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b"On January 14, 2000, TxDOT special jobs crew supervisor Elgin Wendell was called to the scene of an accident where an oversize load had struck and damaged an overpass on I-35 in Austin. As his crews worked to first clear the debris and then assess the damage, an 18-wheeler drove unexpectedly into the coned-off work zone. In the blink of an eye, the speeding rig plowed through several TxDOT vehicles and pieces of equipment and ran over Wendell and his assistant before finally coming to a stop. Wendell survived, and even went back to work for TxDOT, but as he told me, he hasn't ever looked at work zones the same way."