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Jul 21, 2026

Midland dirt bike crash leaves 21-year-old dead – CBS7

Midland Dirt Bike Crash: Your Family’s Rights After a Fatal Stop-Sign Intersection Collision If you found this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it was yesterday. Maybe it was hours ago and you are sitting in a kitchen in Midland at two in the morning, scrolling through your phone, trying to understand how a 21-year-old can be alive on Raymond Street one minute and gone the next. You are reading this because the police report says he was going fast, and the dirt bike was not street-legal, and you can already hear the insurance adjuster’s voice forming those words into a story that blames him. We need you to hear something before anything else: a stop sign is not a shield. The person who pulled out in front of him had a legal duty that did not disappear because the oncoming vehicle was small, or fast, or unfamiliar to them. That duty is where your family’s case begins, and this page is where you learn what it means, what it is worth, and what is already disappearing while you read. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death claims and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, and we wrote this page for one person: the family member of someone killed in a stop-sign intersection crash in Midland who needs to know, right now, whether anyone can be held accountable. This is legal information, not legal advice. Contacting us is free and confidential. And we do not…

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Jul 21, 2026

Fatal Three-Vehicle Crash at the Highway 349/158 Overpass Near Midland, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Drivers and Any Commercial Carrier Behind the Collision, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Send Preservation Letters Within 72 Hours to Lock Down the EDR Black-Box Data From All Three Vehicles Before the Overwrite and Pull the DPS Crash Report While Skid Marks and Debris Fields Still Document the Scene, the Speed-Differential Physics of Overpass Merges Where Oilfield Trucks and Passenger Cars Collide, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Comparative-Fault Rule for Three-Vehicle Fault Allocation, 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 Highway 349/158 Overpass: Where Permian Basin Traffic Turns Deadly If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was killed at the Highway 349/158 overpass near Midland, you already know more about this road than any lawyer could teach you. You know the sound of the phone call. You know the drive to the hospital, or the drive to the scene, or the wait for a name. What you may not know yet is that the evidence of what happened is already disappearing — not in years, not in months, but in days. And the people who are about to call you, friendly and warm and concerned, are calling to make sure it disappears before anyone can use it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases across Texas, and we write this page because the family of the person who died at this overpass deserves to know, in plain language, what the law gives them, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what the insurance company is already doing to minimize what they will pay. This is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information a family needs in the first days after a fatal crash on a Permian Basin highway. The Highway 349/158 overpass sits in the Midland-Odessa metropolitan corridor — the epicenter of Permian Basin oil and gas operations. Highway 349 runs north-south, connecting Midland to the regional oilfields that stretch across the…

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Jul 21, 2026

Fatal Towing Rollover on I-10 Near Deming, New Mexico — Raymundo Cruz Herrera, Jose Luis Guerrero, and Abraham Calderon Killed When a Towed SUV Rolled and Ejected Them — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to New Mexico Highway Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Towing Driver, the Vehicle Owner, and the Towing-Equipment Manufacturer If a Tow Strap, Chain, or Hitch Failed, We Extract the EDR Data From Both Vehicles and Impound the Towing Equipment Before It Is Scrapped, New Mexico’s Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule Means Seat-Belt Non-Use Reduces Recovery but Never Bars It, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Uses the Belt Defense to Minimize Payouts, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Deming I-10 Towing Rollover: Your Rights After a Fatal Towed-Vehicle Crash in New Mexico Three men from the El Paso area set out on a Saturday night, east on Interstate 10 through the high desert of southwestern New Mexico. One SUV was towing another. Both left the highway for reasons the state police have not yet explained. The towed Nissan rolled over. Three men who were not wearing seat belts were ejected and died at the scene. The driver of the towed vehicle was critically hurt and flown to a hospital. Four people in the towing vehicle went by ambulance. Alcohol was not a factor. If you are reading this page, you may be sitting at a kitchen table in El Paso or Anthony, Texas, or somewhere in Luna County, New Mexico, at an hour when the house is quiet and the questions will not stop. Why did both vehicles leave the road? Was the towing setup safe to begin with? And the question the insurance adjuster is already counting on you to ask yourself: were the seat belts the reason your loved one died, and does that mean you have no case? We are the Manginello Law Firm — Attorney911. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in New Mexico, and we wrote this page so that, at two in the morning, you can find the truth about what New Mexico law actually says — not what the insurance company wants you to believe it says. The law…

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Jul 21, 2026

FM 1053 Head-On Collision & Wrongful Death in Crane County, Texas: Three Odessa Siblings — Jackie, Jaden & Nautica Perkins — Killed When Their Jeep Wrangler Caught Fire After a Rural Permian Basin Crash, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, the Employer Behind a Commercial Vehicle, and Corporate Defendants Like The TJX Companies Inc. and Their Insurers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Image the EDR Black-Box Data and Preserve the Jeep Wrangler Fuel System Before Salvage, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Law Gives Surviving Parents a Limited Filing Window Under Modified Comparative Negligence, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Teenagers, One Crash, and a Family That Needs Answers If you are reading this page, you already know what happened on Farm to Market Road 1053 south of Texas Highway 329 on the evening of November 20, 2024. You know that a 2012 Jeep Wrangler traveling north and a 2024 GMC Sierra traveling south collided head-on in Crane County. You know the Jeep became fully engulfed in flames. You know that three teenagers — an eighteen-year-old young man, his twin brother, and their sixteen-year-old sister — were pronounced dead at the scene. You know the driver of the GMC was airlifted to a hospital and later died. And you know that the Texas Department of Public Safety is still investigating and has not yet said which vehicle crossed the centerline. What you may not know is what happens next — what the law allows your family to do, how long you have to do it, and why the evidence that could answer every question about what happened to these children is disappearing right now, on a clock that does not wait for grief. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin corridor where this crash occurred. We are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Crane or Brownfield at two in the morning, searching for answers because the official report is not finished and the funeral…

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Jul 21, 2026

Permian Basin Toxic Emissions & Sour-Gas Flaring Attorneys: Ector County, Texas Residents Exposed to Sulfur Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide at Levels Exceeding EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Attorney911 Pursues Occidental Petroleum and the Basin Operators Behind 10.6 Million Pounds of Unauthorized SO2 Releases Across 500 Incidents, 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 Toxic Exposure Cases, We Move to Preserve the TCEQ Emission Event Reports, Flare Maintenance Logs and Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Data Before 3-to-7-Year Corporate Email Retention Cycles and Oilfield Personnel Turnover Erase Them, Texas Toxic Tort Law Demands Specific Causation Proof Through Dose-Response Analysis Under the State’s Expert-Evidence Standard, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Air Your Family Breathes in Ector County — and What the Law Says About It You live in Odessa, or outside the city limits in Ector County, and you have been breathing the air in the heart of the Permian Basin oil boom. Maybe your child’s asthma has gotten worse and you cannot figure out why. Maybe you wake up with a sore throat and a headache more mornings than not. Maybe you smell the rotten-egg odor that drifts off the well pads when the wind shifts, and you have wondered whether the flares you can see burning on the horizon at night are doing something to your family. A published environmental report used the same air-dispersion modeling that regulators use and found that approximately 35 percent of Ector County exceeded the federal health standard for sulfur dioxide between 2014 and 2017. The study identified Occidental Permian as the top emitter in the region, with 74 facilities releasing 10.6 million pounds of sulfur dioxide across 500 unauthorized incidents in a single year. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC, and this page is written for the one person reading it at 2 a.m. who is trying to understand whether the air pollution documented across the Permian Basin is connected to what is happening to their body or their family. We handle toxic tort cases across Texas, and everything that follows is the education, the governing law, the evidence clocks, and the honest evaluation of what a case…

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Jul 21, 2026

Permian Basin Sulfur Dioxide Toxic Exposure Attorneys — Attorney911 Pursues Occidental Petroleum and the Oil & Gas Operators Behind 5.3 Million Pounds of Illegal SO2 Flaring Emissions in Violation of Federal Clean Air Act Permits Across Odessa, Ector County, Texas Where Only One Air Monitor Covers 75,000 Square Miles, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the TCEQ Emission Event Reports, Flaring Logs and Gas Composition Data Before Retention Cycles Overwrite Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic Injury, Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling to Reconstruct SO2 Plume Trajectories to Your Home, Texas Negligence Per Se and Nuisance Claims Built on Documented Permit Violations, Children and Elderly Especially Susceptible to Respiratory Harm, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Sulfur Dioxide Exposure: Your Legal Rights When the Air Itself Is the Injury You live in Odessa, and there is something in the air your family has been breathing. Maybe you have felt it before you ever read about it — the cough that started and never left, the child whose inhaler refills kept getting closer together, the parent whose breathing seemed to get worse every year the pumpjacks multiplied across the horizon. You may have wondered whether the air itself was the reason. A third-party environmental analysis has now put numbers to what you suspected: in 2017 alone, oil and gas companies illegally discharged 5.3 million pounds of sulfur dioxide into the air of Ector County — every pound of it in violation of the federal pollution permits those companies hold. The analysis found that roughly 35 percent of Ector County experienced sulfur dioxide levels above the federal health standard. And the state agency charged with protecting that air has installed exactly one sulfur dioxide monitor for the entire 75,000-square-mile Permian Basin. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle toxic tort and environmental exposure cases in Texas. This page is not a sales pitch. It is a complete explanation of what happened to the air in your community, what the law says about it, what the companies responsible will try to do to avoid accountability, and what you can do — starting today — to protect your family. Everything here is free to read. The…

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Jul 21, 2026

Mass Shooting Wrongful Death Attorneys — When a Routine Traffic Stop Became a Firearms Rampage Across Midland and the I-20 Corridor Leaving a Police Officer and Civilians Dead, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Negligent Property Owners, Firearm Transferors and Employers When Foreseeable Risks Were Ignored, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, ATF Firearm-Trace Records and Employment Files Before the Overwrite and Retention Clocks Expire, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Under the Comparative-Fault 51% Bar, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Mass Shooting: Legal Rights of Victims and Families After the Odessa-Midland Shooting Spree The shooting that tore through Odessa and Midland on August 31, 2019, moved along the Interstate 20 corridor that connects these two West Texas oil-patch cities twenty miles apart. It started as a traffic stop and ended as a rampage that killed at least five people — including a police officer — and injured twenty-one more. The shooter is dead. The criminal investigation closed with his death. What did not close is the question every family affected by that day is still living with: who else bears responsibility for what happened, and is there still a way to hold them accountable? This page is about that question. It is about the civil case that exists alongside the criminal one — the case that asks whether a business failed to protect its patrons, whether a firearm seller handed a weapon to someone who should never have had it, whether an employer ignored warning signs that were visible long before the first shot was fired. It is about what Texas law allows a family to recover, how the deadline works, and why the evidence that could prove your case is disappearing on a clock that runs faster than the lawsuit itself. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take Texas wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases on contingency, which means we do not get paid unless we win your case. The first call is free,…

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Jul 21, 2026

Industrial Explosion & Ammonium Nitrate Detonation Attorneys — the West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast That Rocked the I-35 Corridor, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Facility Operators, Chemical Suppliers and Equipment Manufacturers Behind the Blast, the Physics of Ammonium Nitrate Decomposition and the Shock Wave That Struck Nearby Homes, a Nursing Home and a School, We Secure the OSHA Storage Records, EPA Risk-Management Filings and CSB Investigation Findings Before They Disappear, Texas Gross-Negligence and Wrongful-Death Doctrine for Exemplary Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Mass-Casualty Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion: Your Legal Rights After the April 17, 2013 Ammonium Nitrate Disaster The night of April 17, 2013, changed West, Texas forever. If you are reading this page, you already know that — you lived it. A fertilizer plant in your town stored tons of ammonium nitrate, and on that Wednesday night it detonated. Fifteen people died. Over 260 were injured. A nursing home, a school, homes, and the lives of families across McLennan County were torn open in a blast that shook the foundations of buildings along I-35 and was felt for miles. What you may not know yet — what the insurance company is counting on you not knowing — is that the facility operator reportedly carried only about $1 million in liability insurance. For a disaster that killed 15 and injured 260, that is a fraction of a fraction of what it will take to make your family whole. The good news, and the reason this page exists, is that the facility operator is almost certainly not the only party who can be held accountable. The real recovery in a case like this lives in the defendant stack — the chemical suppliers, the equipment manufacturers, and the entities that controlled the property — and finding them is the first thing we do. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle industrial explosion and refinery accident cases across Texas, and we built this page for one reason: to give you, in…

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Jul 21, 2026

Valero McKee Refinery Explosion & Burn-Injury Attorneys: 19 Injured in Sunray, Moore County, Texas Propane De-Asphalting Unit Blast, 3 Critical Burn Victims Transported 120 Miles to the Lubbock Burn Unit — Attorney911 Pursues the Refiner and the Contractors Behind the Fire, We Secure the OSHA Process Safety Management Records, Mechanical-Integrity Files and Chemical Safety Board Findings Before the PDA Unit Is Rebuilt and the Evidence Is Scrapped, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Non-Subscriber Law Strips the Employer’s Defenses When It Elects Not to Carry Workers’ Comp, Burn and Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered), the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Explosion at Sunray: What a Refinery Fire Really Means for the People Inside It If you are reading this from a hospital bed in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Dumas or Sunray where someone you love is not coming home the same person they were before, we are talking to you. The smoke plume from the McKee Refinery was visible from sixty miles away — people in Amarillo looked north and saw it rising. That is how large the release was. But the distance that matters most is not the sixty miles the smoke traveled. It is the one hundred and twenty miles between Sunray and the nearest burn unit in Lubbock, because that is the distance your loved one was carried while the burns on their body kept doing damage. And it is the distance between what the company will tell you happened and what the evidence will show actually happened. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle refinery accident cases and catastrophic industrial injury claims in Texas. This page is built around a real incident — the February 2007 explosion and fire at the Valero Energy Corp. McKee Refinery in Sunray, Moore County, Texas — because it teaches, in concrete and painful detail, exactly how a refinery explosion case works: what the law requires, what the evidence clock looks like, what the medicine of a refinery burn really is, and what the fight is worth. Everything here applies to any refinery…

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Jul 20, 2026

One Killed, Ten Injured in the Midland, Texas Loop 250 Mass Shooting — Ed Scott, 62, a Midland City Employee, Dead After a Fugitive Turned an Unsecured Abandoned Building Into a Fortified Firing Position on Passing Cars, Bystanders and Officers — Attorney911 Pursues the Negligent Property Owners and Corporate Entities Including Giti Tire Behind Vacant Commercial Structures, We Secure Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Erases It, 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 Premises Liability Cases, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Premises Liability Law Hold Owners Accountable for Foreseeable Third-Party Criminal Acts, the Texas Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund Offers Immediate Help, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland, Texas Shooting: Legal Rights After the Loop 250 Tragedy If you are reading this in the hours or days after the shooting near Loop 250 in Midland, you are probably in one of three places: a hospital room at Midland Memorial, a kitchen table where someone’s chair is now empty, or a phone screen at 2 a.m. trying to understand whether anything can be done when the man who pulled the trigger is already dead. We are going to tell you the truth about that, and the truth is more complicated than what you have heard on the news. The shooter’s death closed one door. It did not close all of them. What happened on that Friday morning in Midland was not an act of God, and it was not a random bolt of violence that no one could have prevented. A fugitive wanted for attempted capital murder of a police officer — a man law enforcement had been hunting for over thirty hours — opened fire on passing cars, bystanders, and officers near the Victorian Inn before barricading himself inside an abandoned veterinary clinic. He killed one person and injured ten others. Two of the injured were still in critical condition as of Saturday. The man was found dead inside the building from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But before he ended his own life, he used that building as a fortress — a fortified position from which to fire on the public on a busy commercial corridor in…

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