n    <section class=\"jal-faqs\" id=\"jal-faqs\">\n      <p class=\"jal-faqs-intro\">Frequently asked questions<\/p>\n      <h2 class=\"jal-faqs-title\">The Fort Worth pileup, <em>answered<\/em><\/h2>\n      <div class=\"jal-faq-list\">\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>How many people died in the Fort Worth pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Six people died in the Fort Worth pileup.<\/strong> The chain reaction on I-35W on February 11, 2021 also sent 36 people to hospitals, and the city counted roughly 65 injured in all.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>How many people died in the 133 car pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>The same six people.<\/strong> The wreck was widely reported as a 133 car pileup, though the NTSB&#8217;s final investigation counted about 130 vehicles.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>What caused the I-35 pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Ice, speed, and no room to stop.<\/strong> Freezing rain overnight glazed the elevated southbound toll lanes, which were not treated that morning, and drivers reached the ice at highway speed.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>Did the I-35 pileup happen in Fort Worth?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Yes.<\/strong> It happened on the southbound I-35W express toll lanes near the Northside Drive exit in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>Whose fault is it in a 3 car pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Usually the driver who could not stop in time.<\/strong> Fault points backward through the chain, but Texas weighs each case on its own facts and has no automatic rear-end rule.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>Who is responsible for a multi car pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Usually the drivers who could not stop, and sometimes the road operator.<\/strong> A contractor that left a known-icy surface untreated can share the blame, as the NTSB found in Fort Worth.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>How does insurance work in a multi car pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Each at-fault driver&#8217;s insurer pays that driver&#8217;s share, and those limits drain fast.<\/strong> Your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage fills the gap when they fall short.<\/div><\/details>\n        <details class=\"jal-faq-item\"><summary>How long do you have to file a claim after a Texas pileup?<\/summary><div class=\"jal-faq-a\"><strong>Two years from the crash for most injury claims,<\/strong> and from the date of death for a wrongful death claim. Camera footage can disappear within days, so the work starts early.<\/div><\/details>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <script type=\"application\/ld+json\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" nowprocket>\n    {\n      \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n      \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\n      \"mainEntity\": [\n        {\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How many people died in the Fort Worth pileup?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Six people died in the Fort Worth pileup. The chain reaction on I-35W on February 11, 2021 also sent 36 people to hospitals, and the city counted roughly 65 injured in all.\"}},\n        {\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How many people died in the 133 car pileup?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The same six people. 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Alexander Law Firm at 469-807-7480 for a free case review.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"jal-btn-row\">\n        <a class=\"jal-btn jal-btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/contact\/\">Free Case Review<\/a>\n        <a class=\"jal-btn jal-btn-ghost\" href=\"tel:4698077480\">Call 469-807-7480<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"jal-related\">\n      <div class=\"jal-related-kicker\">Keep reading<\/div>\n      <div class=\"jal-related-grid\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-multi-car-pileup\/\">\n          <span class=\"jal-related-eyebrow\">Pileups<\/span>\n          <span class=\"jal-related-main\">Multi-car pileups in Texas, explained<\/span>\n        <\/a>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/texas-road-deaths-statistics\/\">\n          <span class=\"jal-related-eyebrow\">The numbers<\/span>\n          <span class=\"jal-related-main\">Texas road-death statistics<\/span>\n        <\/a>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/severeinjurylawyers.com\/catastrophic-injury-case\/\">\n          <span class=\"jal-related-eyebrow\">Serious injury<\/span>\n          <span class=\"jal-related-main\">What a catastrophic injury case involves<\/span>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <hr class=\"jal-divider\">\n\n    <footer class=\"jal-footer\">\n      <div class=\"jal-footer-meta\">\n        <div><strong>J. Alexander Law Firm<\/strong> \u00b7 12801 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1100, Dallas, TX 75243<\/div>\n        <div><strong>Phone<\/strong> 469-807-7480<\/div>\n        <div><strong>Voice<\/strong> From the team at J. Alexander Law Firm, serving Dallas and Fort Worth<\/div>\n        <div><strong>Sources<\/strong> National Transportation Safety Board (report HIR2301) \u00b7 TxDOT \u00b7 Fox 4<\/div>\n        <div><strong>Updated<\/strong> July 2026<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <p class=\"jal-disclaimer\">This page is attorney commentary on a past news event and general information about Texas law, not legal advice for any specific case. Facts about the February 11, 2021 Fort Worth I-35W pileup are drawn from the National Transportation Safety Board and contemporaneous reporting; no statement on this page assigns fault to any individual involved. Client stories reflect those clients&#8217; own public accounts, and every case is different; past results do not guarantee a future outcome. 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