Martin County, Texas

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on Highway 349 in Martin County, Texas — Adrian Ortiz Cano, 43, of Midland, Killed When His Freightliner Struck a Turning Peterbilt Trailer and Caught Fire: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, We Pursue the Carrier Behind the Turning Trailer, the Manufacturer Behind the Fuel-System Fire, and the Private-Road Owner Behind the Turnoff Design, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Uses a Preliminary DPS Report to Value and Deny Wrongful-Death Claims, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Inspect the Trailer Conspicuity Tape and Rear Lighting Before the Overwrite, 49 CFR 390-399 Equipment and Financial-Responsibility Standards, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, 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

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on Highway 349 in Martin County, Texas — What the Family Needs to Know Now If you found this page, someone you love is gone. A truck driver — a husband, a father, a son, a man who went to work on Highway 349 on April 28, 2026, and did not come home — was killed when his Freightliner collided with the rear of a Peterbilt trailer that was turning onto a private road. The Freightliner caught fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene. You are reading this at a kitchen table or on a phone in a hallway at 2 a.m., and the Texas Department of Public Safety has already issued a preliminary report that says the driver who died “failed to control his speed.” We need you to hear something before anything else: that preliminary report is not the final word. It is an initial law-enforcement characterization, written in the first days after a crash from incomplete information, before the electronic data has been downloaded, before the trailers have been inspected, before the fire has been analyzed, and before any court has decided anything. The law does not let a DPS officer’s first impression…

Fatal Two-Semi Rear-End Collision at FM 829 & FM 3113, Martin County, Texas: 21-Year-Old Odessa Driver Lediar Morejon Cabrera Killed When His Freightliner Struck a Turning Semi Trailer on a Rural Farm-to-Market Road — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Motor Carriers and Operating Entities Behind Both Rigs, Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases It, Investigate Brake Failure on the 22-Year-Old Freightliner and Trailer Conspicuity Under FMCSA Lighting Rules, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Crashes, Texas Wrongful-Death Law and the Non-Subscriber Rule That Can Strip an Employer’s Common-Law Defenses, 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

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash at FM 829 and FM 3113 in Martin County, Texas — Legal Analysis for Families If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from work on a Tuesday morning in January. A 21-year-old from Odessa was driving a semi-truck southbound on FM 829 in Martin County when he struck the trailer of another semi that had slowed to turn east onto FM 3113. He was transported to Martin County Hospital in Stanton, where he was pronounced dead. The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued a preliminary report, and it may have left you with the impression that the blame is settled — that this was a single-vehicle failure, that the young driver simply did not brake in time. That impression is wrong. Or more precisely, it is premature. The preliminary DPS report is the first word, not the last. It was written before any mechanical inspection of either truck, before any black-box data was downloaded, before any accident reconstructionist measured a single skid mark or gouge in the pavement. And the report itself contains a phrase that should tell you everything about how far this investigation has to go: the driver “failed…

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision at FM 829 & FM 3113 in Martin County, Texas: When DPS Says 21-Year-Old Lediar Morejon Cabrera of Odessa Failed to Control Speed for Unknown Reasons, Attorney911 Investigates the 22-Year-Old Freightliner’s Brake System, the Other Truck’s Turn-Signal Compliance, and the Oilfield Employer’s Non-Subscriber Status — 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 Commercial Trucking Death Claims, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Pull the Maintenance Records Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped, FMCSA Regulations Under 49 CFR 390-399, the Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar That Makes Fault Allocation the Central Battleground, 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

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash at FM 829 and FM 3113 in Martin County, Texas — Legal Rights for Families of Permian Basin Oilfield Truck Drivers If you are reading this, someone you love left for work on a January morning in the Permian Basin and did not come home. The phone call came. The Department of Public Safety has issued a preliminary report. And in that report are three words that matter more than any others in the investigation of your family member’s death: “for unknown reasons.” Those three words mean the investigation is not finished. They mean the cause has not been established. They mean the door to justice is still open — and that the evidence which could explain what really happened on FM 829 is disappearing right now, while you grieve. We are Attorney911. We are a Texas trial firm that takes commercial trucking and oilfield accident cases across the Permian Basin. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, and 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 the person you lost. Now they sit on your side…