Fatal Semi-Truck Collision at East Buttles and State in Midland Claims 85-Year-Old Man’s Life: Attorney911 Pursues the Interstate Motor Carrier Behind the Out-of-State Commercial Driver, an 80,000-Pound Rig Versus a Passenger Car at an Urban Intersection Where the Stopping-Distance Math Is Dispositive, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Auto-Purge, Mandatory Post-Accident Drug Testing Under 49 CFR 382.303 for Fatal Crashes, We Preserve Signal-Timing Logs and Business Surveillance Near the Intersection Before the Overwrite Loop, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Carrier Claims Teams Value and Deny These Cases, Michigan’s Wrongful Death Act and the 50% 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
A Fatal Semi-Truck Crash at East Buttles and State: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this, someone you love was in that passenger car at the intersection of East Buttles and State streets in Midland on Saturday, July 4, 2026, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. An 85-year-old man who meant something to you was taken to MyMichigan Medical Center Midland and did not survive. An 85-year-old woman — probably his wife, probably your mother or grandmother — was treated there for injuries that the first reports called non-life-threatening. And the man who drove the semi-truck, a 47-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, walked away without a scratch. That last fact is not bad luck. It is physics. A loaded tractor-trailer can outweigh a passenger car by twenty to thirty times. In fatal crashes involving large trucks, roughly two of every three people killed are not in the truck — they are in the other vehicle. The man who walked away from this was inside the machine that always wins this collision. Your family member was inside the machine that always loses it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are trial lawyers…