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Jul 16, 2026

Liborio Garcia, 67, Killed in a Midland Hit-and-Run on Midland Drive: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Midland County Pedestrian Fatality Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Liability Insurer, and Ford Motor Company as the Automaker Behind the 2021 Ford Escape That Shattered Its Windshield on Impact, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data, Summer Hill Apartments Surveillance Footage and Police Body-Camera Records Before the 30-Day Overwrite Erases Them, Texas Wrongful-Death Act, Survival Action for Conscious Pain and Suffering, Gross Negligence and Conscious Indifference for Fleeing Without Rendering Aid, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Pedestrian Killed in Hit-and-Run on Midland Drive: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Fatal Crash If your family is reading this, a 67-year-old man you love is gone. He was crossing Midland Drive on a Tuesday evening — an ordinary act in the town where he lived — and a vehicle struck him and kept going. By the time officers arrived at the intersection of Midland Drive and Dengar Avenue, he was deceased in the northbound lanes. The driver and a passenger fled on foot. Hours later, a 23-year-old man was found at a nearby apartment and admitted to police that he was behind the wheel and that he left the scene without stopping to help. We are not going to pretend that words on a screen can fix what happened. What we can do — and what this page does — is tell you exactly what your family’s legal rights are, what evidence is disappearing while you grieve, what the insurance company is already doing, and what a civil wrongful death case looks like in Midland County, Texas. The criminal arrest gives you accountability. It does not give you compensation. Those are two separate fights, and the civil one has a clock on it that most families never hear about until it is too late. This is legal information, not legal advice. Every case depends on its own facts. But everything below is written for you — the spouse, the child, the parent of a man who deserved…

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Jul 16, 2026

Andrews Highway Head-On Collision in Midland, Texas: One Person Trapped 20 Minutes in a High-Energy Frontal Impact on a Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor Where the At-Fault Vehicle Could Be a Commercial Service Truck, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Pursues the Driver Who Crossed the Center Line and Every Insurer Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Head-On Crashes, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data From Both Vehicles Before the Overwrite and Preserve the Midland Fire Department Scene Photos, Texas Comparative-Fault Rule and the Statute of Limitations Running, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims Including $2.5M+ in Motor-Vehicle Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Head-On Collision on Andrews Highway: What Victims and Families Need to Know Now If you are reading this, someone you love was trapped inside a vehicle on Andrews Highway while Midland firefighters spent twenty minutes cutting them out. You may be sitting in a hospital waiting room right now, or you may be at a kitchen table at two in the morning with a folder of bills you do not understand yet. Either way, the same clock is running — and it is not on your side. On Monday, April 7, 2026, the Midland Fire Department responded to a head-on collision on Andrews Highway involving two vehicles. One person was pinned inside a vehicle. Firefighters worked for approximately twenty minutes to extricate that person. Public reporting does not yet identify either driver, specify the cause of the collision, or detail the injuries the extricated person sustained. But the severity of the mechanism — a head-on impact with entrapment sufficient to require extended extrication — tells those of us who build these cases exactly what we are looking at: a high-energy collision with significant injury potential. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC, and this page is written for one person: the victim or the family member who is trying to understand what just happened to them on Andrews Highway and what to do about it before the evidence disappears and the insurance adjuster takes control of the story. We are not the counsel of record on this…

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Jul 16, 2026

Intoxication Assault on Andrews Highway: A Drunk Driver in a Dodge Ram Triggered a Four-Vehicle Chain Crash in Odessa, Texas, Hospitalizing a Harley-Davidson Motorcyclist and Van Driver — Attorney911 Traces the Alcohol Service Backward for Texas Dram Shop Liability, Pulls the BAC Toxicology and the Ram’s Event-Data-Recorder Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped and Corridor Surveillance Overwrites, Pursues the At-Fault Insurer, the Bar That Over-Served, and Stellantis as the Vehicle Manufacturer, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered by the Firm, Texas Gross-Negligence Doctrine for Punitive Damages, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on Andrews Highway in Odessa — and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this because someone you love was on Andrews Highway on a Thursday evening in Odessa, and a pickup truck driven by a man who should never have been behind the wheel changed everything in the seconds it took for four vehicles to collide at the intersection of Yukon. The Odessa Police Department charged the driver of that Dodge Ram with intoxication assault — a third-degree felony under Texas law — which means investigators already concluded that his impairment caused serious bodily injury to another person. That charge is not your civil case. But it is the strongest piece of evidence your civil case will ever have, and the insurance company knows it. We are Attorney911 — Legal Emergency Lawyers. We handle drunk-driving injury cases in Texas. And the first thing you need to understand is this: the proof that this crash was his fault is already being gathered by the police and the Ector County prosecutor — but the proof that could make your family’s case worth what it should be worth is disappearing, right now, on a clock you cannot see. Surveillance footage from the businesses lining Andrews Highway overwrites itself in days. The blood-alcohol test results sit in a crime lab file that no one will hand you voluntarily. The event data recorder inside that Dodge Ram — the black box that recorded his speed, his braking, his throttle position…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Dodge Charger Rollover Fire on Northwest County Road, Andrews County, Texas: Passenger Paola Salazar Killed When a Speeding Charger Left the Roadway, Struck a Boulder and Burned — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Manufacturer Stellantis on the Charger’s Fuel-System Integrity Under FMVSS 301, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Lock Down the Vehicle With 72-Hour Spoliation Letters Before the Salvage Yard Scraps It, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Stowers Doctrine Exposing the Insurer Beyond Policy Limits, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews County Fatal Crash: What Happened on Northwest County Road — and What the Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Dodge Charger on Northwest County Road on the morning of March 23, 2026 — we are talking directly to you. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Andrews, or in a waiting room at University Medical Center in Lubbock, or on the phone with a funeral home, trying to understand how a Sunday morning drive ended in a fire and a death. You are in the worst hours of your life, and the people who will soon try to limit what your family can recover are already moving. The driver’s insurance company has already opened a file. The vehicle is sitting in an impound yard, and every day it sits there, the proof of what happened to Paola Salazar is decaying — or being prepared for the salvage crusher. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — he knows how to find the story the evidence tells. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — and he now sits on your…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fiery Head-On Collision & Mass Wrongful Death on a Rural West Texas Highway: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Head-On Collision and Wrongful-Death Litigation, Nine Killed When an Impaired Driver Crossed the Centerline on FM 1788 in Andrews County, Texas — We Pursue Stellantis on Pickup Crashworthiness and Fuel-System Fire-Origin Theories, We Investigate the Institution That Loaded Nine Into a Transit Van, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Victim Cases, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Preserve the Fire Evidence Before the Vehicles Are Scrapped, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine and the Gross-Negligence Standard for Impaired-Driving 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

The Crash on FM 1788: Nine Lives Lost in a Fiery Head-On Collision If you are reading this because someone you love was in that van — a son or daughter on the golf team, a coach you trusted, a friend who was supposed to come home from a tournament — we are not going to begin with the legal analysis. We are going to begin with what we know happened, because you deserve to hear it stated plainly, by someone who has spent a career sitting across kitchen tables from families who lost everything in a single moment on a West Texas highway. On March 15, 2022, a Dodge pickup truck crossed the centerline on Farm-to-Market Road 1788 in Andrews County, Texas, and collided head-on with a Ford Transit van carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team. The team was returning home to Hobbs, New Mexico, from a tournament at Midland College. Both vehicles burst into flames. Nine people died — six student-athletes, the coach who was driving the van, the pickup’s driver, and his 13-year-old son who was riding as a passenger. Two students survived with serious injuries. The road, the fire, the speed, the flat Permian Basin terrain stretching in every direction — none of it gave anyone a chance. What followed was an investigation that initially got the most basic question wrong. The National Transportation Safety Board first reported that the 13-year-old boy was driving the pickup. Months later, DNA testing proved otherwise:…

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Jul 16, 2026

Silverado Runs the Stop Sign at West 16th and Tripp in Ector County, Texas — Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident, 2 Dead When a Full-Size Chevrolet Pickup T-Boned a Compact VW Polo in the 5:10 A.M. Permian Basin Commute, Oscar Hernandez and Victoria Rosales Killed at the Scene — Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver, the Employer Behind the Pre-Dawn Oilfield Run, the Dram-Shop Provider If Toxicology Confirms Impairment, and General Motors on Vehicle-Defect Theory, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data, DPS Toxicology and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for the Families, Punitive Damages for Conscious Indifference If Intoxication Is Proven, 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: Two Lives Lost at West 16th Street and Tripp Avenue If you are reading this, someone you love is gone. Maybe you got the call before sunrise. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen in Odessa, or in a home across the border in Mexico, trying to understand how a morning that started like any other ended with two names on a crash report and a silence that will not fill back in. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what your family’s rights are under Texas law, and what is disappearing — right now, while you read — that you need to save before it is gone. At approximately 5:10 a.m. on May 23, 2026, a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was traveling south on Tripp Avenue in Ector County, approaching the intersection of West 16th Street. A Volkswagen Polo was traveling west on West 16th Street, heading toward that same intersection. The Silverado entered the intersection without stopping. It struck the right side of the Polo. The impact was violent enough to propel both vehicles off the road and into the southwest corner of the intersection, where they crashed through a fence and into a utility phone box. The driver of the Polo, 39-year-old Oscar Hernandez, and his passenger, 18-year-old Victoria Rosales — both of Mexico — died at the scene. The driver of the Silverado sustained minor injuries and was taken to the hospital. The Texas Department of…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run DWI Motorcycle Crash at University and Andrews in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — Drunk Driver with Three Prior DWI Convictions Ran a Red Light in a Jeep Commander Into a 35-Year-Old Motorcyclist, the Mass Disparity Between a 5,000-Pound SUV and an Unprotected Rider Causing Life-Threatening Injuries Transferred to a Lubbock Trauma Center, Attorney911 Pursues the Dram Shop That Overserved a Habitual DWI Offender and the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer, We Image the Jeep’s EDR Before Impound Release and Pull Bar Surveillance Before the Overwrite Erases It, Texas Gross-Negligence and Exemplary-Damages Doctrine for Repeat DWI Hit-and-Run, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Drunk Driver With Three Prior DWI Convictions Ran a Red Light in Odessa — and a Motorcyclist Is Fighting for His Life in Lubbock If you are reading this from a hospital hallway in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Odessa where the phone just rang with news no family is ready to hear, we want you to understand one thing before anything else: what happened to your motorcyclist at 2:04 a.m. on August 9 at University Boulevard and Andrews Highway was not an accident. It was a choice — a choice made by a man who had already been convicted of driving drunk three times before, who got behind the wheel of a silver Jeep Commander again, who ran a red light in the commercial heart of Odessa, and who then ran away on foot while a 35-year-old man lay in the street with life-threatening injuries. The Odessa Police Department arrested him. He admitted to hitting the motorcycle. Officers determined he was drunk. They found nearly five ounces of marijuana in his possession. He was charged with Intoxication Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury, Collision Involving Personal Injury, Possession of Marijuana, and Evading Arrest. He is in the Ector County Law Enforcement Center. That is the criminal case — and it matters — but the criminal case will not pay for the care your motorcyclist needs. It will not cover the helicopter or ambulance ride to Lubbock, the trauma surgery, the ICU stay, the rehabilitation, the lost wages,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Train-Truck Collision in Pecos, Texas: Two Union Pacific Employees Dead After a Heavy-Haul Tractor-Trailer Stopped on Active Tracks — Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier and Cargo-Securement Entity Behind the 68-MPH Derailment That Launched Equipment Into an Occupied Building, We Pull the EDR Data, ELD Records and Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, FELA Claims and FMCSA Grade-Crossing Rules Under 49 CFR 392.10, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo Excellent 8.2 Rating, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos, Texas Train-Truck Collision: What Happened and What Your Family Needs to Know If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on a Union Pacific railroad crew in West Texas and did not come home — or because you were inside a building in downtown Pecos when heavy equipment came through the wall — you are in a moment that no one prepared you for. Two railroad employees were killed. A train derailed. A tractor-trailer sat on the tracks for approximately one minute before the collision, and the National Transportation Safety Board is trying to determine why. You have probably already heard from someone representing a railroad interest or an insurance company. You may have been asked to give a statement. You may have been told that workers’ compensation or railroad death benefits are your only option. They are not. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial-vehicle and wrongful-death cases in Texas. This page is written for you: the family of a killed railroad employee, the person who was inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the collision sent heavy equipment through the structure, or the friend who is trying to help someone who cannot help themselves right now. Everything here is specific to what happened on December 18, 2024, at a grade crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas — and to the legal rights that exist because of the unique way this collision unfolded. Why Was a Tractor-Trailer Stopped…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way Driver Killed 3 and Injured 37 Andrews Band Students in a Near-Head-On Interstate 20 Collision Near Big Spring, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Motorcoach Mass-Casualty Case, We Pursue Ford Motor Company on F-350 Fuel-System Integrity and Post-Crash Fire, the Motorcoach Manufacturer on Crashworthiness for a 2005 Model Predating the Federal Seatbelt Rule, and the School District and Highway Agency Under Texas Tort Claims Act Notice Deadlines That May Already Be Running, We Secure the EDR Black-Box Data, the NTSB Factual Report and the 16-Year Fleet Vehicle’s Maintenance Records Before Evidence Is Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases Involving Minors, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ for Injury Victims, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Claims Govern the Three Deaths — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Andrews Band Bus Crash on Interstate 20 Near Big Spring: What Families Need to Know If your child was on the Andrews High School band bus on November 19, 2021, you already know the worst day of your family’s life. You know the phone call. You know the drive to the hospital. You know the moment you saw your son or daughter in a bed they should never have been in, on a Tuesday afternoon when they should have been playing music at a football game. What you may not know is that the legal clock on your family’s rights started ticking that same day — and some of those clocks may have already stopped. We are writing this because we have seen what happens when families in crisis trust the system to do right by them. The school district’s insurer is professional and patient. The wrong-way driver’s estate has an auto policy that someone is already calculating down to the penny. The motorcoach manufacturer is a corporation with lawyers who have defended these exact crashes before. None of them called you. None of them told you about the Texas Tort Claims Act notice deadline that ran out approximately six months after the crash. None of them told you that the National Transportation Safety Board’s conclusion about what happened will never be allowed inside a courtroom. None of them mentioned that the 2005 motorcoach carrying your child likely had no passenger seatbelts — and that the manufacturer may answer…

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Jul 16, 2026

NTSB-Confirmed Wrong-Way Truck Crash on I-20 at Exit 179 in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas — A Commercial Truck Passed Seven Signs Before a Fiery Collision With an Andrews ISD School Bus Carrying Andrews High School Band Members, No Intoxication, No Phone Use, No Determined Cause: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Pursue the Carrier and Operating Entity Under 49 CFR 390-399, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Commercial-Truck Cases, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, Truck-Crash Recovery ($2.5M+) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Gross-Negligence Exemplary Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring, Texas: The NTSB Report on the 2021 Andrews ISD Bus Crash on I-20 — What It Means for Victims and Families If you are reading this, someone you love was on that bus. Or you are the one who survived it. You may have seen the National Transportation Safety Board’s report — the one that says a commercial truck drove the wrong way down Interstate 20 past seven traffic signs, that the driver was not drunk and was not on the phone, and that the government’s top crash investigators could not figure out why. You may be wondering what that report means for your family. You may be wondering whether it is too late to do anything about it. This page is here to answer those questions — all of them — in plain language, from a trial team that has spent decades inside the machinery of commercial trucking litigation. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial-vehicle, catastrophic-injury, and wrongful-death cases in Texas. We are not writing this page as the lawyers on this specific crash — we are writing it as the resource you need right now, at the kitchen table at 2 a.m., when the questions will not stop and the answers have not come. What we can tell you up front: the NTSB report is the most powerful liability document a family in your position could ask for. It establishes, through a federal investigation, that a truck drove the wrong way on…

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