Cross-Country Cyclist Samuel Ryar Fatally Struck by Delivery Van at 4 a.m. on U.S. 280 in Lee County, Alabama: Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the High-Speed Federal Highway Corridor Where a Commercial Van Took a Young Cyclist’s Life, We Pursue the Delivery Fleets and the Contractor Shells Behind the Driver, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the 72-Hour Overwrite and Preserve the Bicycle’s Lighting Equipment for the Contributory-Negligence Fight, Alabama’s Punitive-Only Wrongful Death Framework and Pure Contributory-Negligence Rule Make This a Binary All-or-Nothing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total Including Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
A Cross-Country Cyclist, a Dark Highway, and a Delivery Van — What Alabama Law Really Says About Your Family’s Rights If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe you learned about it from a phone call that crossed an ocean. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen in Bratislava or in an apartment in Auburn, trying to understand how a 30-year-old man pedaling across an entire continent — from the Pacific to the Atlantic — could die on a dark stretch of highway in east-central Alabama at four in the morning. We are not going to pretend that words on a page can fix what happened. What we can do — and what we are going to do on this page — is tell you the truth about what Alabama law actually says, what it does not say, and what it gives and takes from a family that has already lost everything. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Alabama wrongful death cases, working with local counsel where required, and we have spent more than two decades in courtrooms holding commercial defendants accountable when their vehicles kill…