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Jul 16, 2026

DWI Wrongful Death on Odessa’s E 52nd Street: Bryan Contreras Dead at the Scene, Alexis Luna Dead at Medical Center Hospital After an Intoxicated Driver’s Tahoe Left the Roadway at 2:47 a.m. — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and the Bar That Overserved Under Texas Dram Shop Law, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the Blood-Alcohol Toxicology, the Police Crash Affidavit and the Event Data Recorder Before Evidence Degrades, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims With Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Civil Filing Deadline Does Not Wait for Criminal Sentencing — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa DWI Crash Killed Two 19-Year-Old Passengers — What the Probation Sentence Means for the Families’ Civil Rights If you found this page because someone you love was killed by a drunk driver in Odessa, and you just watched the criminal court hand down a sentence of probation, you are probably sitting with a question that no news article will answer for you: Is that really all? We are not going to pretend it feels like enough. Ten years of community supervision, a $10,000 fine per count, and 120 days in the Ector County jail for killing two nineteen-year-old people is the kind of outcome that makes families feel like the justice system looked at their loss and decided it was manageable. We understand that feeling. We have sat with families in exactly this position, and we can tell you two things at once: the criminal sentence is one system, and the civil case is a completely separate one. The criminal court decides what the state does to the person who drove drunk. The civil court decides what the person who drove drunk — and anyone else who helped create the danger — owes the families whose lives were destroyed. That second system is still open. But it runs on a clock the criminal court does not control, and for this crash, that clock may have already run out. That is why the most important thing on this page is not the anger you feel — it is the deadline…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Freightliner and Belly-Dump Semi-Truck Collision on State Highway 349 in Midland County, Texas — Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice for Permian Basin Commercial-Truck Wrongful-Death Claims, We Pursue the Oilfield Carriers and Hauling Companies Behind the Freightliner, an 80,000-Pound Rig Against a Compact Car Where Stopping Distance and Closing Speed Decide Liability, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data, the ELD Hours-of-Service Logs the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations Require, and the Dashcam Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases All Three, Texas Comparative Fault and the 51% Bar Mean the Commercial Driver’s Speed and Evasive-Action Capability Are the Real Battleground Not Just the Stop-Sign Finding, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Carrier’s Claims Team Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases Including a $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Stop Sign and an 80,000-Pound Truck Meet on a Permian Basin Highway — Your Family’s Legal Reality After the SH 349 Fatal Crash You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from the road on December 1, 2024. The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued a press release. It says the passenger vehicle disregarded a stop sign at the intersection of State Highway 349 and Farm-to-Market Road 1213, roughly five miles south of Interstate 20 in rural Midland County. A northbound Freightliner semi-truck towing a belly-dump trailer struck that vehicle. The driver of the passenger vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. The commercial driver was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital with what were described as minor injuries. The Midland Fire Department responded. The crash remains under investigation. That is what the press release says. It is not the whole story, and it is not the final word on who bears responsibility for what happened that night. We are writing this page for the family — the spouse, the children, the parents — who are sitting at a kitchen table in the Permian Basin or in Fort Bend or wherever grief has landed, reading a preliminary finding that feels like a door closing before anyone has even looked at the evidence. That door is not closed. What DPS wrote in the first hours after a crash is a starting point, not a conclusion. A commercial truck fatality on a Permian Basin highway requires…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Car Crash & Wrongful Death Attorneys Serving Midland and the Permian Basin, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Insurer Behind Them on Highways Where Oilfield Traffic and High-Speed Rural Stretches Drive Elevated Fatality Rates, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Cases, We Move to Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data, Cell Phone Records and Police Crash Report Before the Evidence Window Closes, Texas Wrongful Death Law Gives Surviving Parents the Right to Mental Anguish and Loss-of-Companionship 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

Midland Wrongful Death After a Fatal Car Crash: Your Rights, the Evidence Clock, and the Fight for Accountability Under Texas Law You are reading this because someone you love is not coming home. Maybe it was on I-20 between Midland and Odessa, or on US-285 cutting south through the oilfield, or on SH-191 where the speed limit is high and the headlights you trusted turned out to be the last thing anyone ever saw. A mother in this region recently turned the worst day of her life into a memorial project — a tribute to the daughter she lost in a crash on a Permian Basin road. The grief that drove her to create something enduring in her child’s name is the same grief the law calls “loss of companionship and society.” It is not just a human story. Under Texas law, it is compensable. It is evidence. It is the heart of a wrongful death claim. We are writing this page for the family at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. — the one holding a folder of funeral bills, a phone that will not stop buzzing with messages from people who mean well but do not know what to say, and the quiet, growing suspicion that the insurance company representative who called yesterday was a little too friendly, a little too fast, and a little too interested in getting a statement on the record. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death claims…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Head-On Collision on State Highway 158 in Ector County, Texas — Belinda Ariel Torrez, 20, of Midland Killed When Her Hyundai Elantra Crossed the Center Line Into an Oncoming Ford F-250 at Highway Speed on a Rural Permian Basin Corridor Where Oilfield Traffic and Early-Morning Reduced Visibility Make Center-Line Crossovers Disproportionately Deadly, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Texas Rural Highway Crash Litigation, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Auto Liability Insurer Under Texas Negligence Per Se, Investigate Automaker Liability Including Ford Motor Company When EDR Data Reveals Steering or Stability-System Failure, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Insurers Value and Deny Head-On Collision Claims, We Pull the EDR Data, Cell Records and DPS CR-3 Before the 90-Day Purge and the Salvage Lot Scraps the Vehicles, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death and Motor Vehicle Accident Cases, Texas Comparative-Fault With Its 50% Bar and the Stowers Settlement Duty — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County SH 158 Fatal Head-On Crash: Your Legal Rights After a Center-Line Crossing Collision on a Rural Texas Highway You are reading this because someone you love was on State Highway 158 at six in the morning on a Sunday in June, and now everything is different. Maybe you are the driver who was heading east in the F-250, who walked away from a head-on collision and was told your injuries were “minor” — and you are starting to wonder why your neck will not stop hurting, why you cannot remember the drive home from the hospital, why the insurance adjuster has already called twice. Maybe you are the family of the twenty-year-old woman from Midland who did not come home — and you have read the preliminary report that says her vehicle crossed the center line, and you cannot square that with the person you know, and you need someone to tell you whether that report is the last word or the first. It is the first. Not the last. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle car accident cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin corridors that connect Midland and Odessa to the oilfields west of town. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in Texas 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 — before he came to our side…

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Jul 16, 2026

Midland Shooting & Aggravated-Assault Battery Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the West Loop 250 Corridor, We Pursue the Shooters, the Organized-Club Defendants and the Commercial Property Owners Behind Foreseeable Gun Violence, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage and Prior-Incident Reports Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Negligent-Security Cases, Ballistic Wound ($50M+ Recovered by the Firm) Catastrophic-Injury Representation, Texas Comparative-Fault and Exemplary-Damages Doctrine in Intentional-Tort Shootings, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Shooting on West Loop 250 — Legal Rights and Compensation After a Violent Assault in the Permian Basin You are reading this because someone you care about was shot. Maybe it was on April 25, 2026, near West Loop 250 in Midland, or maybe it was a different day on a different stretch of the same kind of road — and the person who pulled the trigger is either in custody or still out there. Either way, you are sitting with a hospital discharge paper in one hand and a police report number in the other, and nobody has explained what happens next in language that makes sense. We are going to do that now. What the public reporting tells us is this: on April 25, 2026, a member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club was shot near West Loop 250 in Midland. The Texas Anti-Gang Center – Permian Basin, working with Midland police, identified the suspect as Gilbert Roman Corrales, believed to be a member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. On May 2, 2026, TAG members and the Odessa Police Department located Corrales in the area of Pearl Street in Odessa — about twenty miles southwest of Midland — arrested him on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and booked him into the Ector County Detention Center. The victim survived. Later that same day, authorities arrested five Mongols members for a retaliatory stabbing of a Bandido motorcyclist in Midland County, confirming what investigators already knew: this…

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Jul 16, 2026

Alan Kevin Ferreyro, 23, Fatally Struck by an 18-Wheeler on I-20 Near Odessa, Ector County: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial Truck Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Motor Carriers Behind 80,000-Pound Rigs Hauling on the Oilfield Logistics Corridor Where Nighttime Visibility Is a Documented Hazard, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite Cycle Purges It, FMCSA Regulations Under 49 CFR and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar the Defense Will Weaponize Against a Pedestrian in Dark Clothing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Matters — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal 18-Wheeler Pedestrian Accident on I-20 Near Odessa, Texas: What Families Need to Know If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on Interstate 20 near Odessa — struck by a commercial truck at night — you are in the worst hours of your life, and the machinery that will try to minimize your loss is already moving. We want you to know three things before anything else. First, the fact that an 18-wheeler was involved changes everything about your case, because commercial drivers and their carriers are held to a federal safety standard that ordinary drivers never face. Second, the fact that your loved one was in the roadway wearing dark clothing does not end your case — it is a comparative factor the defense will exploit, and we have answers for it. Third, the evidence that decides whether this was an accident or a violation — the truck’s black box, the driver’s hours-of-service logs, his cell phone records, his post-crash toxicology — is on a clock, and that clock is not kind to families who wait. This page is for anyone whose family has been torn open by a commercial truck on the I-20 corridor through the Permian Basin. It is written by the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and it is written the way we would talk to you across a kitchen table in Odessa, Midland, or Laredo at two in the morning: honest about the challenges, specific…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash at SH 349 and FM 1213 in Midland County: Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier Behind the 80,000-Pound Rig That Struck and Killed Manuel De Jesus Sanchez Velasco on a Dark Permian Basin Intersection, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and ELD Hours-of-Service Logs Before the Overwrite, Mandatory Post-Crash Testing Under 49 CFR 382.303, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, Texas Modified Comparative Negligence and the 51% Bar — Truck Speed and Stopping Distance Can Establish Carrier Fault Even When a Stop Sign Was Run, 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

The Crash on SH 349 That Took a Life — and Why the Full Story Has Not Been Told Yet If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on State Highway 349 on the night of December 1, 2024, we want you to hear something first: the fact that the initial report says a stop sign was run does not mean the investigation is over, and it does not mean no one else bears responsibility for what happened. A commercial semi-truck traveling through a dark rural intersection in the Permian Basin at night carries duties that go far beyond the right of way — and those duties are investigated with evidence most families never learn exists until it is gone. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial truck accident cases across Texas, including the oilfield corridors of the Permian Basin where SH 349 carries truck traffic that dwarfs what those rural roads were built to handle. This page is not a news recap. It is the legal and forensic analysis we would give a family sitting across from us — what happened, what the law allows, what the truck’s black box and cameras may still prove, and what the deadlines are that nobody will tell you about until it is too late. What follows is legal information, not legal advice. Every case turns on its own facts. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Peterbilt Semi-Truck Collision Claims the Life of Jamie Lynn Flores, 38, at FM 866 and University Boulevard in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Wrongful Death & Commercial Truck Accident Attorneys Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Freight Corridors — We Pursue the Motor Carriers Behind the 2025 Peterbilt and the Contractor Shells They Operate Through, We Extract the ECM Black-Box Data, ELD Hours-of-Service Logs and Post-Accident Drug-Test Results Before the Overwrite Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Texas Comparative Negligence and the 51% Bar: Even When the Preliminary Report Cites Failure to Yield, the FMCSA Heightened Duty of Commercial Drivers Approaching Known Intersections Can Shift the Fault Apportionment — 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

The Night of November 19 — What Happened at FM 866 and University Boulevard If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home on November 19, 2025. You may have gotten the call from Medical Center Hospital, or from a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper whose voice you will never forget. You may have already read the preliminary DPS report that says the word “failed to yield” — and you may be wondering whether that single phrase means no one is accountable for the person who is gone. We are going to tell you something that matters right now, before anything else: that preliminary finding is a starting point, not a verdict. And the evidence that could tell a different story — the commercial truck’s onboard computer, its driver’s logs, its cameras, its braking data — is on a clock. That clock is running right now, and the records the law forces the trucking company to keep are the same records the law permits it to destroy. A 38-year-old woman was killed at the intersection of FM 866 and West University Boulevard in Ector County. She was wearing her seatbelt. She was taken to Medical Center Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The commercial truck driver — a 61-year-old man operating a 2025 Peterbilt with a trailer — was also wearing his seatbelt and was not injured. The DPS investigation preliminarily attributed the crash to the passenger vehicle’s failure to yield at the stop-sign-controlled intersection. That…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Head-On Dump Truck Collision Near Midland, Texas: Five Killed Including Three Young Children When a Volkswagen Beetle Met a Loaded Dump Truck With Towed Trailer on an Undivided Oilfield Corridor — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial-Truck Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Dump Truck Operators and Carriers Behind These Collisions Under the Federal Commercial-Vehicle Regime of 49 CFR 390-399, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Fatality Crashes, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Preserve the DPS Crash Scene Reconstruction Before It Is Lost, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine for a Trapped Driver’s Conscious Pain and Suffering After Impact, Every Victim Was Seatbelted — the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recoveries — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fiery Head-On Collision Near Midland: What Five Deaths on a Permian Basin Highway Mean for Families Who Lost Everything You are reading this because someone you love was killed on a two-lane highway in West Texas, and the silence from the insurance company is already louder than the crash itself. We know that silence. We know what fills it — the adjuster who has not called back, the tow yard that wants to charge you storage on a vehicle that is evidence, the DPS report that is not ready yet, and the funeral you had to plan before anyone told you what happened on that road. We are writing this page because the decisions made in the first days after a commercial truck kills a family member are the decisions that decide whether the truth survives. On a Sunday afternoon in early February 2011, a Volkswagen Beetle collided head-on with a dump truck approximately five miles north of Midland, Texas. The crash was catastrophic. All four people in the subcompact car — a grandmother and her three grandchildren, ages eight, three, and two — were killed on impact. The dump truck driver, fifty-six years old, survived the initial collision. He was alert. He was speaking with his wife. Then the fire took him, trapped in a cab he could not escape. Five people died on that stretch of road. Every one of them was wearing a seatbelt. That last fact — the seatbelts — is where the fight for these…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Head-On Collision on SH 158 in Ector County, Texas Claims the Life of Belinda Ariel Torrez, 20 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Highway Wrongful-Death Cases in the Permian Basin, Where Combined Closing Speeds and No Median Separation Turn a Centerline Crossover Into a Fatality, We Secure EDR Data From the Elantra and the F-250 Before the Salvage Yard Destroys It, DPS Preliminary Findings Are Not Final and Independent Reconstruction Often Reveals What the First Report Misses, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Under the Comparative-Fault Rule That Determines What a 20-Year-Old’s Full Life Horizon Is Worth, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Fatal Head-On Crash on SH 158: What Families Need to Know Right Now If you found this page, someone you love was probably on State Highway 158 near West Chinaberry Avenue on the morning of June 7. Maybe you got the call at dawn. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen in Midland or Odessa right now, staring at a phone that won’t stop ringing with people who say they are sorry and with one person from an insurance company who sounds very friendly and is not. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happens next — the law, the evidence, the clock that is already running on proof that can disappear, and the truth about what a case like this is worth. None of it is guesswork. All of it is what we do. Here is the first thing to understand, and it matters more than anything else on this page: the Texas Department of Public Safety has called its investigation preliminary. That word — preliminary — is not a formality. It means the official findings can change, and in our experience, they often do. A preliminary report is built in the first hours after a crash, sometimes before the vehicles have been fully inspected, before the event data recorders have been downloaded, before the autopsy is complete, before the cell phone records have been subpoenaed, and before anyone has studied whether the road itself contributed to what happened. The preliminary report is…

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