Fatal Head-On Semi-Truck Crash on US-285 in Reeves County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor Where Aging Kenworth Tractors and Passenger Vehicles Collide on Two-Lane Highways, We Pursue the Carriers and Owner-Operators Behind the Equipment, We Extract the ELD, ECM and EDR Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Head-On Collisions, 49 CFR Hours-of-Service and Maintenance Standards, Texas Comparative Negligence 51% Bar and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, 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 Moment You Are In, and Why This Page Exists If you are reading this, someone you love was on US-285 in Reeves County on a Saturday morning in August, and that person is never coming home — or they are in a hospital bed, and you do not know yet what the injuries mean for the rest of their life. You may have seen the preliminary report. You may have heard that the vehicle your loved one was driving crossed the center line. And you may be sitting at a kitchen table right now thinking that means there is nothing to be done. We need you to hear this before anything else: a preliminary crash report is not a verdict. It is a starting point, not an ending point. The Texas Department of Public Safety is still investigating. The electronic data from both vehicles has not been downloaded. The witness statements have not been fully taken. The final crash report — the one that actually carries weight in a courtroom — may tell a very different story from the first narrative that reached the news. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial attorneys who…