Reeves County, Texas

Aug 25, 2026

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…

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Aug 25, 2026

Fatal US 285 Head-On Collision in Reeves County, Texas: One Dead, One Hospitalized on the Permian Basin’s Death Highway — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Oilfield-Corridor Crashes, We Pull the F-150 EDR Black-Box and the Semi’s ELD Telematics Before the Overwrite Cycle, We Pursue the At-Fault Estate and the Commercial Carrier Behind the Rig, Texas’s 51% Comparative-Fault Bar and the State Wrongful-Death Act Applied to Cross-Over Collisions, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies Cases, 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

Fatal US 285 Crash in Reeves County: What Happened and What Your Family Needs to Know You are reading this because someone you love was on US 285 in Reeves County on a Saturday morning in August 2026, and now your world has a crack through the middle of it. Maybe you got the phone call from the hospital. Maybe you got the one from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen that is too quiet, trying to understand how a routine drive on a highway everyone in Reeves County knows turned into a funeral and a hospital bed. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on that road — and everything the insurance companies hope you do not figure out in time. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — before he walked to this side of the table. We handle these cases in Texas. We do not get…

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Aug 25, 2026

Head-On Semi-Truck Fatality in Reeves County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Carriers Behind the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor Where 80,000-Pound Rigs Meet Two-Lane Highways, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the ELD Logs Before the 8-Day Overwrite and the ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Purge, FMCSA Hours-of-Service and Financial-Responsibility Rules Under 49 CFR, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases & Millions in Wrongful-Death Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death Act, Survival Doctrine and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Saturday Morning in Reeves County: What This Crash Means for Your Family You are reading this because a Saturday morning on a Reeves County highway turned into the worst day your family has ever faced. A semi-truck came across the road — head-on — and now one person you love is gone and another is fighting to survive. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating. You are standing in a hospital hallway or sitting at a kitchen table that has a folder of papers on it and a phone that keeps ringing with people you do not want to talk to. We know what those calls are. We know who is making them. And we know what they are designed to do. This page is not a brochure. It is the full legal and practical map of what happens next — what your rights are under Texas law, what the trucking company is already doing to protect itself, what evidence is dying while you read this, and what a case like yours is actually worth in Reeves County. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases in Texas. Ralph…

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Jul 24, 2026

US 285 Semi Truck Crash & Fire in Reeves County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues Odessa Carriers Like Truway Xpress LLC and the Negligent-Training Claims Behind Stop-Sign Failure-to-Yield Collisions on the Permian Basin’s Death Highway, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Pull the Driver Qualification File Before It Is Purged, FMCSA Training Requirements Under 49 CFR and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Commercial Truck Fire Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total Including $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases, Texas Comparative Fault and the Stowers Duty That Exposes the Carrier’s Insurer to Excess Verdicts — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County US 285 Semi Truck Crash and Fire: The Truway Xpress LLC Lawsuit and Your Rights After a West Texas Oilfield Trucking Wreck You were on Highway 285. Or someone you love was. And now you are sitting with a crash report, a phone full of calls from insurance people who sound friendly and are not, and a body that may be telling you things are worse than the first scan suggested. The truck caught fire. You already know that changes everything — you just don’t know yet how much it changes for the legal case, and for the years of medical care that may follow. We are going to tell you. Not in jargon. Not in promises. In the same language we would use across your kitchen table at two in the morning, because that is when most people in your situation are reading this page. On October 15, 2025, two semi trucks collided on US Highway 285 near the SH 302 interchange in Reeves County, Texas. According to the Texas Peace Officer’s Crash Report, the driver of one semi — an employee of Truway Xpress LLC, an Odessa-based trucking company — failed to yield the right-of-way at…

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Jul 21, 2026

Construction-Zone Tractor-Trailer Fatality on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carrier Behind the 2005 Freightliner Columbia That Struck 24-Year-Old Worker Patrick Daniel Purdon in an Active Work Zone and Kept Driving Until a Construction Supervisor Stopped the Rig, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice on the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, the Driver Qualification File and Post-Accident Drug-Test Results on the FMCSA’s 32-Hour Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Exemplary Damages for Failure to Stop and Render Aid as Conscious Disregard, 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

Reeves County, Texas: A Construction Worker Killed on I-20 — and the Evidence That Is Already Dying If you are reading this page, someone you love was working on Interstate 20 in Reeves County on April 3, 2025, and a tractor-trailer came through that construction zone and did not stop. The driver has been charged with failure to stop and render aid in a collision involving death. The trucking company that put that driver and that 20-year-old Freightliner on the road has not been named in the news. And every hour that passes without a preservation letter on file is an hour the evidence is erasing itself — the engine data, the driver’s qualification file, the construction-zone configuration, the drug test that federal law required within 32 hours and that window has already closed. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what the law allows your family to pursue, what the trucking company is already doing to protect itself, and what evidence has to be frozen before it disappears. This is not a sales pitch. This is the education a family needs at 2 a.m. when the funeral is being planned and the adjuster has…

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Jul 17, 2026

Oilfield Accident & Wrongful Death on a Reeves County, Texas Frac Site: Edward Rodriguez, 45, Killed by a Pressurized Device Rupture at the ProPetro-Operated Permian Resources-Guthrie State D 132H Well Pad, a Second Worker’s Arm Injury May Require Amputation, OSHA Investigating — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Frac Operator, the Well-Site Operator and the Equipment Manufacturer Behind the Rupture, We Secure the Ruptured Device, the Frac Job Logs and the Pressure Data Before They Are Scrapped or Overwritten, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Corporate Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Cases, Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine: If the Employer Opted Out of Workers’ Comp It Faces Full Tort Liability With No Contributory-Negligence Defense, the Statute of Limitations Is Running and Physical Evidence Disappears Within Days — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County Oilfield Accident: One Dead, Two Injured at a ProPetro Frac Site on SH 285 If you found this page, you already know what happened on the night of January 27, 2025, eight miles south of Pecos on State Highway 285, at the Permian Resources–Guthrie State D 132H well site where ProPetro Services was running a hydraulic fracturing operation. A pressurized device ruptured. A 45-year-old man named Edward Rodriguez was killed — decapitated by the energy release. Two other workers were injured, one so badly he may lose an arm, the other treated for lesser injuries at Reeves Regional Hospital in Pecos before the most badly hurt was flown to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, the regional trauma center more than an hour away. We are not going to pretend that what happened to your family is a statistic. A man went to work on a frac pad in the Delaware Basin and did not come home. Two other men were hurt beside him. And right now, while you are reading this at a kitchen table or a hospital waiting room, the evidence that would explain exactly what failed and why is disappearing — the ruptured device, the pressure…

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Jul 17, 2026

Semi-Truck Collision and Fire on Highway 285 Near the 302 Interchange in Reeves County, Texas — David Noel Montanez’s Rig in Flames After a Stop-Sign Right-of-Way Failure, Attorney911 Pursues Truway Xpress LLC and the Carrier Training Deficiencies Behind Commercial Trucking Crashes, We Pull the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Driver Qualification Files Before the Overwrite, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $2.5M+ Recovered in Truck-Crash Cases, 49 CFR Training and Supervision Violations, Texas Proportionate-Responsibility Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on Highway 285 — and Why the Clock Is Already Running If you are reading this because a semi truck turned into your path on Highway 285 and your world caught fire — literally or figuratively — you are in the hardest hours of your life. You may be in a hospital bed in Odessa, or sitting at a kitchen table in Pecos with a folder of bills and a phone full of calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not. You may be the one who was burned, or you may be the family of someone who was. Either way, the crash already happened. What happens next is the part that decides whether you get justice or get swallowed by a system designed to close your file cheaply. Here is the first thing you need to know, and it is not comfort — it is a warning. The truck that hit you on Highway 285 near the 302 interchange on October 15, 2025, generated evidence the moment it happened. A driver’s log. A truck’s engine computer. A camera on the dashboard. A post-crash drug and alcohol test result — or the written excuse for…

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Jul 16, 2026

Construction Zone Wrongful Death on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Patrick Daniel Purdon, 24, Struck and Killed by a Hit-and-Run Tractor-Trailer in an Active Work Zone: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pursue the Motor Carriers and the Contractor Shells Behind the Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, FMCSA Construction-Zone Caution Requirements Under 49 CFR 392.14, Texas Wrongful-Death and Gross-Negligence Doctrine When a Driver Flees the Scene, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County I-20 Tractor-Trailer Hit-and-Run: A Construction Worker Killed in the Work Zone He Was Protecting The call came and your world stopped. A young man from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico — 24 years old, working a construction job on Interstate 20 in Reeves County — was doing his duty inside an active work zone when a tractor-trailer came through and took his life. The truck did not stop. It reentered the westbound lane and kept driving until a construction supervisor flagged it down. Your loved one was pronounced dead at the scene. If you are reading this, you are probably his family. You are probably reading at an hour when most people sleep, because sleep left somewhere around the second night, and what replaced it is questions. Who is responsible. What evidence still exists. What the trucking company is already doing. What your family’s rights actually are while the hours pass. This page exists to answer those questions — not with platitudes, but with the specific law, the specific evidence clocks, and the specific steps that decide whether accountability happens or slips away. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial truck crash cases and…

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Jul 4, 2026

Semi Truck Crash and Fire on US Highway 285 Near the 302 Interchange in Reeves County, Texas, David Noel Montanez’s Rig Ignited After a Failure-to-Yield Collision on a High-Risk Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, Attorney911 Pursues Truway Xpress LLC and the Motor Carriers Behind Undertrained Drivers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys the Speed, Braking and Hours-of-Service Records, the Fire-Damaged Truck Heads to Salvage Within Weeks and the Evidence Window Is Measured in Days, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies These Cases, Texas Comparative Fault With a 51% Bar and the Stowers Duty That Exposes the Carrier Above Policy Limits, FMCSA Entry-Level Driver Training Requirements Under 49 CFR and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The US 285 Semi Truck Crash That Changed Everything — What Happened in Reeves County on October 15, 2025 If you are reading this because you or someone you love was on US Highway 285 in Reeves County on October 15, 2025, when two semi trucks collided and one caught fire — we are talking directly to you. Not to a general audience. To the person sitting in a hospital room, or at a kitchen table covered in medical bills and tow-yard notices, trying to understand what just happened to their life. Here is what we know from the public record. On October 15, a semi truck operated by a driver employed by Truway Xpress LLC of Odessa, Texas, failed to yield the right-of-way at a stop sign-controlled intersection on US 285 near the Highway 302 interchange in Reeves County. The driver attempted a turn into the path of a second semi truck. The second truck collided with the first. At least one of the trucks caught fire. The driver of the second semi has filed suit against the at-fault driver and Truway Xpress, alleging negligent operation and negligent training. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 million in damages. That…

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