Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 16, 2026

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…

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Jul 16, 2026

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…

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Jul 16, 2026

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…

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Jul 16, 2026

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…

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Jul 16, 2026

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…

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Jul 16, 2026

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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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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