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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…