Ector County Personal Injury

Wrong-Way Driver Kills Emerald Noemi Carta, 20, in Head-On Collision on U.S. 385 in Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Estate, Its Auto Insurers and UM/UIM Coverage, and When Vehicle-Safety-System or Crashworthiness Failures Compound the Harm We Hold Automakers Including Ford Motor Company Accountable, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Collision Claims, We Move to Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data From Both Vehicles Before They Are Salvaged and the Toxicology and TABC Records Before They Disappear, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims Including the Pre-Impact Terror of Oncoming Headlights at 11:30 P.M. on a Dark Rural Highway, Dram-Shop Liability When an Overserving Establishment Fueled the Wrong-Way Driver, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Wrong-Way Driver Kills Someone You Love on a West Texas Highway If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because a wrong-way driver took someone you love on U.S. 385, we want you to hear one thing first, clearly, before anything else: your son, your brother, your husband did nothing wrong. He was driving south in the southbound lanes, exactly where he was supposed to be, on a Tuesday night near mile marker 361 in Ector County. A vehicle came at him from the wrong direction — traveling north in the southbound lanes — and the collision killed them both. The Texas Department of Public Safety is still investigating. Nothing in that investigation changes the fact that your loved one was in the right lane, going the right way, when someone coming the wrong way took his life. The question that probably brought you here is the one most families in this situation ask first, and the answer surprises people: yes, you can recover compensation even when the at-fault driver is also dead. The path to that recovery is not obvious, and the insurance industry counts on you not knowing it exists. We are going to tell you…

Stop-Sign Violation at Knox Ave and W. University in Ector County Kills Tyson Cooper Avery, Injures Rachel Avery and Three Minors: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death and Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Liability Carrier Plus UM/UIM Recovery When the Negligent Driver Does Not Survive, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data From Both Vehicles Before It Overwrites, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Doctrine, 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 Crash on FM 2020: What Your Family Needs to Know After Two Deaths and Four Injuries at the Knox Avenue Stop Sign If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was in the Yukon on FM 2020 Friday night — or because you lost someone at that intersection on Knox Avenue — you are in the worst hours of your life, and the last thing you need is a law firm talking down to you. So we will talk straight. Two people are dead. Four more are hurt, three of them children. The man who ran the stop sign is one of the dead, which changes everything about how recovery works in Texas. The insurance company already has a file open. The tow yard already has both vehicles. The black-box data inside those vehicles is already on a clock. And the decisions you make in the next few days will decide whether your family has the evidence and the coverage to pursue what Texas law says you are owed. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle car accident cases and wrongful death claims across Texas, and this page is written…

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…

Silverado Runs the Stop Sign at West 16th and Tripp in Ector County, Texas — Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident, 2 Dead When a Full-Size Chevrolet Pickup T-Boned a Compact VW Polo in the 5:10 A.M. Permian Basin Commute, Oscar Hernandez and Victoria Rosales Killed at the Scene — Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver, the Employer Behind the Pre-Dawn Oilfield Run, the Dram-Shop Provider If Toxicology Confirms Impairment, and General Motors on Vehicle-Defect Theory, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data, DPS Toxicology and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for the Families, Punitive Damages for Conscious Indifference If Intoxication Is Proven, 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 Crash: Two Lives Lost at West 16th Street and Tripp Avenue If you are reading this, someone you love is gone. Maybe you got the call before sunrise. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen in Odessa, or in a home across the border in Mexico, trying to understand how a morning that started like any other ended with two names on a crash report and a silence that will not fill back in. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what your family’s rights are under Texas law, and what is disappearing — right now, while you read — that you need to save before it is gone. At approximately 5:10 a.m. on May 23, 2026, a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was traveling south on Tripp Avenue in Ector County, approaching the intersection of West 16th Street. A Volkswagen Polo was traveling west on West 16th Street, heading toward that same intersection. The Silverado entered the intersection without stopping. It struck the right side of the Polo. The impact was violent enough to propel both vehicles off the road and into the southwest corner of the intersection, where they crashed…

Wrong-Way Head-On Collision on SH 302 in Ector County, Texas Kills Sebastian Trevino, 25, and Juan Guerrero, 26 — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Fatal Permian Basin Highway Crashes, We Pursue the Wrong-Way Driver, the Bar That May Have Overserved Them at 4:45 AM, Ford Motor Company, and Every Liable Party, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Claims, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data and Blood Toxicology Before Bar Surveillance Overwrites, a Pickup-vs-Compact-Sedan Mass Ratio at Highway Closing Speed That Predicts Polytrauma for Surviving Occupants Including the 16-Year-Old, Texas Negligence-Per-Se for Wrong-Way Driving, Dram-Shop Liability, and the Wrongful-Death Act, 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: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on State Highway 302 in the pre-dawn darkness of December 7, 2025. Maybe you got the call from Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. Maybe you got a call from someone who recognized the name on the DPS report. Maybe you are sitting in a waiting room right now, or sitting at a kitchen table that has too many empty chairs already. We are writing this for you — one person, in crisis, trying to understand what happened and what to do next. Here is what the Texas Department of Public Safety has reported: at approximately 4:45 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, a 2014 Ford F-150 was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of SH 302 near the FM 181 intersection in Ector County. A 2017 Hyundai Elantra was traveling eastbound. The two vehicles collided head-on. Two passengers in the Hyundai — two young men from Odessa, 25 and 26 years old — were pronounced dead at the scene. Three people were transported to Medical Center Hospital, including the driver and a passenger from the Ford…

Wrong-Way Head-On Crash on SH 302 in Ector County, Texas: Sebastian Trevino and Juan Guerrero Killed, Jesus Montoya Seriously Injured When a Ford F-150 Driving Against Oncoming Traffic Struck Their Hyundai Elantra at 4:45 A.M. — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic-Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner for Negligent Entrustment, and Any Bar That Served a 19-Year-Old Under Texas Dram-Shop Law, We Hold Manufacturers Like Ford Motor Company When Crashworthiness Fails in Head-On Collisions, We Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data and Blood Toxicology Before Surveillance Footage Overwrites in 30 Days, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Fatal Crashes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Gross-Negligence Punitive Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Two Odessa Men Killed in a Wrong-Way Head-On Crash on SH 302 — What the Families Need to Know Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Hyundai on State Highway 302 before dawn on December 7, 2025, the first thing we want you to know is this: the people who were killed were doing everything right. They were wearing their seat belts. They were traveling in the correct direction. They bear no responsibility for what happened to them. The law provides a path to accountability, and this page is written to show you that path — what it looks like, what the timeline is, what evidence is disappearing while you read, and what to do in the hours and days ahead. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and car accident cases across Texas. This page is legal information and a resource for families in crisis — it is not legal advice, and nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. But everything here is real, it is specific to what happened on SH 302, and it is written by the trial attorneys who would handle a case like this…

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash on SH-302 at W. Yukon Ave in Ector County, Texas: Kennedy Kimberly Kay, 49, of San Angelo Pronounced Dead at the Scene After a Commercial Tractor-Trailer Failed to Yield the Right of Way at the Intersection — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Carriers and the Oilfield-Hauling Contractor Shells They Hide Behind, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Commercial Crashes, We Extract the ELD Logs and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA Post-Fatality Drug-and-Alcohol Testing Mandate and Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum Under 49 CFR, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Stowers Settlement Doctrine That Forces Insurers to Evaluate Policy-Limits Exposure, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on SH-302: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family The intersection of State Highway 302 and West Yukon Avenue sits in the heart of the Permian Basin — Ector County, just outside Odessa — on a corridor that carries some of the heaviest commercial truck traffic in Texas. On the evening of May 28, 2026, at approximately 8:00 p.m., a semi-truck failed to yield the right of way at that intersection. A 49-year-old woman from San Angelo, driving a passenger vehicle, struck the front of the semi. She was pronounced dead at the scene. If you are her family — her spouse, her child, her parent — you are reading this in the worst days of your life, and we will not waste your time with platitudes. Here is what is true, what is disappearing, and what you can still do about it. The first thing you need to hear is the simplest and the most important: her death was not her fault. A semi-truck failed to yield the right of way at a controlled intersection. That violation of basic traffic law — and federal commercial-vehicle regulation — is the cause of this tragedy. The trucking…

Derek Wayne Pearson, 49, Killed When a Semi Truck Failed to Yield at the SH 302 and FM 866 Stop Sign in Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier Behind a Nighttime Failure-to-Yield on a Permian Basin Corridor That Blocked the Highway and Left a Belted Driver No Room to Avoid the Trailer, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data, the Hours-of-Service Logs and the Post-Crash Drug and Alcohol Tests Before the Evidence Overwrite Clock Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Matters, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents, FMCSA Post-Accident Testing Required After Every Fatal Commercial Crash — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night SH 302 Went Dark — What Happened to Your Family SH 302 is dark at 7:30 in January. The sun set behind the Winkler County line nearly two hours ago, and what remains is the kind of West Texas dark that makes a tractor-trailer pulling across a two-lane highway look like a wall that appeared from nowhere. There are no streetlights out there. There is no intersection lighting. There is a stop sign on FM 866, a stop sign the driver of that semi was required by law to obey, and a highway full of traffic that had the right of way and no warning that a loaded trailer was about to block both westbound lanes. Your husband, your father, your son — Derek Wayne Pearson, 49, from Bellville — was wearing his seatbelt. He was traveling westbound in the inside lane of SH 302, exactly where he was supposed to be. He had the right of way. A 2022 Ford F-250 is a substantial vehicle, but it is nothing against the side of a semi trailer at highway speed. He hit that trailer because it was in his lane and he could not stop in time, because…