Midland: MVA — general wrecks

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…

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.…