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Jul 16, 2026

13-Day-Old Baby and Teen Killed in Side-Impact Crash on US 385 Near SH 158 in Ector County, Texas — Wrongful Death & Motor Vehicle Accident Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate Under Texas Negligent-Entrustment Law and General Motors on Crashworthiness and Restraint-System Claims If FMVSS Inspection Reveals Failure, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data From Both the Malibu and the Ram Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine With No Statutory Damages Cap in Motor-Vehicle Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Crash on US 385: A 13-Day-Old Baby and a Teenager Are Dead — What the Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and What Families Must Do Now If you found this page, you are likely sitting in one of two places: a waiting room at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, or a kitchen table in Mississippi where the phone call came from Texas and the world stopped. A thirteen-day-old baby is gone. A seventeen-year-old is gone. Four other people are hurt. And the thing that will determine whether anyone is held accountable — the physical evidence, the vehicles, the data inside them — is disappearing on a clock that started the moment the crash happened. Not the two-year statute of limitations. Days. Sometimes hours. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas. We are not your lawyers on this crash, and nothing on this page is legal advice for your specific situation. What this page is, instead, is everything we know about how a case like this is actually built — the law, the evidence, the insurance, the medicine, the timeline, and the plays the other side is already running — so that whatever you decide to do next, you do it with your eyes open. The call is free. The number is 1-888-ATTY-911. We answer it at 2 a.m. What Happened on US Highway 385 Near the SH 158 Service Road On a Thursday afternoon at…

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Jul 16, 2026

Tire Blowout on a Pitch-Dark Permian Basin Highway: Three Lubbock Residents, Daniel Lindsey, Chelsea Clark and Marcos Campos, Killed When Their Tahoe Struck a Kenworth Tractor-Trailer That Could Not Clear the Roadway on SH 349 in Martin County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Operating Carrier and PACCAR Inc Behind the 2016 Kenworth, We Image the ECM Black-Box Data and Pull the ELD Telematics, Tire Evidence and Maintenance Records Before the Data Overwrites and the Carrier Disposes of the Blowout Tire, FMCSA Emergency Warning Requirements Under 49 CFR 390-399 and Whether Reflective Triangles Placed at 10, 100 and 200 Feet Give a Driver Enough Time at Highway Speed in Total Darkness, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Crashes, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Where the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar and the Seatbelt Finding Become the Central Liability Fight, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

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

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Jul 16, 2026

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

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

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Jul 16, 2026

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

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

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Jul 16, 2026

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

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

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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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