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Federal Indictments in Ozona: Analyzing the West Texas Smuggling Crash That Claimed Four Lives The intersection of a red light and a high-speed pursuit in Ozona, Crockett County, Texas, became the site of an unthinkable tragedy that has now led to federal indictments. At Attorney911, we have spent more than 27 years dissecting the mechanics of catastrophic collisions, and the details of the crash involving Rassian Comer represent a level of conscious indifference to human life that demands the highest level of legal accountability. When a vehicle traveling at speeds exceeding 100 mph on I-10 exits into a community like Ozona and enters an intersection at 80 mph against a red light, it isn’t just an accident. It is a violent breach of the duty of care that every driver owes to the families sharing the road. The victims in this case—71-year-old Maria Socorro Alvarez Tambunga and 7-year-old Emilia Brooke Tambunga—were simply in a red pickup truck at the wrong moment, victims of a smuggling operation that prioritized evasion over the lives of innocent Texans. As experienced trucking and catastrophic injury attorneys, we look at this case through a lens of multi-party liability. While Rassian Comer faces the weight of…