Midland, Michigan

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…

Fatal Semi-Truck Crash at East Buttles and State in Midland, Michigan: An 85-Year-Old Man Died in a Collision Between His Car and an Interstate Semi-Truck at the Intersection — Attorney911 Pursues the Carriers and Employer Shells Behind Out-of-State Commercial Drivers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Secure the Traffic-Signal Timing That Establishes Right-of-Way, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, FMCSA Compliance Under 49 CFR and the MCS-90 Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Michigan’s Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Intersection Where Your World Stopped East Buttles and State. A Saturday afternoon, July 4, 2026. A holiday in Midland—the kind of day families spend together, not the kind that ends at a hospital with a doctor walking into a waiting room. An 85-year-old man and his wife were in their car at that intersection. A semi-truck was in the same intersection. The truck driver, a 47-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, walked away without a scratch. Both people in the car were taken by ambulance to MyMichigan Medical Center Midland with serious injuries. The man did not survive. His wife, also 85, was being treated for what the hospital called non-life-threatening injuries—a phrase that means something different at eighty-five than it does at thirty-five. We are writing this for that family. Not for the curious, not for the searcher who wants a definition. For the person sitting at a kitchen table in Midland at 2 a.m. with a death certificate and a hospital bracelet and a phone full of missed calls from numbers they do not recognize. We are a trial firm that takes Michigan trucking wrongful-death cases, and what follows is everything we would tell you if we were sitting…

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…