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18-Wheeler Barrels Into a DPS Trooper’s Accident Scene on a Foggy Highway Near Lubbock, Attorney911 Pursues the Commercial Carrier Behind the 80,000-Pound Semi That Crushed an F-150 Cab on Video, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, 49 CFR 392.14 Extreme-Caution-in-Fog Duty and Texas Move Over/Slow Down Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on That Foggy West Texas Highway — and Why It Matters to Your Case You were working the scene. That is what troopers do — they stand on the shoulder of a west Texas highway in the fog and help clear the wreck in front of them. The flashing lights were on. The scene was marked. You were doing your job, and then an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer came out of the fog and turned a routine accident scene into a fight for survival. The footage shows what words cannot: the truck barreling into the cars, the trailer sliding onto its side, the cab of that Ford F-150 being crushed, and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper running for his life. Both the trooper and the person in that pickup were taken to the hospital. They are expected to survive. But “expected to survive” is a hospital phrase, not a measure of what comes next — the surgeries, the missed work, the pain that does not leave when the stitches come out, and the fact that an 18-wheeler drove through a marked emergency scene in the fog as if the rules written to stop exactly this did not exist.…

Construction Zone Wrongful Death on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Patrick Daniel Purdon, 24, Struck and Killed by a Hit-and-Run Tractor-Trailer in an Active Work Zone: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pursue the Motor Carriers and the Contractor Shells Behind the Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, FMCSA Construction-Zone Caution Requirements Under 49 CFR 392.14, Texas Wrongful-Death and Gross-Negligence Doctrine When a Driver Flees the Scene, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County I-20 Tractor-Trailer Hit-and-Run: A Construction Worker Killed in the Work Zone He Was Protecting The call came and your world stopped. A young man from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico — 24 years old, working a construction job on Interstate 20 in Reeves County — was doing his duty inside an active work zone when a tractor-trailer came through and took his life. The truck did not stop. It reentered the westbound lane and kept driving until a construction supervisor flagged it down. Your loved one was pronounced dead at the scene. If you are reading this, you are probably his family. You are probably reading at an hour when most people sleep, because sleep left somewhere around the second night, and what replaced it is questions. Who is responsible. What evidence still exists. What the trucking company is already doing. What your family’s rights actually are while the hours pass. This page exists to answer those questions — not with platitudes, but with the specific law, the specific evidence clocks, and the specific steps that decide whether accountability happens or slips away. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial truck crash cases and…

Fatal Train Derailment in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed When Freight Train Collided With Tractor-Trailer at Grade Crossing, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to FELA Wrongful-Death Claims and Third-Party Trucking Liability, We Pursue the Motor Carrier Behind the Grade-Crossing Collision and Hold the Railroad Under the Federal Employer’s Liability Act’s Slightest-Negligence Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Black-Box Data, Crossing Signal Logs and Truck ELD Records Before the Overwrite, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Modified Comparative Fault, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Railroad Workers Dead, Three Injured — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on a Union Pacific freight train on December 18, 2024, and did not come home — or because you were inside a building in Pecos when a derailed train came through the wall — you are in a place no one prepares you for. The first thing you need to hear is simple: what happened to your family is not just a tragedy. It is a legal event with a clock on it, and the clock is already running against you. Two Union Pacific employees were killed when their freight train collided with a tractor-trailer at a railway crossing in Pecos, Texas, just before 5 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in December. The train derailed. Three people were hurt — some of them inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the derailed train struck it with enough force that officials warned no one should enter until a structural engineer inspected the damage. The train was carrying hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries and air bags. None were released, and the…

West Texas Head-On Bus-Tractor-Trailer Collision: 8 Cheerleaders Injured, 2 Critical — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Highway Commercial Crashes Where a Centerline Crossing at Highway Closing Speed Leaves No Margin, We Pursue the Tractor-Trailer Carrier and the Bus Operator Behind the Lane Departure, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA 49 CFR 390-399 and MCS-90 Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and $5M+ TBI Settlement, Texas Comparative-Fault 51% Bar and Tort Claims Act Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Bus Full of Children Meets an 80,000-Pound Truck on a West Texas Highway You are reading this because someone you love was on that bus. Maybe your daughter was one of the cheerleaders, sitting in a seat designed for a morning commute, not for surviving a head-on impact with a commercial tractor-trailer. Maybe you got the call at work — the one every parent dreads — and drove hours to a hospital in a town you had to look up on a map. Maybe you are reading this long after December 3, 2016, because you or someone in your family has been in a collision like it, and you need to understand what the law says, what the evidence shows, and what rights you still have. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial-vehicle and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas. This page is a legal analysis of what happened when a bus carrying high school cheerleaders collided head-on with a tractor-trailer in West Texas, injuring eight people and leaving two in critical condition. It is also a roadmap for anyone whose family has been through something similar — because the legal questions, the evidence, the…

Fatal 18-Wheeler Crash at FM 866 & W. University in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — Jorge Zapata, 27, Killed in Pre-Dawn Chain-Reaction Collision: Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Oilfield Trucking Corridor, We Pursue the Carriers and Contractor Shells Behind 80,000-Pound Rigs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, FMCSA Post-Accident Drug Testing Mandated After Fatal Commercial Crashes Under 49 CFR 390-399, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Claims with Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, Millions Recovered in Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases Including $2.5M+ in a Truck Crash — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Fatal 18-Wheeler Crash on FM 866 in Odessa: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Dodge on FM 866 on the morning of January 12, 2026, we want you to hear three things before anything else. First: what happened to Jorge Zapata and to the passenger who was taken from that scene to the hospital is not a statistic, and it is not something you have to figure out alone. Second: the truck that caused this collision is governed by a completely different set of federal laws than a regular car crash, and those laws come with evidence that is disappearing right now, on a clock written into the regulations themselves. Third: there are specific things you should do and specific things you should refuse to do in the hours and days ahead, and the difference between doing them and not doing them can change everything. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas. We are writing this page because the crash at FM 866 and W. University in Ector County deserves more than…

Pecos Train-Truck Collision & Wrongful Death Attorneys: 2 Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Heavy-Equipment Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the Tracks at 68 MPH | Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Reeves County, We Pursue the Trucking Company, the Cargo-Securement Entity and Every Carrier Behind the Haul, We Pull the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Grade-Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, FMCSA Crossing Rules and FELA Railroad-Employee Claims, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Pecos Train-Truck Collision: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that Union Pacific train, or inside that building in Pecos when a tractor-trailer stopped on the tracks and the world came apart. You are sitting with a grief that has not yet found its shape, or with a pain in your body you are trying to tell yourself is nothing, while the insurance company’s first call is already coming. We are writing this page to you — not to explain the news, which you already know, but to tell you what the news does not say: what your rights actually are, what the companies are already doing to protect themselves, and what is disappearing right now that your family will never get back if someone does not act to freeze it. A tractor-trailer hauling heavy equipment came to a stop on active Union Pacific railroad tracks at a crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, in December 2024. It stayed there for approximately one minute. A Union Pacific train traveling about 68 miles per hour struck it after the crew applied emergency brakes. The collision derailed the…

Wrong-Way I-20 Head-On Crash & School Bus Wrongful Death Near Big Spring, Howard County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor Where F-350 Pickups Are Often Oilfield Service Vehicles, We Pursue Ford Motor Company on F-350 Crashworthiness and Fuel-System Integrity After the Post-Crash Fire, the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, and Any Commercial Employer Behind the Wheel, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data Before Fire Damage Destroys It and School Bus Camera Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring I-20 Wrong-Way Crash: Three Dead, Fourteen Injured When Ford F-350 Hits Andrews ISD Band Bus Head-On If you are reading this because someone you love was on that bus — or because you are living through something like it right now, on a different highway, on a different night — you are in a place where the world has stopped making sense. A child left for a football game. A band trip. A Friday night in West Texas that should have ended with instruments unloaded in a school parking lot. Instead it ended with helicopters, a fire on the interstate, and a phone call no parent is built to receive. We need to tell you something straight, before anything else: the legal deadlines for the November 2021 crash on I-20 near Big Spring have passed. The two-year window to file most claims has closed. But the law that governed that crash — the rights it created, the evidence it required, the traps it set for families who did not know the rules — is the same law that governs the next crash. And the next one is always coming. That is why this page exists: not to reopen…

Wrong-Way Head-On Crash on SH 302 in Ector County, Texas: Sebastian Trevino and Juan Guerrero Killed, Jesus Montoya Seriously Injured When a Ford F-150 Driving Against Oncoming Traffic Struck Their Hyundai Elantra at 4:45 A.M. — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic-Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner for Negligent Entrustment, and Any Bar That Served a 19-Year-Old Under Texas Dram-Shop Law, We Hold Manufacturers Like Ford Motor Company When Crashworthiness Fails in Head-On Collisions, We Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data and Blood Toxicology Before Surveillance Footage Overwrites in 30 Days, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Fatal Crashes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Gross-Negligence Punitive Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Two Odessa Men Killed in a Wrong-Way Head-On Crash on SH 302 — What the Families Need to Know Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Hyundai on State Highway 302 before dawn on December 7, 2025, the first thing we want you to know is this: the people who were killed were doing everything right. They were wearing their seat belts. They were traveling in the correct direction. They bear no responsibility for what happened to them. The law provides a path to accountability, and this page is written to show you that path — what it looks like, what the timeline is, what evidence is disappearing while you read, and what to do in the hours and days ahead. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and car accident cases across Texas. This page is legal information and a resource for families in crisis — it is not legal advice, and nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. But everything here is real, it is specific to what happened on SH 302, and it is written by the trial attorneys who would handle a case like this…

Fatal FM 1788 Rollover Crash Near Andrews, Andrews County, Texas — DPS: Ram 5500 Failed to Yield, Killing Patricia Montezuma Busso: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Commercial Fleet Behind the Class-4 Chassis-Cab at Morning Shift-Change, and Stellantis Where Jeep Rollover Crashworthiness Failed, We Image EDR Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Pull Cell Records and Drug-Test Results Before They Are Purged, Texas Left-Turn Negligence Per Se and the Stowers Doctrine That Exposes the Insurer to Excess Liability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, Texas: A Woman Killed on FM 1788 — Your Rights After a Fatal Rollover You are reading this because someone you loved is not coming home. Maybe it was your mother, your wife, your sister, your friend — a 52-year-old woman from Andrews who left her house on a Wednesday morning and never came back. The Texas Department of Public Safety has told you what happened, in the barest terms: a truck turned left across her path on FM 1788, struck her Jeep, and the Jeep rolled over. She was pronounced dead at the scene. That is all you know. That is all anyone has told you. We are writing this page for you — the person sitting at a kitchen table in Andrews or Eunice or Seminole, staring at a phone that already has a call from an insurance adjuster on it, trying to understand what just happened to your family and what, if anything, you can do about it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, including the Permian Basin. We are not going to tell you we represent anyone in this crash, because we don’t…

FM 1788 Fatal Head-On Collision in Andrews County, Texas — Adriel Eli Spencer, 22, of Midland Killed When a Ford Cargo Van Crossed Into Oncoming Traffic at Highway Closing Speeds on a Two-Lane Farm-to-Market Road: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Van Driver and the Commercial Operator Behind the Unsafe Pass, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Subpoena Cell-Phone Records to Prove Distracted Passing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Rule in Plain Terms, the Seat-Belt Non-Use Issue Texas Law Generally Does Not Permit to Reduce a Family’s Recovery, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A 22-Year-Old Man Is Gone Because Someone Crossed the Center Line on FM 1788 — What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now You are reading this because someone you love is not coming home. A 22-year-old man from Midland was driving north on Farm-to-Market Road 1788 in Andrews County on a Friday morning in late June 2026, and a cargo van coming the other direction pulled out to pass — into his lane, into his path, into the last seconds of his life. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already said, in its preliminary findings, that the van’s driver attempted to pass another southbound vehicle on the left “when it was unsafe to do so.” That is not a euphemism. That is a description of a man who drove his vehicle into oncoming traffic and killed someone. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happens next — what the law allows, what the insurance company is already doing, what evidence is disappearing while you read this, and what the single most important question in this case turns out to be. None of it is guesswork. All of it is what we have spent decades…

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