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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Rollover Ejection on Cottonwood Road: Melissa Michele Jessen, 50, of Gardendale Killed When Her 2017 Chevrolet Camaro Struck a Dirt Embankment and Utility Pole in Ector County, Texas — Attorney911 Investigates Crashworthiness, Door-Latch and Roof-Structure Failure, We Pursue the Manufacturer Behind the Design Defect and the Roadway Authority Behind the Clear-Zone Hazard, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Blames the Unrestrained Occupant Instead of the Vehicle, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Preserve the Camaro Before It Is Scrapped, FMVSS Occupant-Protection and Ejection-Mitigation Standards, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine and the Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Single-Vehicle Crash Kills Someone You Love in Ector County — What the Law Actually Says You are reading this because someone you love died on Cottonwood Road. Maybe it was the day after Christmas, and the phone call came before the sun was up. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table in Gardendale or Odessa, staring at a death certificate that says “ejected during rollover,” and the trooper’s voice is still in your head: she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Everyone — the news, the officer, the insurance adjuster who called before the funeral — is telling you the same thing in different words: it was a single-vehicle crash. There is no one else to blame. We need you to hear something before you believe that. A single-vehicle crash does not mean the driver was the only cause. Vehicles are built to federal safety standards that require them to protect occupants in foreseeable crashes — including rollovers. Roadways are engineered to standards that require roadside hazards to be removed, shielded, or kept outside a recovery zone. Utility poles are supposed to be placed where they cannot become lethal fixed objects in a vehicle’s path. When a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro rolls over and ejects its occupant, the questions the law demands are not “whose fault was the crash” but “what did the vehicle do, or fail to do, when the crash happened” and “was the road itself a hazard the government or the utility company created and never…

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Jul 16, 2026

Head-On Crash on US 67 Near Alpine, Brewster County, Texas Kills Pickup Driver, DPS Trooper Seriously Injured — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Highway Wrongful-Death Claims Against Governmental Entities, We Pursue the Governmental Employer Behind the Patrol Vehicle Under the Texas Tort Claims Act With Its Sovereign-Immunity Waiver, Damage Caps and Compressed Notice-of-Claim Deadline, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Government-Vehicle Cases, Combined Closing Speeds on a Two-Lane Rural Highway Leave No Time for Evasive Maneuvering, We Move to Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data, Dashcam Footage and Scene Evidence Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Cycle Erases It, DPS Investigating Its Own Trooper’s Fatal Crash Creates an Inherent Conflict That Demands Independent Accident Reconstruction, Texas Comparative-Fault 51% Bar Means Fault Determination Controls 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

When a DPS Trooper’s Patrol Vehicle Is in the Crash That Killed Someone You Love on US 67 You are reading this because someone in your family was killed on a Tuesday morning on US Highway 67, five miles east of Alpine, and the other vehicle was a Department of Public Safety Chevrolet Tahoe — a law enforcement patrol vehicle driven by a DPS trooper who was also hurt badly enough to be flown by helicopter to a hospital in El Paso, roughly 220 miles north. The driver of the blue GMC Sierra pickup truck — your father, your husband, your brother, your mother, your friend — was pronounced dead at the scene. DPS has released almost nothing. The agency’s own news release says the crash “remains under investigation by DPS,” and that no additional information is available. We need to talk about what that means — and what it does not mean. It means that the same agency whose employee was behind the wheel of the patrol vehicle that crossed paths with your loved one’s truck is the agency controlling the investigation, controlling the evidence, and controlling the narrative. That is not a criticism of individual investigators. It is a structural fact that every trial lawyer who has ever handled a claim against a government entity recognizes immediately. When the investigating agency and the potentially liable party are the same entity, the family of the person who died needs an independent investigation running in parallel — not later, but…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Freightliner Rollover on FM 1787 in Midland County, Texas Claims the Life of Marco Antonio Zapata, 70, of Odessa — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial Truck Wrongful Death Cases, We Pursue the Operating Entities and Vehicle Owners Behind Aging Oilfield Rigs That Rollover on Farm-to-Market Roads Engineered for Light Traffic, We Extract the ECM Black-Box Data and Maintenance Records Before the Vehicle Is Salvaged, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Actions Under the State’s 51% Comparative-Fault Rule, FMCSA Regulations Under 49 CFR Govern If the Freightliner Was in Commercial Service, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Moment You’re In — and Why What You Do in the Next Few Days May Matter More Than Anything That Happens in Court If you are reading this because someone you love died on FM 1787 on May 17, 2026 — we are talking to you. Not to the public, not to a search engine. To you, at whatever hour you found this page, in whatever state of shock and exhaustion you’re carrying right now. You probably already know the bare facts. A 2009 Freightliner towing a trailer was traveling east on FM 1787 near mile marker 268. The Texas Department of Public Safety says it was going too fast for the curve. It veered off the road and rolled over. A 70-year-old man from Odessa was taken to Medical Center Hospital and pronounced dead. The crash is under investigation. What you may not know is this: the single most important facts in this case — facts that will determine whether your family has a wrongful death claim worth pursuing and who that claim is against — are not in the DPS preliminary report. They may not be known to anyone yet. Was the Freightliner a commercial vehicle engaged in oilfield service operations? Was your loved one the driver or a passenger? Was the truck properly maintained after seventeen years on the road? Did a mechanical failure — brakes, steering, suspension, a hitch — cause or contribute to the loss of control? Was the curve itself safely designed for…

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Jul 16, 2026

13-Day-Old Newborn Ejected and Killed in Ector County Crash on US 385: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Bereaved Families After Failure-to-Yield Collisions on Permian Basin Highways, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurance, the Vehicle Owner for Negligent Entrustment, UM/UIM Coverage Through the Family’s Own Policy, and Corporate Fleet Insurance From Oilfield Service Companies to National Retailers Like Ross Stores Inc. When Commercial Use Is Found, We Preserve the Chevrolet Malibu’s EDR Black-Box Data and Child Safety Seat Evidence Before the Vehicle Is Salvaged Within 30 Days, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Comparative Fault and a 51% Bar, No Caps on Non-Economic Damages in Motor Vehicle Wrongful Death, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County, Texas: When a Newborn Dies on a Permian Basin Highway — Legal Rights After the US 385 and SH 158 Fatal Crashes If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it is the child — thirteen days old, brought into this world and taken out of it on a highway in West Texas, in a crash you never saw coming. Maybe it is the teenager who was behind the wheel, a young person you raised and trusted with a car and who made one turn that can never be undone. Maybe it is the woman who crossed the centerline on SH 158 at six in the morning, or the passenger fighting to recover at Medical Center Hospital, or the man in the Ford pickup who walked away with injuries that seemed minor and may not be. Whoever you are, you are reading this in the hours or days after something that does not make sense yet, and you are looking for someone who can tell you the truth about what happens now. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are trial attorneys who take Texas wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, and this page is the most complete explanation we can give you of what the law does when a crash like this takes a life in Ector County. Nothing here is legal advice for your specific case — that requires a conversation. But everything here is the truth about the law,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Devon Dallas Smith Injured in an 18-Wheeler Accident in Midland County — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial-Truck Crashes, We Pursue the Oilfield Carriers and Interstate Fleets Behind 80,000-Pound Rigs on the I-20 Corridor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the ELD Hours-of-Service Logs and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA Regulations Under 49 CFR and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and $50M+ Total Recovered, Texas Comparative-Fault Rule and Stowers Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Injured in an 18-Wheeler Accident in Midland County, Texas — What You Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this page, someone you love was hurt in a collision with a commercial truck in Midland County — or you were the one in the hospital bed. You may still be in pain. You may be sitting in a house that suddenly feels too quiet. The phone may already be ringing with someone from an insurance company who sounds friendly and is not. We are the trial attorneys at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle 18-wheeler accident cases across Texas, and we wrote this page for one person: you, sitting wherever you are right now, trying to understand what just happened to your life and what comes next. Everything here is legal information — not legal advice — but it is the information we wish every family had before they talked to an adjuster, signed a paper, or let another week pass. Here is the first thing you need to hear. An 18-wheeler collision is not a car accident with a bigger vehicle. It is a fundamentally different event — different physics, different federal regulations, different insurance structures, different evidence, and a different legal fight. The trucking company has a claims team, investigators, and attorneys working to minimize their exposure from the moment the truck stops moving. The day you call a lawyer is the day the clock starts working for you instead of against you.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Shooting of Matthew Cody Kintzel in Andrews, Andrews County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues Wrongful-Death Claims When a Firearm Takes a Life at a Rural Permian Basin Residence, We Secure the Autopsy Report, Ballistics Evidence and Texas Rangers Investigative File Before the Grand Jury Decides, a Grand Jury No-Bill Does Not Bar Civil Recovery Because the Burden of Proof Is Lower, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Shooter, the Property Owner and Any Firearm Entrustor, Body-Camera Footage and Cell Records on Preservation Clocks, 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 County Shooting: What the Family Needs to Know Right Now If you found this page, someone you love is gone — and the Texas Rangers are still investigating. You are sitting with questions that nobody has answered yet: Who pulled the trigger? Will anyone be charged? Is there anything you can do while the criminal investigation runs its course? The answer to that last question is yes — and the steps that matter most are the ones that cannot wait for the Rangers to finish. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases in Texas, and we are writing this page for the one person reading it at 2 a.m. in Andrews, or Seminole, or Midland, or Lubbock, trying to understand what happens next when a shooting death becomes a Texas Rangers case file. Everything on this page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information we wish every family had in the first week, not the sixth month, because by then, evidence that could have decided the case is often gone. What Happened in Andrews County On Friday, June 12, at approximately 8:30 p.m., deputies with the Andrews County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the 2000 block of SE 2700 in Andrews County, Texas. They found a person deceased inside a building on the property. The investigation was subsequently turned over to the Texas Rangers, with assistance from the Andrews County Sheriff’s Office, for further investigation.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Shooting on W. 57th Street: Ector County, Texas Wrongful Death & Negligent Security Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Family of Quincy Devion Price and Surviving Gunshot Victims, We Pursue Property Owners and Security Providers When Foreseeable Criminal Violence Strikes Underprotected Premises, We Preserve Surveillance Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Pull Prior Police Calls for Service, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Premises Liability Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Shooting on W. 57th Street: Your Legal Rights After the Loss of Quincy Devion Price If you are reading this at the kitchen table at 2 a.m., with a funeral to plan and a hospital phone still in your hand — we are talking to you. Not to the internet. To the person whose family was just torn open on W. 57th Street in Ector County, who learned at 3:27 in the morning on January 1, 2026, that a shots-fired call had become a death and a woman fighting for her life at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. To the person who does not yet know that the criminal arrest of the shooter and the civil right to pursue compensation are two completely different things — and that the clock on one of them is already running while the evidence that decides the case is already dying. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who take shooting, negligent-security, and wrongful-death cases in Texas. This page is not a news article. It is the legal map of what happens next: what the law actually gives you, what the property owner’s insurance company is already doing, what evidence is disappearing on a clock measured in days, and what a real case looks like from the inside — built by people who have sat across from insurance adjusters and know their playbook from the other side of the table. What happened to Quincy Devion Price…

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Jul 16, 2026

January 28 Hit-and-Run on Garden City Highway: Roustabout Truck Strikes Pickup at South Fairgrounds Road and Flees Southbound in Midland, Attorney911 Pursues the Oilfield Service Company Behind the Company Logo, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Damaged Pickup for Paint-Transfer Analysis and Canvass for Surveillance Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases It, Texas Law Treats Fleeing an Accident Scene as Negligence Per Se and Conscious Indifference Supporting Punitive Damages, UM Coverage Applies When the At-Fault Driver Flees and Physical Contact Occurred, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Truck That Hit You on Garden City Highway Is Gone — But Your Options Are Not The morning of January 28, 2026, started like most mornings in Midland. The oilfield was already running. By 8:25 a.m., the roustabout trucks, water haulers, and crew transports were moving through the south side of town, running the corridors that connect Midland to the Permian Basin’s web of well sites and staging areas. You were at or near the intersection of Garden City Highway and South Fairgrounds Road — a stretch of road that sees heavy oilfield service traffic every single day. A roustabout truck — a commercial oilfield service vehicle bearing a company logo — collided with your pickup. And then it was gone, heading south on South Fairgrounds Road, leaving you on the side of one of Midland’s busiest oilfield arteries. More than two months have passed. The Midland Police Department Traffic Division is asking the public for help identifying the company logo on that truck. The at-fault commercial vehicle and its operating entity remain unidentified. If you were in that pickup — or someone you love was — you are reading this because you have questions, and the answers matter more now than they did on January 28. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. This page is written for you, by the senior trial attorney of a firm that handles Texas commercial-vehicle, hit-and-run, and catastrophic-injury cases. Everything that follows is specific to what happened on Garden City Highway and…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Hit-and-Run on FM 1788: 20-Year-Old Motorcyclist Ricky Scott Riojas Killed When a Truck-and-Trailer Driver Turned Left Into His Path and Fled the Scene in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Unidentified Operator, the Carrier or Owner Behind That Truck, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hit-and-Run Wrongful-Death Cases, We Move to Preserve Trailer Debris, Motorcycle EDR Data and Oilfield Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases It, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Exemplary Damages for Fleeing a Fatal Scene, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal FM 1788 Hit-and-Run: A 20-Year-Old Is Dead, the Driver Is Gone, and the Evidence Is Disappearing If you found this page, you are probably living inside the worst week of your life. Someone you love — a son, a brother, a friend — left on a motorcycle and did not come back. The person who took him from you did not stop. Did not call for help. Did not turn around. Just drove away into the dark and left a 20-year-old on a rural road in Andrews County, Texas, before the sun came up. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on FM 1788 on August 7, 2025 — what the law gives your family, what evidence is already vanishing, and what we would do if you called us today. This is not a sales pitch. It is a roadmap, written by trial lawyers who have spent decades in courtrooms, for the family of someone killed in a hit-and-run that the driver thought he could walk away from. What we know from the preliminary investigation is this: at approximately 5:40 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, a 2014 Harley-Davidson Street Glide was traveling southbound on FM 1788 in Andrews County. An unknown truck hauling a trailer was traveling northbound. The truck turned left onto Southeast County Road 8000 — directly across the motorcycle’s path. The motorcycle collided with the trailer. The truck kept driving. It has not been identified. “The driver of the second vehicle…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Chevrolet Silverado Rollover on West Murphy Street in Odessa, Ector County, March 25, 2025 — One 16-Year-Old Passenger Ejected and Killed, the 16-Year-Old Driver Transported to a Lubbock Level I Trauma Center: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Rollover and Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Household Policy, Negligent Entrustment by the Vehicle Owner and the Manufacturer’s Occupant-Retention Systems Under FMVSS 206 and 216, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Teen-Fatality Cases, We Preserve the Silverado’s EDR Black-Box Data, Door-Latch Assemblies and Roof Structure Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped, 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

Odessa, Ector County Rollover Crash: A 16-Year-Old Dead, Another Fighting for His Life in Lubbock If you are reading this at 2 a.m. from a kitchen table in Odessa — or from a waiting room at UMC in Lubbock, 150 miles from home — you already know the worst part. What you may not know is that the first report from the scene is almost never the whole story. Texas DPS wrote down what it could see in the hours after the truck rolled: a Chevrolet Silverado on West Murphy Street, two sixteen-year-old boys, no seatbelts, one ejected and gone, one taken by ambulance or helicopter to a trauma center far enough away that the drive itself tells you how bad the injuries are. That report is the beginning of the investigation, not the end of it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful-death cases and catastrophic car and truck crash cases in Texas. This page is written for one person: the parent, the sibling, the guardian who is sitting with a folder of hospital paperwork and a phone full of missed calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not. Everything here is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information a family needs in the first days after a crash like this one, before evidence disappears and before anything is signed. What Happened on West Murphy Street On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at about 5:00 p.m., two sixteen-year-old boys…

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