SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio family is suing AT&T and two of its contractors after they say a dangerously low-hanging fiber optic cable killed a wife and mother outside her home — and that it could happen again if changes aren’t made.

On May 2, Glenda Roth was doing yard work outside her home on Oak Ledge Drive — a quiet, curved street near Nacogdoches Road and Loop 410 — when a passing Haul-Brooke dumpster truck hit the utility cable.

In an instant, her husband, William “Bill” Roth said the line snapped and turned into a deadly whip.

“She was weed-eating the front walkway,” Bill said. “She was to my right, about 12 feet.”

Bill recalled hearing the truck before he saw it.

“All of a sudden, I saw the line that ripped from the telephone pole come across the top of the dumpster truck an

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