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Aug 14, 2026

13-Year-Old Killed in Multi-Vehicle Crash Near Monahans, TX: Attorney911 Pursues Every At-Fault Driver and the Oilfield Carriers Behind Permian Basin Truck Traffic, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite and Pull the DPS Crash Report Before the Scene Evidence Fades, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values a Child’s Wrongful Death, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Under the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar With Stowers Settlement Leverage, 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

Your Child Was Killed on a West Texas Road — Here Is What Happens Now You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. Your 13-year-old is gone. The crash happened southwest of Monahans, on a road that carries oilfield trucks and passenger cars and the ordinary traffic of Ward County, and multiple vehicles were involved, and the full picture of what happened is still being assembled by the Texas Department of Public Safety. You do not have the crash report yet. You may not even know the names of everyone who was driving. What you know is that your child is dead, and the world has not stopped, and there are things happening right now — evidence disappearing, insurance adjusters preparing to call, records being overwritten — that will shape whether your family ever gets answers and accountability. We are going to tell you the truth about all of it. Not to pressure you. Not to sell you anything. But because the clock that governs your child’s case started the moment they died, and some of the evidence that could prove what happened is dying on a schedule measured in days, not years. You do not need to make any decision today. You do need to know what is at stake while you grieve. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Everything here is specific to Texas law and to Ward County. If you want to talk to us — just talk, no…

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Aug 14, 2026

Fatal I-20 18-Wheeler Rear-End Crash in Gregg County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Nighttime Tractor-Trailer Wrongful Death on the East Texas Freight Corridor — We Pursue the Carriers and Trailer Manufacturers Behind Conspicuity Failures and Underride Guard Defects Under FMVSS 223/224 and 49 CFR 390-399, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Law with Comparative Fault, 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

When the Preliminary Report Blames Your Loved One — and the Truth Is Still Buried in the Truck’s Black Box If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was killed on Interstate 20 in Gregg County, and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper wrote in a preliminary report that the crash was your loved one’s fault — stop. Take a breath. That report is the beginning of the investigation, not the end of it. It was written in the dark, at a scene lit by emergency flashers, before the truck’s electronic data was downloaded, before the driver’s hours-of-service logs were examined, before the trailer’s taillights and reflective tape were tested, and before anyone measured whether that tractor-trailer was moving at highway speed or sitting stopped in a travel lane. We have spent 27+ years in courtrooms — including federal court — proving that preliminary reports are wrong, and that the real story lives in records the trucking company controls and can legally erase. The crash happened at 1:13 a.m. on a Friday. A 39-year-old man from Longview was driving west on I-20 near mile marker 583, close to Old Highway 135, when his Chevrolet Camaro collided with the rear of a westbound tractor-trailer. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The commercial truck driver reported no injuries. The trucking company, the trailer configuration, and the operating authority were not identified in the initial reporting. DPS attributed the crash to failure to control speed. That is…

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Aug 14, 2026

Wrongful Death on Highway 64: FedEx Driver Hidekel Cornelio Killed Near Chapel Hill, Smith County, TX When an At-Fault Driver Passed in a No-Passing Zone on the Wrong Side of the Roadway, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and Every Available Coverage Path Including UM/UIM and Workers’ Compensation Death Benefits, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data, FedEx Telematics and the Criminal Discovery File Before Evidence Is Lost, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Survival-Action Doctrine with Negligence Per Se From the Traffic-Code Violations, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

FedEx Driver Killed on Highway 64 Near Chapel Hill: What the Manslaughter Indictment Means for the Family’s Civil Case If you are reading this because someone you love was killed while working — killed doing nothing more dangerous than stepping out of a delivery truck on a Tuesday afternoon in East Texas — then you already know the worst part is not the shock. The worst part is the silence that follows. The phone stops ringing. The flowers dry. And the questions that nobody has answered yet start pressing: what happens now, who is responsible in a way that actually means something, and does the fact that a grand jury handed down a manslaughter indictment change anything for the family that has to bury a working person and then figure out how to live without the paycheck, the presence, and the future that person carried. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases in Texas. This page is not a news summary. It is a full legal analysis of what happened on Highway 64 near Chapel Hill on July 8, 2025, what the grand jury’s manslaughter indictment means for the civil case the family has the right to bring, and what the family should know about the clock that is already running on their claim. We write this as the senior trial attorney would speak to one person across a kitchen table — with every truth delivered straight, every hard question answered, and nothing…

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Aug 14, 2026

FedEx Driver Killed in Smith County Crash: Wrongful Death & Survival Action Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to East Texas, the Criminal Indictment That Strengthens Your Civil Case, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner, the Employer on Duty, and Any Dram-Shop Defendant Behind the Fatal Collision, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the FedEx Telematics, Dashcam Footage, Defendant EDR Black-Box Data, and Toxicology Results Before the Overwrite Cycles Purge Them, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with No Cap on Non-Economic Damages 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

Smith County, Texas FedEx Driver Wrongful Death: What the Criminal Indictment Means for Your Family Someone in your family drove a FedEx truck for a living, and someone else’s choices took that life. Now a grand jury in Smith County has indicted the person responsible — and you are hearing from prosecutors, from FedEx, from insurance adjusters who sound sympathetic and are not. You are trying to bury someone while a system you have never been inside is already moving around you. This page is for you — not to sell you anything, but to tell you what is actually happening, what Texas law gives your family, and what is disappearing right now while you grieve. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful-death cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — and now sits on your side of the table. We are writing this page as the senior trial attorney who has built these cases from the ground up, because the things your family needs to know are not things the insurance company will tell you, and several of them are on a clock that has already started. Here is the first thing: the criminal indictment is the most powerful asset your family has. A grand jury in Smith County…

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Aug 14, 2026

FedEx Driver Killed on Highway 64 Near Chapel Hill: Wrongful Death Rights When a Wrong-Way Driver Faces Manslaughter — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Smith County, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and the UM/UIM Coverage That Can Turn a Minimum-Limits Case Into a Multi-Million-Dollar Recovery, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Preserve the FedEx Dashcam and Telematics Data Before the 30-90 Day Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Negligence Per Se From the Criminal Indictment, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

FedEx Driver Killed on Highway 64 Near Chapel Hill: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Wrongful Death If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on Highway 64 near Chapel Hill — a FedEx driver who was doing his job, stepping out of his truck on a summer afternoon when a vehicle came across the center line and hit him — we want you to know something first. The criminal justice system has already started answering for what happened. A Smith County grand jury indicted the at-fault driver for manslaughter. That matters for your family more than you may realize right now, because the same facts that convinced a grand jury to charge a crime are the facts that build a civil wrongful death case. The two cases run on separate tracks, but they share the same evidence, the same roadway, the same conduct — and the civil track is the one that provides for the family left behind. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and commercial-vehicle cases across Texas, and we built this page for the family, the coworker, the parent or spouse who is sitting at a kitchen table in Smith County at 2 a.m. trying to understand what happens next. This is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the kind of legal information that comes from 27 years of trying these cases, from the inside knowledge of how insurance companies value and defend claims,…

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Aug 14, 2026

Wrongful Death on Highway 64: FedEx Driver Killed in the Chapel Hill Area of Smith County, Texas When a Driver Crossed the Median Into Oncoming Traffic in a No-Passing Zone — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Families of Commercial Delivery Drivers Lost on Rural East Texas Highways, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Oversized Load Operator and Every Liable Party Behind the Traffic Hazard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the TxDOT Crash Report, the EDR Black-Box Data and the Oversized Load Permit Records Before They Disappear, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Comparative Fault Doctrine, Negligence Per Se From the Manslaughter Indictment, 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 FedEx Driver Was Killed on Highway 64 in Smith County — What Happened and What It Means for the Family If you are reading this because someone you love was killed while doing their job — stepping out of a delivery truck on a Texas highway, just trying to get a package to someone’s door — then you are in the worst hours of your life, and you are also in the hours that matter most for the case that will follow. We are writing this for you. Not for a general audience. For the spouse, the parent, the child, the sibling who is sitting at a kitchen table in Smith County right now, trying to understand what just happened and what comes next. On July 8, 2025, a 26-year-old FedEx delivery driver was fatally struck on State Highway 64 in the Chapel Hill area of Smith County, Texas. She had exited her delivery truck, which was parked in the median, and was crossing the roadway to make a delivery. A driver who had become impatient with traffic slowed by an oversized load vehicle and its escort attempted to pass multiple vehicles by driving through the median and into oncoming traffic — in a no-passing zone. His vehicle struck her and threw her a considerable distance. She was transported to a Tyler hospital and pronounced dead at 2:04 p.m. The Texas Department of Transportation crash report determined the crash was primarily caused by the at-fault driver’s decision to pass…

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Aug 14, 2026

J.B. Hunt Broker-vs-Carrier Liability in Fatal Arizona Head-On Truck Crash That Killed Two and Injured Three Children — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Interstate Freight Corridor, We Pursue the Logistics Companies That Hold Dual FMCSA Authority as Both Broker and Carrier to Dodge Vicarious Liability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD Telematics, Load Tender Records and Dispatch Communications Before the Overwrite, FMCSA Broker-vs-Carrier Distinction Under 49 CFR 390.5 and the MCS-90 Endorsement, Arizona’s Pure Comparative Negligence With No Damage Caps, 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

Arizona J.B. Hunt Truck Accident Lawsuit: When a Logistics Giant Says “We Were Just the Broker” You are reading this because someone you love was killed or badly hurt in a collision with a commercial truck on an Arizona highway, and now the company whose name was on that freight transaction — J.B. Hunt Transport Services — has told a federal judge that it is not responsible. They say they were just the broker. They say the truck, the driver, the route, the cargo — none of it was really theirs. They say the deaths of two people and the serious injuries to three children are someone else’s legal problem. We are here to tell you what that argument means, why it is not the end of the story, and what the fight actually looks like from the inside. We have spent decades in courtrooms — including federal court — on commercial trucking cases. We know the federal regulations that govern brokers and carriers because we have lived inside them. We know how the insurance industry prices a claim like yours because one of us — Lupe Peña — used to sit on the other side of the table, inside a national insurance-defense firm, helping adjusters decide how to value and deny claims exactly like yours. Now he uses that knowledge for people like you. And Ralph Manginello has been trying cases for 27+ years, including in federal court, and he does not lose interest when a corporation says the…

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Aug 14, 2026

FedEx Delivery Driver Killed on Highway 64 in Smith County, Texas: Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner and Every Insurance Policy Behind a No-Passing-Zone Collision That Took 26-Year-Old Hidekel Cornelio’s Life on a Rural Two-Lane Highway, 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 Wrongful-Death Cases, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data, Cell Phone Records and DPS Crash Reconstruction Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Gross-Negligence Standard for Punitive Damages When a Driver Chooses to Pass Illegally Into Oncoming Traffic, Workers’ Comp Death Benefits and Commercial UM/UIM Coverage for FedEx Employees Killed on the Job, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Smith County FedEx Driver Wrongful Death on Highway 64: What the Family Needs to Know If you are reading this because someone you love was killed while working as a delivery driver on a Texas highway, you already know that the hardest part is not the crash. It is everything that came after. The phone calls from the employer’s insurance people. The forms that arrived before the funeral. The criminal case moving on its own schedule while someone mentions a deadline you have never heard of. You are standing in the worst moment of your life, and the system is already in motion around you — a system designed to close your case fast and cheap, not to tell you what it is actually worth. Here is the first thing we want you to know: what happened on Highway 64 in Smith County on July 8, 2025, was not an accident. A driver made a conscious decision to pass in a designated no-passing zone on a two-lane rural highway, crossed into the oncoming lane, and struck a 26-year-old FedEx driver who was outside her delivery vehicle doing her job. That decision killed her. And the law in Texas gives her family rights that go far beyond what the workers’ compensation system will tell you about. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases in Texas, and this page is written for one person: the family member who is up at 2am trying to understand…

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Aug 14, 2026

FedEx Driver Killed in Wrong-Way Highway 64 Crash Near Chapel Hill: Attorney911 Pursues Wrongful Death Claims When a No-Passing-Zone Violation Turns Fatal on Rural East Texas Highways, 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 FedEx Dashcam Footage, EDR Data and Telematics Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Survival Action Rights, Negligence Per Se From the Manslaughter Indictment, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and the Commercial UM/UIM Coverage Behind the FedEx Vehicle, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What a Manslaughter Indictment Means for the Family of a FedEx Driver Killed on Highway 64 If you are reading this because someone you love was killed while working on a rural East Texas highway — a husband, a father, a son who put on a uniform every morning and drove a route that kept other people’s packages moving — you are in a moment that no one prepared you for. The criminal justice system has now done something: a Smith County grand jury has indicted the driver who caused this death. That matters. But a grand jury indictment is not compensation, it is not closure, and it is not the full measure of accountability that Texas law allows your family to pursue. The criminal case and the civil wrongful death case are two separate things, running on two separate clocks, answering to two separate systems. We are the firm that handles the second one — the one that actually pays your family for what was taken. Here is the first thing you need to hear, and we will say it plainly: the man who was killed did nothing wrong. He was doing his job. He was exiting his vehicle on a highway where the law says you do not pass, and someone came across the center line into the wrong lane and killed him. Any suggestion that being outside the truck made him partly responsible is a defense tactic, not a fact — and we will address it directly…

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Aug 14, 2026

Dallas Underride Crash Attorneys: Roof Sheared Off in Dual 18-Wheeler Collision on S.M. Wright Freeway — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue Both Carriers and the Contractor Shells Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Underride Cases, We Extract the ELD Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, We Inspect Both Trailers’ Underride Guards for 49 CFR 393.86 Compliance Before They Are Repaired, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Dallas Underride Crash: Your Family’s Rights After a Roof-Shearing Underride Collision with Two 18-Wheelers If you are reading this at two in the morning, you already know what happened. A passenger vehicle drove underneath one commercial tractor-trailer and then crashed beneath a second 18-wheeler near Linfield Road and the S.M. Wright Freeway corridor in Dallas. The roof was torn off the car. Officials have described the mechanism, and the mechanism — roof shearing consistent with underride — tells us everything about what happened to the person inside that vehicle. We are going to tell you everything we know about what this means legally, what the trucking companies are already doing, and what you need to do in the next 72 hours to protect your family. None of this is theoretical. This is the work we do. This is the fight. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take commercial-vehicle, catastrophic-injury, and wrongful-death cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — and now he sits on your side of the table. We are writing this page as the senior trial attorney you would want in the room if this were your family. Because it might be. What Happened on the S.M. Wright Freeway: The Underride Mechanism Explained An underride crash is not a…

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