Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 16, 2026

9 Dead in Fiery Head-On Collision as a Pickup Crosses the Centerline at 75 mph and Strikes a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van Returning From a Midland Tournament, Two Survivors Airlifted in Critical Condition — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic-Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner, and Every Insurance Layer When Both Vehicles Erupt in Flames on a Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data, Toxicology and Cell-Phone Records Before Fire Damage and Surveillance Overwrite Cycles Destroy the Evidence, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Stowers Doctrine That Forces Insurers to Settle Within Limits or Face Excess-Judgment Bad Faith — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Nine Lives Lost on a Dark West Texas Highway: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Families Must Do Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that van — a son or daughter, a brother or sister, a teammate, a coach, a friend — we want you to hear something before anything else. What happened on that two-lane highway in Andrews County on the evening of March 15, 2022, was not something you could have prevented, and it was not something anyone in that van did wrong. A pickup truck crossed the centerline into oncoming traffic at highway speed. Both vehicles burned. Nine people are dead. Two young people survived with critical injuries and were flown 110 miles to a trauma center in Lubboch. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a full investigative team because the federal government considers this crash serious enough to study at the national level. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases across Texas. This page is written for the families of everyone in that van and for anyone who has lost someone in a head-on collision on a rural West Texas highway.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Jorge Espinoza, 56, Killed When an Oilfield Employer’s F-250 Crossed the Double Yellow on SH 158 at 4:30 a.m., Survived by His Wife Laura and Three Sons — TX Wrongful Death & Head-On Collision Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Oilfield Employers Behind Fatigued Drivers on Dark Two-Lane Highways at the Circadian Trough, Defeating the Going-and-Coming Defense to Impose Employer Liability Under Respondeat Superior, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Fatigue Cases, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data, Dispatch and Scheduling Records Before They Are Overwritten or Destroyed, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the Gross Negligence Standard for Exemplary Damages, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Head-On Crash on a Dark West Texas Highway — and the Company Behind the Wheel If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. The phone call came in the hours before dawn, or the highway patrol officer arrived at your door, or you got the call from a coworker who could barely get the words out. A head-on collision on State Highway 158. Two heavy-duty trucks. Both drivers dead at the scene. And now the questions that follow a death like this — the questions that keep you awake at 2 a.m. — are the ones this page exists to answer. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases against corporate defendants across Texas, and we have spent more than 27 years in courtrooms — including federal court — holding companies accountable when their choices send people onto the highway who should never have been behind the wheel. What happened on SH 158 near mile marker 268 on May 19, 2025, at 4:30 in the morning is not just a tragedy. It is a case. And the case is not just against the man who crossed the center line. It is against…

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Jul 16, 2026

Train Derailment & Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas — Two Union Pacific Railroad Employees Killed When a Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the Tracks and the Derailed Train Struck the Chamber of Commerce Building: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Grade-Crossing Claims, We Pursue the Trucking Company and the Crossing Entities Behind the Collision, FELA Federal Protections for Railroad Families Alongside Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Actions, We Secure the Locomotive Event Recorder, Truck EDR Data and Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Deaths, 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

Pecos, Texas Train Derailment: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed, Three Injured — Your Legal Rights After a Grade-Crossing Catastrophe If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that Union Pacific train, or inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce when the train came through the wall, or you are a family member trying to understand what happens now. You are in the first hours or days after a catastrophe that killed two railroad employees and injured three people who were simply at work in a building near the tracks. The scene is still being controlled by federal investigators. The building is closed. The names may not have been released yet. And the insurance machinery has already started turning — on the trucking side, on the railroad side, and on the side of whoever designed or maintained that crossing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas, and we are writing this page for one reason: to give you, in plain language, the truth about what your family’s legal situation actually looks like after a train-truck collision and derailment in West Texas. Not a brochure. Not a sales pitch.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful-Death Attorneys — Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues Union Pacific and the Motor Carriers Behind Grade-Crossing Collisions on the Permian Basin Freight Corridor Where a Freight Train Carrying Lithium-Battery Hazmat Cars Struck a Tractor-Trailer and Derailed Into the Chamber of Commerce Building Killing Two Veteran Railroad Employees, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the Locomotive Event-Recorder Data, Forward-Facing Camera Footage and Crossing-Signal Logs Before the 72-Hour Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Railroad Claims Machine Values and Denies FELA Deaths, FELA’s Relaxed Negligence Standard and Three-Year Federal Deadline Govern These Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was on that Union Pacific crew — or because you were inside the Chamber of Commerce building when the train came through the wall — you are in the hours and days after a disaster that took two lives and hurt three more people in a town where everybody knows somebody. You are being told it was an accident. You are being told the investigation will sort it out. And while that is being said, the evidence that would tell the full story is being erased on short retention cycles that the railroad and the trucking company are counting on you not knowing about. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who handle catastrophic injury and wrongful-death cases in Texas, including wrongful death claims against railroads and commercial-trucking defendants. We are writing this page because what happened at the Oak Street and Dot Stafford Street crossing in Pecos on a Wednesday evening at 5:45 p.m. is not just a news story. It is a federal case — literally.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way Vehicle Collision With Andrews High School Charter Bus on I-20 in Big Spring, Texas — Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor Where Oil-Field Traffic Mixes With School Transportation, We Pursue the At-Fault Wrong-Way Driver and the FMCSA-Regulated Charter Carrier Owing a Heightened Common-Carrier Duty to Student Passengers Under 49 CFR 390-399, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Secure the DPS Crash Report, EDR Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered 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, Howard County, Texas: When a Wrong-Way Driver Met a School Charter Bus on I-20 — and Three People Never Came Home If you are reading this because someone you love was on that bus, or because you lost someone on that service road, or because you are living through a similar crash right now somewhere else in West Texas — we want you to know something before anything else. The law has tools for this. The questions flooding your mind at 2 a.m. — who is responsible, is there insurance, was the bus company qualified to carry children, what happened to the evidence, is it too late — every one of those questions has an answer. We are going to give you all of them. On November 19, 2021, a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the Interstate 20 service road at mile marker 179 in Big Spring, Howard County, collided with an Andrews High School charter bus carrying members of the school’s marching band to a playoff football game. Texas DPS confirmed fatalities at the scene. Life-flight helicopters lifted from the roadway. Three people were killed. Students were aboard that bus. The playoff game was postponed. And…

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Jul 16, 2026

Motorcycle Product Liability & Catastrophic Amputation: Wesley Lemoine Bought a New 2023 Harley-Davidson FLTRXSE CVO in Odessa, Took It Back Three Times for Electrical Failures the Dealer Called Minor, Then the Bike Lost Power Without Warning and Threw Him — Right Leg Amputated Below the Knee, Attorney911 Pursues Harley-Davidson and Legacy Motorcycle Under Texas Strict Products Liability and the DTPA, We Secure the ECU, EDR Data and Wiring Harness Before the Motorcycle Is Tested or Altered, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered), NHTSA Recall Framework and Texas Gross-Negligence Punitive Damages, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Machine You Trusted Takes Your Leg — Motorcycle Product Liability in Odessa, Ector County You bought a new motorcycle from a dealership on West Highway 80 in Odessa. You paid premium money for a premium bike — a 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide, the top of their custom line. Within weeks, the electrical system started acting up: the radio cutting out, the phone disconnecting, and at least once, the engine losing power. You took it back. Three or four times, you took it back. You told them you did not want it anymore. They told you it was not a big problem and could be fixed. They did not fix it. They did not tell you about any defects or recalls. And then on May 4, 2024, the motorcycle suddenly and without warning lost all power — and you were thrown from it. You lost your right leg below the knee. We are writing this page for the person sitting in a rehabilitation room right now, or the family member searching at 2 a.m. for answers about what happened on that road in the Permian Basin. What happened to you is not just an accident. It is not…

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Jul 16, 2026

Head-On Collision & Wrongful Death in Andrews, Andrews County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Where a Pickup Crossed the Center Line Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van at 75 mph, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, the Vehicle Manufacturers Behind the Post-Collision Fire, and Corporate Fleet Operators Including National Retail Distributors Like Ross Stores Inc. on These Undivided Highways, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Mass-Casualty Cases, We Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell Phone Records Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Survival Claims Under the Stowers Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Andrews County Crash: What Happened on That Two-Lane Highway — and What the Law Says About It If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or critically injured in a head-on collision on a rural Texas highway, you are in a moment that no one should have to face alone. Nine people died on a two-lane road in Andrews County on the evening of March 15, 2022 — six students and a coach from a university golf team, the driver of the pickup that crossed into their path, and a thirteen-year-old boy riding with him. Two more students were flown by helicopter to a trauma center in Lubbock, more than a hundred miles away. Both vehicles caught fire. The road’s speed limit was seventy-five miles per hour, and there was no center barrier separating the opposing lanes. We are writing this because the legal questions a crash like this raises are not simple, and the answers matter to every family who has ever lost someone on a rural two-lane highway in West Texas. This page is legal information, not legal advice — and we are not the counsel of record for anyone involved in this specific…

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Jul 16, 2026

Nine Dead Including Coach Tyler James and Six Students When a Pickup Crossed the Center Line Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van on a Two-Lane Road in Andrews, Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to This Permian Basin Wrongful-Death Case, We Pursue the At-Fault Estate, the University’s Negligent Selection of a 15-Passenger Van That NHTSA Has Warned About for Years, the Manufacturers Behind the Fiery Fuel-System Failure, and Corporate Fleet Operators Including Ross Stores Inc., Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Nine Catastrophic Claims, We Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data, Toxicology and Cell-Phone Records Before They Are Purged, We Pull the NTSB Findings and Crashworthiness Evidence Before the Vehicles Go to Salvage, Texas Wrongful-Death Act Rights for Statutory Beneficiaries, Modified Comparative Negligence and Survival Claims for Conscious Pain and Suffering in the Post-Collision Fire, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, Andrews County, Texas: The University of the Southwest Golf Team Crash — Legal Rights of Victims’ Families If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or critically injured on that two-lane road in Andrews County — a son or daughter who played golf for a small college in New Mexico, a coach who drove the van, a teenager riding in a pickup — you are in the worst hours of your life. We will not waste a single sentence of your time. This page exists to tell you exactly what the law allows, what the evidence demands, what the insurance companies are already doing, and what rights you still have. Everything here is specific to the crash on March 15, 2022, in Andrews County, Texas, and specific to the law of Texas, which governs every claim arising from it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases in Texas. We are writing to you as the senior trial attorney who has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court, building cases against the entities and insurers that cause preventable deaths. Everything on this…

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Jul 16, 2026

Train-Truck Collision & Derailment Attorneys in Pecos, Texas: Two Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Freight Train Struck a Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the US 285 Crossing and Derailed Into the Chamber of Commerce Building — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to FELA Wrongful-Death Claims and Third-Party Liability, We Pursue the Trucking Operator Who Stopped on Active Tracks and the Railroad’s Crossing-Signal Infrastructure, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Crew-Fatality Cases, We Move to Secure the Locomotive Event Recorder, the ELD Data, the Crossing-Signal Logs and the Surveillance Video Before the Overwrite Cycles Purge Them, FELA’s Any-Part Negligence Standard With No Damage Caps, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for the Families of Deceased Rail Workers, 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

If Someone You Love Was on That Union Pacific Train — or Inside the Chamber of Commerce When It Came Through the Wall You are reading this because something broke on December 18, 2024, in Pecos, and it took someone from you. A Union Pacific freight train hit a tractor-trailer that was sitting on the tracks at the Dot Stafford Street crossing, just off U.S. Highway 285. The train derailed. Two crew members are dead. Three more people are hurt — some of them were inside the town’s Chamber of Commerce building when the train hit it. The National Transportation Safety Board has a team on the ground. The crossing is being repaired. The trucking company that put that trailer on the tracks has not been publicly identified. And the evidence — the proof of what actually happened, who is responsible, and what it will take to hold them accountable — is disappearing on a clock that started the moment of impact and does not wait for your grief to settle. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are trial lawyers who take catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas. This page is not a news recap.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Train-Truck Collision & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Two Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Heavy-Haul Tractor-Trailer Sat Stalled on a Railway Crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas for a Full Minute Before the 68-Mph Freight Train Struck It, Derailing the Locomotive and Launching Equipment Into the Chamber of Commerce Building, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Trucking Corridor, We Pursue the Carrier Behind the Stall and the Cargo-Securement Chain That Let the Load Become Airborne, FELA Wrongful Death Claims for Railroad Employee Families Under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Grade-Crossing Signal Data Before the Overwrite Erases It, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos, Texas Train-Truck Collision: Your Legal Rights After the Union Pacific Crash That Killed Two Railroad Workers The phone call came on a Wednesday in December. Your husband, your father, your son went to work for the railroad that morning the way he had a thousand mornings before, and this time he did not come home. A tractor-trailer hauling heavy equipment through the Permian Basin sat stopped on the railway crossing in Pecos for about a minute — long enough for the Union Pacific train crew to see it, slam the emergency brakes, and know that sixty-eight miles an hour was not going to be enough. Two railroad employees died. Three people in a building nearby were hurt. And in the hours since, the National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the train’s data recorder and opened an investigation that will take months to complete — while the evidence that decides who pays for this, and how much, is already beginning to disappear. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic commercial-vehicle cases in Texas. This page is for the families of the two Union Pacific employees who were killed, for the people who were inside…

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