Midland: MVA — general wrecks Personal Injury

Fatal Car Crash & Wrongful Death Attorneys Serving Midland and the Permian Basin, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Insurer Behind Them on Highways Where Oilfield Traffic and High-Speed Rural Stretches Drive Elevated Fatality Rates, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Cases, We Move to Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data, Cell Phone Records and Police Crash Report Before the Evidence Window Closes, Texas Wrongful Death Law Gives Surviving Parents the Right to Mental Anguish and Loss-of-Companionship Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Wrongful Death After a Fatal Car Crash: Your Rights, the Evidence Clock, and the Fight for Accountability Under Texas Law You are reading this because someone you love is not coming home. Maybe it was on I-20 between Midland and Odessa, or on US-285 cutting south through the oilfield, or on SH-191 where the speed limit is high and the headlights you trusted turned out to be the last thing anyone ever saw. A mother in this region recently turned the worst day of her life into a memorial project — a tribute to the daughter she lost in a crash on a Permian Basin road. The grief that drove her to create something enduring in her child’s name is the same grief the law calls “loss of companionship and society.” It is not just a human story. Under Texas law, it is compensable. It is evidence. It is the heart of a wrongful death claim. We are writing this page for the family at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. — the one holding a folder of funeral bills, a phone that will not stop buzzing with messages from people who mean well but do not know what…

Fatal Crossover Collision with a Semi-Truck on Highway 115 Near Andrews: Omar Padilla-Arrieta of Odessa Pronounced Dead at the Scene, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridors Outside Midland, We Pursue the Unidentified Carrier and the At-Fault Driver Behind the 80,000-Pound Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Crossover Wrongful-Death Cases, We Extract the ELD and EDR Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite and Pull the Dashcam Footage Before the 72-Hour Window Closes, Texas’s 51% Comparative-Fault Bar Means the Causation Investigation Is Everything — a Crossover Is an Effect Not a Cause, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recoveries — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Highway 115 Near Andrews, Texas: When a Crossover Collision With a Semi-Truck Kills — What the Family Needs to Know Right Now If you found this page, you are probably sitting with a phone in your hand and a fact you cannot make sense of: someone you love was driving north on Highway 115 just outside Andrews, and at 6:31 in the morning their vehicle crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a semi-truck. They did not survive. The Department of Public Safety wrote it up in a report that makes it sound like the crash was their fault — one sentence, one direction of travel, one conclusion. And now you are being told to accept it. We are writing this page because that DPS report is a starting point, not an ending. A vehicle does not leave its lane for no reason. The reason it left is the single most important question in your case, and the answer is sitting in evidence that is disappearing right now — the truck’s electronic logs, the car’s black box, the dashcam footage, the autopsy samples, the skid marks on the asphalt. Every one of those has a clock on it, and…

Tomas Ruiz Jr., 44, of Odessa Killed in Head-On Semi-Truck Collision on SH 176 in Martin County | Attorney911 — Midland: MVA — General Wrecks & Permian Basin Wrongful-Death Attorneys With Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Carriers and Oilfield Logistics Companies Behind the Volvo Tractor-Trailer, 80,000-Pound Rigs vs. Passenger Cars on Two-Lane Corridors With No Median Barrier, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Dashcam Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, DPS Says the Victim Crossed the Centerline but Preliminary Findings Are Not Crash Reconstruction, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Modified Comparative Negligence and the 51% 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

SH 176 Head-On Semi-Truck Fatal Crash in Martin County, Texas: What the Family Needs to Know Now If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from SH 176 on the night of May 16. A 44-year-old man from Odessa was killed when his vehicle and a commercial Volvo semi-truck collided head-on on a dark, two-lane stretch of highway through Martin County. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver walked away without injury. And the Texas Department of Public Safety has issued a preliminary finding that the passenger vehicle crossed into the westbound lane. We need to tell you something about that finding right now, before anything else: it is preliminary. It reflects the first observations at a dark crash scene on a rural highway, made before the toxicology results are back, before the crash reconstruction is complete, before the truck’s electronic data has been downloaded, and before anyone has inspected the 25-year-old vehicle for a mechanical failure that could explain why it crossed the center line. Investigations of commercial trucking fatalities routinely evolve — sometimes dramatically — as the full evidence comes in. What DPS wrote in its first report is the starting…

Andrews County Head-On Collision Kills Nine Near Midland When a Pickup Crossed the Center Line at 75 MPH Into a University Golf-Team Van and Both Vehicles Burned: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death Litigation, We Pursue the At-Fault Estate, the University’s Student-Athlete Transportation Duty, and the Vehicle Manufacturers Behind the Post-Collision Fire, We Secure the NTSB Report, the EDR Black-Box Data, and the Toxicology and Cell-Phone Records Before They Are Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Fatality Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Texas Wrongful-Death Law Imposes No Damage Caps on Motor-Vehicle Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The FM 1788 Head-On Collision: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Texas Law Says About Nine Lives Lost in West Texas If you found this page, you are likely carrying one of two things — grief for someone who died on that two-lane road in Andrews County, or the weight of trying to understand how nine people can be taken in a single instant on a highway you have probably driven yourself. We are not going to give you a news summary. You already know the facts. What we are going to give you is what the news never explains: the legal architecture beneath a catastrophe like this — who can be held accountable under Texas law, what the deadlines are, what the evidence looks like, what the insurance reality actually is, and why the difference between a case that recovers and a case that disappears is measured in days, not months. We write this as the senior trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, building wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm before crossing to our side of…

Nine Killed When an Unlicensed 13-Year-Old Driver Crossed the Center Line and Struck a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van Head-On Near Andrews, Northwest of Midland — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death Litigation, We Pursue Negligent-Entrustment Claims Against Every Adult Who Handed the Keys to a Child Legally Ineligible to Drive, We Investigate the Post-Collision Fire for Fuel-System Design and Product-Liability Exposure, We Secure the NTSB Findings and EDR Black-Box Data Before the Evidence Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Nine Catastrophic Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With No Statutory Cap on Non-Economic Damages 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

Nine Lives Lost on a Dark Two-Lane Road: The Andrews County Van Collision and What the Law Says About It If you found this page, someone you love may be gone — or fighting to survive — after a catastrophic collision on a rural highway in the Permian Basin. You may be sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning, staring at a phone that stopped ringing, trying to understand how a road your family traveled a hundred times took everything in one second. You may have heard that nine people died and that a child was driving the other vehicle, and you are trying to make sense of what that means for your family’s future. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what the law allows, and what to do next — because the first thing the insurance company wants is for you to not understand any of it. On the evening of March 15, 2022, a Dodge pickup truck traveling on a two-lane rural road in Andrews County, Texas — about nine miles from the town of Andrews, in the heart of the Permian Basin oil field corridor — crossed into…

9 Dead in Fiery Head-On Collision as a Pickup Crosses the Centerline at 75 mph and Strikes a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van Returning From a Midland Tournament, Two Survivors Airlifted in Critical Condition — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic-Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner, and Every Insurance Layer When Both Vehicles Erupt in Flames on a Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data, Toxicology and Cell-Phone Records Before Fire Damage and Surveillance Overwrite Cycles Destroy the Evidence, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Stowers Doctrine That Forces Insurers to Settle Within Limits or Face Excess-Judgment Bad Faith — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Nine Lives Lost on a Dark West Texas Highway: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Families Must Do Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that van — a son or daughter, a brother or sister, a teammate, a coach, a friend — we want you to hear something before anything else. What happened on that two-lane highway in Andrews County on the evening of March 15, 2022, was not something you could have prevented, and it was not something anyone in that van did wrong. A pickup truck crossed the centerline into oncoming traffic at highway speed. Both vehicles burned. Nine people are dead. Two young people survived with critical injuries and were flown 110 miles to a trauma center in Lubboch. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a full investigative team because the federal government considers this crash serious enough to study at the national level. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases across Texas. This page is written for the families of everyone in that van and for anyone who has lost someone in a head-on collision on a rural West Texas highway.…