I was driving on a highway in Austin and a power line cable came down onto my car. What kind of attorney do I call?

Call an attorney that represents plaintiffs in personal injury cases if you have bodily injuries.  If you simply have damage to your car, it may be difficult to find an attorney that will handle just property damage.  But you can try to settle a property damage yourself by getting a repair estimate and sending it to the company that owns the line. 

The short answer: a personal injury attorney, but specifically one who handles claims against utilities and government entities — because who actually owns that power line changes this case a lot, and there's a clock running that most people don't know about.

If that line belongs to Austin Energy, it's a city-owned, municipal utility, which means any claim against it falls under the Texas Tort Claims Act. That comes with a strict formal notice requirement — typically as short as six months from the incident, sometimes shorter under the City of Austin's own charter — and missing that window can bar the claim entirely, regardless of how clearly the utility was at fault for a line failing and coming down on you. That notice deadline is the single most time-sensitive thing here, well ahead of the usual two-year statute of limitations people think of, so this isn't one to sit on.

If it turns out the line belongs to a different provider in that area (Pedernales Electric Cooperative, for instance, which is private, or another investor-owned utility), the governmental notice issue drops away and you're in more standard negligence territory — but you still want a lawyer to pin down ownership and cause fast, since a line doesn't just fall on its own: it could be deferred maintenance, storm damage, a failed pole, or even a separate incident (a tree, another vehicle) further up the line that caused it to come down where you were.

So: call a personal injury attorney now, tell them Austin, highway, power line, and let them sort out who owns the line and get any required notice filed immediately — that's not something to wait on while you shop around for the right lawyer.

This is general information under Texas law, not legal advice for your specific facts.