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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal FM 1788 Rollover Crash in Andrews County: Patricia Montezuma Busso, 52, Killed When an At-Fault Driver Failed to Yield on a Left Turn Across Oncoming Traffic on a Rural Farm-to-Market Highway Where the Nearest Trauma Center Is 35 Miles South in Midland — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Preserve the Vehicle and Pull the EDR Black-Box Data Before the Salvage Yard Scraps It, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and Automakers Including BMW Group When Rollover Roof-Crush and Restraint-System Failure Turn a Survivable Crash Fatal, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on FM 1788: What Happened and What It Means for the Family If you are reading this because someone you love was taken from you on Farm-to-Market 1788 near Andrews, Texas — we want you to hear something first. The woman who died that Thursday morning was traveling lawfully southbound, doing what people in Andrews County do every day — driving a road she probably knew by heart. She was not at fault. The legal responsibility for this crash rests on the driver who turned left across oncoming traffic without yielding, and on the insurance system that will now try to pay the family as little as it can get away with. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death claims and catastrophic car crash cases across Texas, and we are writing this for one reason: so that the family of the woman killed on FM 1788 understands, in plain language, exactly what their rights are, what the insurance company is already doing, and what evidence is disappearing while they grieve. Here is what the public reporting tells us happened. On a Thursday morning at approximately 7:30 a.m., 52-year-old Patricia Montezuma Busso of Andrews was driving southbound on FM 1788 near the intersection with SE 8000. A northbound vehicle operated by another driver attempted to turn left — and in doing so, turned directly into Ms. Busso’s path. The collision caused her vehicle to roll over. She was pronounced dead at the scene when…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Drunk-Driving Rollover on Midland’s Loop 250 Claims Angela Wrinkle, 57 — Attorney911 Pursues Intoxication Manslaughter Wrongful Death Claims, We Investigate the Bar That Over-Served the Driver and the Jeep Gladiator’s Rollover Crashworthiness Before Evidence Is Scrapped, Texas Dram Shop Act and Gross Negligence Exemplary Damages in a State That Criminally Charges the Offense, We Pull the BAC Toxicology, the Police Reconstruction Report and the EDR Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Passenger Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, 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 Drunk Driver Kills a Passenger in Midland, Texas — Your Family’s Rights After an Intoxication Wrongful Death If you are reading this because someone you love was killed riding in a vehicle driven by someone who was intoxicated, you need to hear something before anything else: what happened was not an accident. It was a crime. And under Texas law, it is also a civil wrong — one that can carry consequences far beyond a criminal charge and a prison sentence. The person who chose to drive drunk is responsible. But so may be the bar or restaurant that kept pouring drinks into someone who was already obviously drunk. And so may be the manufacturer of the vehicle, if the roof that was supposed to protect your loved one collapsed when it should have held. You are probably hearing from an insurance adjuster. That person sounds sympathetic. They are not your friend. They are doing a job, and that job is to close your family’s claim for the smallest number the company can justify. Everything on this page is here to give you the knowledge to see that process clearly — to understand what evidence exists, how fast it is disappearing, what your case is actually worth, and why the first phone call you make may matter more than any call after it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death claims and catastrophic injury cases across Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years…

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Jul 16, 2026

Liquid Nitrogen Tanker Rollover on FM 1788 in Midland, Midland County, Texas: Commercial Hazmat Truck Crash Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice in the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, We Pursue the Carriers and Hazmat Haulers Behind Division 2.2 Cryogenic Transport, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite and Secure the DPS Crash Report, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery, Texas Comparative-Fault and Stowers Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at FM 1788 and County Road 58 — and Why a Hazmat Tanker Rollover Is Not an Ordinary Truck Crash A commercial tanker truck carrying liquid nitrogen collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1788 and County Road 58 in Midland County. The tanker rolled over. The Midland Fire Department dispatched a hazardous materials response team. Both drivers were transported to Midland Memorial Hospital in stable condition. The intersection closed while hazmat crews secured the area, and the Texas Department of Public Safety opened a crash investigation. If you were in that pickup — or someone you love was — you are reading this because the word “stable” sounded like relief, and something about the way the hours after the crash unfolded did not feel right. We understand that feeling. It is the same feeling that drives most of the calls we take: the ER said you were fine, the adjuster called before the adrenaline wore off, and the whole machinery of the other side’s defense started turning before you even had time to think. That is exactly the moment we are built for. FM 1788 is not a highway designed for the traffic it carries. It is a farm-to-market road cutting through Midland County’s industrial and oilfield corridor — the same corridor that moves the Permian Basin’s lifeblood: water haulers, frac sand transporters, crude oil tankers, and cryogenic nitrogen haulers used in well stimulation and enhanced oil recovery. The intersection with County Road…

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Jul 16, 2026

Stop-Sign Violation at Knox Ave and W. University in Ector County Kills Tyson Cooper Avery, Injures Rachel Avery and Three Minors: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death and Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Liability Carrier Plus UM/UIM Recovery When the Negligent Driver Does Not Survive, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data From Both Vehicles Before It Overwrites, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault 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

Ector County Fatal Crash on FM 2020: What Your Family Needs to Know After Two Deaths and Four Injuries at the Knox Avenue Stop Sign If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was in the Yukon on FM 2020 Friday night — or because you lost someone at that intersection on Knox Avenue — you are in the worst hours of your life, and the last thing you need is a law firm talking down to you. So we will talk straight. Two people are dead. Four more are hurt, three of them children. The man who ran the stop sign is one of the dead, which changes everything about how recovery works in Texas. The insurance company already has a file open. The tow yard already has both vehicles. The black-box data inside those vehicles is already on a clock. And the decisions you make in the next few days will decide whether your family has the evidence and the coverage to pursue what Texas law says you are owed. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle car accident cases and wrongful death claims across Texas, and this page is written for the family sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Ector County trying to understand what happens now. It is legal information, not legal advice. Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. But everything here is true, it is specific to your situation, and it is written by people who…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Harley-Davidson Crash on SH 349 Near Midland, Texas — Casey Michael Smith, 41, Pronounced Dead After His Motorcycle Hit a Gravel Strip and Struck a Utility Pole at 2:42 AM, Felony DWI and Vehicular Homicide Charges Filed — Attorney911 Pursues the Impaired Driver, Any Bar That Overserved Them, and the Insurers Behind Both in DWI Motorcycle Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Bar Surveillance and POS Records Before the 30-Day Overwrite Window, Texas Dram Shop Liability and Wrongful Death Law with Gross Negligence Exposing Exemplary Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Motorcycle Crash on SH 349 in Midland: Your Family’s Rights After a DWI Wrongful Death If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on State Highway 349 in the hours before dawn on December 28, 2025, you are in the worst hours a family can live through. The phone call has already come. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already been to the scene. And somewhere in Midland County, a prosecutor is building a criminal case against the man whose intoxication investigators believe caused the crash that took your rider’s life. Here is what no one has told you yet: the criminal case and your family’s case are two separate things. The criminal charges — felony vehicular homicide, felony DWI — are the state’s case, built for punishment, and they will not pay your family a dollar. Your family’s case is a civil wrongful death action, and it runs on its own timeline, its own evidence, and its own set of rules that most families never learn about until the evidence they needed has already disappeared. We are writing this for you — the spouse, the parent, the child, the sibling who is sitting at a kitchen table in Midland at two in the morning, staring at a folder of funeral expenses and a phone that an insurance adjuster has already called. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, and what follows is everything we…

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Jul 16, 2026

13-Day-Old Baby and Teen Killed in Side-Impact Crash on US 385 Near SH 158 in Ector County, Texas — Wrongful Death & Motor Vehicle Accident Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate Under Texas Negligent-Entrustment Law and General Motors on Crashworthiness and Restraint-System Claims If FMVSS Inspection Reveals Failure, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data From Both the Malibu and the Ram Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine With No Statutory Damages Cap in Motor-Vehicle 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 Crash on US 385: A 13-Day-Old Baby and a Teenager Are Dead — What the Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and What Families Must Do Now If you found this page, you are likely sitting in one of two places: a waiting room at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, or a kitchen table in Mississippi where the phone call came from Texas and the world stopped. A thirteen-day-old baby is gone. A seventeen-year-old is gone. Four other people are hurt. And the thing that will determine whether anyone is held accountable — the physical evidence, the vehicles, the data inside them — is disappearing on a clock that started the moment the crash happened. Not the two-year statute of limitations. Days. Sometimes hours. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas. We are not your lawyers on this crash, and nothing on this page is legal advice for your specific situation. What this page is, instead, is everything we know about how a case like this is actually built — the law, the evidence, the insurance, the medicine, the timeline, and the plays the other side is already running — so that whatever you decide to do next, you do it with your eyes open. The call is free. The number is 1-888-ATTY-911. We answer it at 2 a.m. What Happened on US Highway 385 Near the SH 158 Service Road On a Thursday afternoon at…

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Jul 16, 2026

Tire Blowout on a Pitch-Dark Permian Basin Highway: Three Lubbock Residents, Daniel Lindsey, Chelsea Clark and Marcos Campos, Killed When Their Tahoe Struck a Kenworth Tractor-Trailer That Could Not Clear the Roadway on SH 349 in Martin County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Operating Carrier and PACCAR Inc Behind the 2016 Kenworth, We Image the ECM Black-Box Data and Pull the ELD Telematics, Tire Evidence and Maintenance Records Before the Data Overwrites and the Carrier Disposes of the Blowout Tire, FMCSA Emergency Warning Requirements Under 49 CFR 390-399 and Whether Reflective Triangles Placed at 10, 100 and 200 Feet Give a Driver Enough Time at Highway Speed in Total Darkness, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Crashes, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Where the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar and the Seatbelt Finding Become the Central Liability Fight, 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

Three Lives Lost on a Dark Permian Basin Highway: The SH 349 Tractor-Trailer Crash If you are reading this, someone you love may have been in that 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe on State Highway 349 before dawn on August 16, 2024. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Lubbock, or in Stanton, or somewhere between, trying to understand how three people you cared about died on a highway they had probably driven a hundred times. You may have already heard from an insurance adjuster who sounded sympathetic. You may have already been told that the people in the SUV were not wearing seatbelts, as if that fact ends the conversation. It does not. And that is why we are writing this. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial truck crash cases across Texas, and we are writing to you as the senior trial team that has spent decades building wrongful death cases against trucking companies, oilfield haulers, and the insurance carriers that stand behind them. What happened on SH 349 near mile marker 300 in Martin County is not a simple accident. It is a commercial vehicle crash with three fatalities, a tire blowout, a tractor-trailer that could not fully clear the roadway, and a set of warning devices that may or may not have been adequate for the conditions. The difference between those two things — “adequate” and “not adequate” — is where the entire case lives. Here is what we know from the…

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Jul 16, 2026

San Angelo Woman Dies in Ector County Semi-Truck Crash: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Midland’s Permian Basin Trucking Corridors, We Pursue the Carriers and Owner-Operators Behind 80,000-Pound Rigs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with the Stowers Duty on the Insurer — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Semi-Truck Crash Kills San Angelo Woman: What the Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this page, someone you love was killed in a collision with an 18-wheeler in Ector County. She was from San Angelo, which means she was traveling through — on US 87 up through Big Spring and east on I-20, or maybe cutting across State Highway 158 through Sterling City — when a semi-truck crossed her path on one of the most dangerous commercial-trucking corridors in Texas. She did not make it home. And now you are sitting with a grief that has no bottom, trying to understand what happens next while the world around you is already moving. We want you to hear this first: what happened to your family is not just a tragedy. It is a legal event with a clock on it. Evidence is already disappearing. The trucking company has already notified its insurer. An adjuster may already be working to shape the narrative of this crash — and everything they do in the first days and weeks is designed to minimize what the company owes you. The law gives you the power to stop that, to freeze the evidence, to demand accountability, and to recover the full measure of what this death has cost your family. But that power shrinks every day you wait. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking wrongful death cases in Texas, including the Permian Basin…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way I-20 Crash & Wrongful Death Near Big Spring, Texas: A Ford F-350 Traveling the Wrong Direction on the Interstate Killed 3 and Injured 50 Andrews High School Band Members — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Employer If the F-350 Was an Oilfield Work Truck, the Motorcoach Operators Under Common-Carrier Duty, and Ford Motor Company, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Allocates Coverage Across 53 Victims, We Extract the F-350 EDR Data, Motorcoach Black-Box and Big Spring Surveillance Video Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Gross Negligence From Seven Ignored Signs Supporting Punitive Damages, the Stowers Doctrine to Hold Insurers to Their Duty, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring, Texas I-20 Wrong-Way Crash: What the NTSB Found and What It Means for Your Family If you found this page, someone you love was probably hurt or killed in a wrong-way crash — or you are living with the injuries yourself. You may be sitting in a hospital room, or at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a folder of bills that suddenly became unpayable, and you are trying to understand what happens next. You may have heard that the National Transportation Safety Board finished its investigation of the November 2021 wrong-way collision on I-20 in Big Spring — the one that killed three people and injured fifty others when a pickup truck driving the wrong direction hit buses carrying the Andrews High School band. You may have heard that the driver was not impaired, was not on his phone, and that the NTSB could not figure out why he went the wrong way. And you may be wondering whether any of that makes your case harder. It does not. And this page is going to tell you exactly why — in the plain language a senior trial attorney would use sitting across your kitchen table, not the language of a legal textbook. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas. We are writing this page as a resource for anyone who has been through what the Andrews community went through, or who is facing a wrong-way…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway in Odessa: Fred Giles, 65, Air-Lifted to Lubbock After a Left-Turning Honda Civic Failed to Yield and Fled the Scene, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner and Every Insurance Policy Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Motorcycle Cases, We Secure the Honda Civic’s Black-Box Data and Intersection CCTV Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Failure-to-Yield and Stop-and-Render-Aid Law with Exemplary Damages for Hit-and-Run Flight and False-Report Cover-Up, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway — Your Legal Rights After a Driver Flees the Scene If you found this page, someone you love may be in a hospital bed in Lubbock right now, and the person who put them there drove away. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happens next — not as a sales pitch, but as the straight legal truth from a trial team that has spent decades inside these cases. The crash happened at Andrews Highway and University on a Saturday night in March. A southbound Honda Civic turned left across a northbound Harley-Davidson, failed to yield, and then ran. The rider — a 65-year-old man — is now fighting for his life at a trauma center hours from home. The driver and a second person have been arrested. That is the surface. Beneath it is a case that is stronger, and more urgent, than most people realize. Here is why, and here is what to do about it. What Happened at Andrews Highway and University on March 14, 2026 Andrews Highway is the spine of Odessa’s commercial corridor — a north-south arterial lined with retail, restaurants, and the heavy traffic of a Permian Basin oil town that never quite slows down. At its intersection with University Avenue, the road is signalized, multi-lane, and built for volume. On Saturday, March 14, 2026, at approximately 8:49 p.m., a 65-year-old man was riding a black Harley-Davidson motorcycle northbound on Andrews Highway. A…

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