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Jul 16, 2026

Retired Dow High Teacher William Pearsey, 85, Killed in Construction-Zone Semi-Truck Collision at East Buttles and State in Midland, Michigan — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Interstate Trucking and Work-Zone Negligence Claims, We Pursue the Interstate Carriers Behind the MCS-90 Financial-Responsibility Minimum and the Construction Contractors Who Failed MUTCD Traffic-Control Standards, We Extract ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Secure Work-Zone Plans and Fallen-Tree Evidence Before the Site Changes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Crashes, Michigan’s Wrongful-Death Act and 51% Comparative-Fault Rule With No Non-Economic Damage Caps in Auto and Truck Wrongful-Death 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

What Happened at East Buttles and State Streets — and Why the Construction Zone Changes Everything If you found this page, you are likely sitting with a grief that has not yet found its shape. Maybe you are the daughter who told the world her father was the best there ever was. Maybe you are a friend who stood among the twenty-five strangers who ran toward the smoke on a Saturday afternoon in downtown Midland. Maybe you are the family of the woman who survived — pulled from the red SUV with the Jaws of Life while a Fourth of July crowd did what Midland does: helped. We are Attorney911. We are writing to you — not at you — because what happened at the intersection of East Buttles and State streets is not a simple truck-versus-car collision, and the difference between what it looks like and what it actually is could determine whether the people responsible are ever held to account. A retired teacher died. His passenger was hospitalized. A tree fell. A semi-truck collided with multiple vehicles. Construction barricades lined the road. And the investigation is still in its earliest hours. What we do in those earliest hours…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way Head-On Collision on SH 302 Near FM 181 in Ector County, Texas Kills Sebastian Trevino, 25, and Juan Guerrero, 26 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death Claims, We Pursue the Wrong-Way Driver, the Vehicle Owner for Negligent Entrustment, and Any Alcohol Provider Under the Texas Dram Shop Act, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Cases, We Image the EDR Black-Box Data From the Ford F-150 and Hyundai Elantra Before the Vehicles Are Salvaged, We Trace the 4:45 A.M. Wrong-Way Entry Through Toxicology, Cell-Phone Records and Oilfield Surveillance Footage Before It Overwrites, the Mass Disparity Between a Full-Size Pickup and a Compact Sedan That Made the Elantra’s Passengers Absorb Disproportionate Impact Force, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Gross-Negligence Exemplary Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Wrong-Way Crash on SH 302: Two Young Lives Lost in the Permian Basin Darkness If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Hyundai Elantra on State Highway 302 in the minutes before dawn on December 7, 2025, we want you to know three things before anything else. First, what happened to Sebastian Trevino and Juan Guerrero was not an accident in the sense that most people use that word — a wrong-way driver traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of a rural state highway at 4:45 in the morning is a decision someone made, and the law treats it that way. Second, evidence that will decide this case is disappearing right now — skid marks are fading, surveillance footage is recording over itself, and the vehicles themselves may be sitting in a tow yard where they can be salvaged or crushed within weeks. Third, the DPS investigation that is underway is not your investigation — it answers a criminal question, not the civil question of what your family is owed, and the two are not the same thing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Texas…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Two Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Freight Train Struck a Tractor-Trailer at a Rural Grade Crossing and Derailed Into the Chamber of Commerce Building, Three Injured, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Railroad Under FELA Where Any Negligence However Slight Triggers Liability and the Trucking Company Behind the Crossing Violation, We Secure the Locomotive Event Recorder, Grade-Crossing Signal Logs and Truck ELD Data Before the Eight-Day Overwrite Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful-Death and Comparative-Fault Doctrine Governs Third-Party Injury and Building-Damage Claims, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Union Pacific Workers Killed, Three Injured — Your Legal Rights Under FELA and Texas Law If you are reading this because someone you love went to work for Union Pacific on December 18, 2024, and did not come home, we need you to understand something before anything else: the law that protects your family is not the same law that protects everyone else. It is stronger. It is older. And it was written precisely for this moment — for the families of railroad workers killed because someone else’s negligence, even partly, sent a train off its tracks in a small West Texas town. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas, and we are writing this page for the families of the two Union Pacific employees killed in the Pecos derailment, for the three people injured inside the Chamber of Commerce building when the train came through it, and for anyone in Reeves County searching for answers about who is responsible and what can be done. This is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the kind of legal information most families never…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on SH-302 in Odessa, Texas — Kennedy Kimberly Kay, 49, of San Angelo Killed When a Left-Turning 2004 Peterbilt Tractor-Trailer Failed to Yield at Yukon Road Per DPS Preliminary Findings: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Trucking Corridors, We Pursue the Carrier and Operator Behind the Rig, Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and ELD Logs Before the 8-Day Device Overwrite, Demand the Post-Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing That Federal Regulations Require When a Fatality Occurs, Investigate Maintenance and Braking on a 20-Year-Old Tractor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Trucking Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death Act With Modified Comparative Fault and No Statutory Damage Caps — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on SH-302 in Odessa, Texas: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Commercial Trucking Wrongful Death If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from the drive on SH-302. Maybe you got the call from a state trooper, or from a family member who heard it on the scanner, or from a hospital that could only confirm the worst. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table in San Angelo, 90 miles from where it happened, trying to understand how a Thursday evening drive turned into a death certificate. You are in the hardest hours a family goes through, and the last thing you should have to think about is evidence and insurance and legal deadlines — and yet those are the very things that decide whether the people responsible for this are ever held to account. Here is the first thing that matters: the Texas Department of Public Safety has already said, in its preliminary investigation, what happened on the night of May 28. A 2004 Peterbilt 379 semi-truck was heading west on SH-302, toward the intersection with Yukon Road. It turned left. It did not yield. And a 2024 Kia Sportage driving…

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Jul 16, 2026

Commercial Vehicle Accident & Wrongful Death: Pecos City Train Derailment Kills One, Injures Four When a Tractor-Trailer Stalled on the Tracks at Oak Street and Dot Stafford Street and the Train Derailed Into the Chamber of Commerce Building — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Highway 285 Oilfield-Trucking Corridor in Reeves County Where Grade Crossings Frequently Lack Modern Warning Systems, We Pursue the Trucking Companies and the Railroads Behind Grade-Crossing Collisions, We Pull the Locomotive Forward-Facing Camera and the Truck ECM Black-Box Data Before the Footage Overwrites on a 7-to-30-Day Cycle, FMCSA Grade-Crossing Rules Under 49 CFR and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider 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 Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine With No Cap on Non-Economic Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Pecos City Train Derailment: One Dead, Four Injured After a Stalled Truck on Highway 285 Tracks Sent a Train Into a Building If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you are probably the wife, the husband, the child, or the parent of someone who was killed or hurt when that train derailed in Pecos. Or you were in the Chamber of Commerce building when the train hit it. Or you were on the train. Whoever you are, you did not expect to be here tonight, and the fact that you are searching for answers at this hour tells us everything about where you are. We are going to give you what we would want if we were sitting where you are sitting — not a sales pitch, not a brochure, but the truth about what happened, what the law allows, what the evidence looks like, and what the next 72 hours demand from anyone who wants to hold the right companies accountable. Here is the first thing to understand: a commercial truck should never be stalled on active railroad tracks. A train should never derail into a public building. One or more companies failed in their duties, and…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal 18-Wheeler vs. School Bus Collision on I-20 in Howard County, Texas: Elizabeth Pope, 52, Killed and Seven Injured Including Six High School Cheerleaders When an 80,000-Pound Commercial Truck Slammed Into an Iraan-Sheffield ISD Bus at Night — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pursue the Trucking Carrier Behind the Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ECM Black-Box Data and 2016 Paper Logs Before the Overwrite — Supporting Documents on a 6-Month Retention Clock Under FMCSA Rules, Hours-of-Service and Post-Crash Drug Testing Under 49 CFR, Texas Wrongful-Death and Comparative-Fault Doctrine with Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, 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

When an 18-Wheeler Hits a School Bus on I-20 in Howard County, Texas — What the Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and What Your Family Needs to Do If you are reading this because someone you love was on that bus — or because you are living through something similar right now — you are probably sitting in a hospital waiting room or at a kitchen table that has become covered in papers you never wanted to see. The phone keeps ringing. Some of the calls are from people who sound friendly and are not. You may not know yet who was driving that truck, what company owns it, or why it was on your road at that hour. You do know that a woman who worked with children is dead, that teenagers who should be safe are in intensive care, and that nothing about this feels like an accident. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happens next — not as a sales pitch, but as the legal reality of a commercial truck versus a school bus on a West Texas freight corridor. We handle 18-wheeler collision cases and wrongful death claims across Texas,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Train-Truck Grade-Crossing Collision & Railroad Worker Wrongful Death in Pecos, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, Where the Oilfield Truck Surge Meets a Historic Union Pacific Main Line and Downtown Crossings Built for Lighter Traffic, a Freight Train Needs Thousands of Feet to Stop and the Mass Ratio Left No Escape for the Engineer and Conductor, We Pursue the Motor Carrier Behind the Tractor-Trailer That Failed to Clear the Tracks Under FMCSA Grade-Crossing Rules and Hold the Self-Insured Railroad Under FELA, the Federal Statute That Protects Railroad Families When the Crew Doesn’t Come Home, We Extract the Locomotive Event Recorder, the Truck ELD and Telematics, the Crossing Signal Logs and the Driver’s Phone Records Before the 8-Day Overwrite and the CCTV Cycle, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Self-Insured Claims Machine Values and Denies FELA Deaths, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine With Its Comparative-Fault Rule and FELA’s Relaxed Causation Requiring Only That Railroad Negligence Played Any Part, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Pecos Train Derailment: What Happened on December 18, 2024, and What It Means for the Families If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on the railroad on December 18 and did not come home, the first thing you need to know is this: a federal law was written more than a century ago specifically for this moment. It is called the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, and it exists because Congress understood that railroad work is dangerous, that the railroad holds the power, and that the families of killed crew members deserve more than a workers’ compensation check and a closed door. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, including the railroad-worker and commercial-trucking cases that most firms do not know how to build. 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 sits on your side of the table, in English or in Spanish. We do not get paid unless…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Peterbilt Tire Blowout on U.S. 385 in Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Pursue the Carrier and PACCAR Inc Behind the Peterbilt Rig That Crossed the Cable Barrier Into Oncoming Traffic, Killing Johnny Saenz — We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Secure the Tire Remnants for Forensic Failure-Mode Analysis Before the Carrier Releases the Vehicle, FMCSA Tire-Inspection and Pre-Trip Requirements Under 49 CFR, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Crashes, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act, Survival Statute and Stowers Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County, U.S. 385: A Peterbilt’s Tire Blowout Killed a Passenger — Here Is What the Family Needs to Know If you are reading this, someone you love is gone. On a Friday evening in August, a commercial semi-truck blew a tire on U.S. 385, crossed through the cable barrier, and drove into oncoming traffic. A 33-year-old man from Andrews — a passenger in a Chevy Silverado, a person who was doing nothing wrong — was taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa and did not survive. Two other people in that truck were hurt. The driver of the semi walked away with minor injuries. You are probably sitting at a kitchen table at an hour when no one should be awake, looking at a phone, trying to understand what just happened and what comes next. We are going to tell you. Not in legal language — in plain truth. Because the truth is that what happened on U.S. 385 was not an accident in the sense of something no one could have prevented. Commercial trucks are subject to federal tire-maintenance regulations for exactly one reason: tire failures at highway speeds are a foreseeable consequence of inadequate inspection and maintenance.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Lay’s-Branded Semi-Truck and Train Accident at a Midland County Rural Grade Crossing Where Passive Crossbuck Signage May Be the Only Warning: Commercial Truck-Train Accident Attorneys — Attorney911 With Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice in the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Carrier Behind the Branded Fleet and the Railroad Operator, FMCSA Grade-Crossing Rules Under 49 CFR 392.10 and 392.12 Require Every Commercial Driver to Slow and Check for Trains, We Preserve the Truck’s EDR Black-Box Data and the Train’s Event Recorder Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Delayed-Onset Spinal and Concussion Injuries Can Surface Days After a Train Impact Even When You Walk Away Feeling Fine, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases, Texas Comparative-Fault Doctrine Governs Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland County Lay’s Semi-Truck Train Accident: What Happened on Highway 80 On the morning of May 8, a Lay’s-branded semi-truck was involved in an incident with a train at the intersection of County Road 1250 and Highway 80 in Midland County, Texas. Midland Fire Department crews arrived to find the truck stopped near the railroad tracks, the driver already out of the vehicle. Officials confirmed no injuries. The incident occurred at a rural grade crossing in the heart of the Permian Basin — the oilfield corridor of West Texas where heavy commercial traffic and active freight rail lines cross paths daily on roads built for a fraction of the load they now carry. If you are reading this because you were behind the wheel of that truck, or because someone you love was in a similar collision at a rural West Texas crossing, here is the first thing you need to hear: walking away from a truck-train collision without visible injury does not mean you are uninjured. It means the adrenaline has not worn off yet. And it means the evidence that would prove what actually happened — why the truck was on those tracks, whether the crossing was safe,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Commercial Trailer Rollover on I-20 Eastbound in Ector County, Texas, Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carriers and Oilfield-Hauling Operators Behind Permian Basin Truck Crashes Where Cargo Shifts and High Winds Turn a Straight Interstate Into a Rollover Zone, We Extract the ELD Data and ECM Black-Box Records Before the 8-Day Overwrite, Cargo-Securement and Hours-of-Service Violations Under 49 CFR 390-399, Texas Modified Comparative-Fault Rule and No Damages Cap in Commercial-Vehicle Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Saw the Alert — I-20 Eastbound Shut Down in Ector County You saw the notification flash across your phone or heard it on the radio — both eastbound lanes of I-20 closed in Ector County between mile markers 121 and 122. A commercial trailer rolled over. TxDOT posted the advisory. Traffic stacked up. And if you were on that stretch of highway when it happened, or someone you love was, the question building in your mind right now is not about the traffic. It is about what this means — for your body, for your family, for the weeks and months ahead. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial trucking accident cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin corridor that runs right through Ector County. We are writing this page for one reason: so that by the time you finish reading it, you know more about what happened on I-20 today than the insurance adjuster who is already being assigned to this file wants you to know. Everything that follows is legal information, not legal advice. But every word of it is written by a trial team that has spent decades inside these cases —…

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