Texas Personal Injury

Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Tractor-Trailer Crash on U.S. Highway 385 in Crane County, Texas: 84-Year-Old Derell Wayne Harvey Killed When His Chevy Silverado Struck a Stopped Volvo VNL Trailer in a Road-Construction Zone — Attorney911 Pursues the Trucking Operator Behind the Stopped Rig and the Traffic-Control Contractor Responsible for the Work Zone, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Commercial Carrier’s Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Crash Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Pull the Construction-Zone Traffic-Control Plans Before They Are Revised, 49 CFR Stopped-Vehicle Warning Requirements and Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine with Its Comparative-Fault Framework, 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

Your Father Died on US 385. Here Is What No One Has Told You Yet. You got the call on a Tuesday evening. An 84-year-old man from Crane — your father, your grandfather, your husband — was driving his 2001 Chevrolet Silverado north on US Highway 385. Somewhere along that stretch of two-lane highway that cuts through the heart of the Permian Basin, a tractor-trailer was stopped in the road. Road construction. The pickup hit the back of the trailer. He was taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, thirty miles and a lifetime from home, and that is where he died. He was wearing his seat belt. DPS says the crash is under investigation. That is all you know. Here is what we know that the DPS report will not say, and what the insurance company is already working to make sure you never find out: a stopped tractor-trailer on a highway is not just a hazard — it is a situation the law built specific duties around. The truck driver had duties. The company that operated that truck had duties. The contractor that set up the construction zone had duties. If any of them failed, the rear-end collision…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Rollover & Fire Near Midland: Odessa Man Dead, Attorney911 Fights for Permian Basin Families in Wrongful-Death Cases Against the Carrier and the Oilfield Trucking Companies Behind Rollover Crashes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Dashcam Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, the Center-of-Gravity Shift and Post-Crash Diesel Fire That Turned a Highway Rollover Into a Fatal Trap, 49 CFR 390-399 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act Recovery for Bereaved Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Semi-Truck Rollover and Fire: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland, still wearing the clothes you had on when the call came, we want you to hear one thing first: everything you do in the next few days is either going to protect your family’s rights or quietly surrender them. Not because the law is unfair — but because the trucking company’s crisis-response team is already moving, and the evidence that proves what happened is already dying on a federal clock. We are Attorney911. We handle commercial-truck wrongful-death cases. This page is what we would tell you if we were sitting across that table from you right now. An Odessa man is dead after a semi truck rolled over and caught fire in the Midland area. Whether he was driving the truck, riding in another vehicle, or working alongside that truck on an oilfield site, the questions that matter are the same: What caused the rollover? Why did the truck burn? Who is responsible? And what evidence still exists to prove it? The answers are not going to come to you. They are locked inside…

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Jul 17, 2026

Train Collision at the Midkiff Road Grade Crossing in Midland, Texas: When a High-Centered Tractor-Trailer Meets a Locomotive in the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, Attorney911 Pursues the Trucking Carrier That Dispatched Off-Route and the Railroad’s Crossing-Signal Maintenance, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Locomotive Event Recorder, the Signal-Inspection Logs and the ELD Telematics Before the Overwrite, FRA Grade-Crossing Regulations Under 49 CFR Part 234, $2.5M+ Recovered in Commercial-Vehicle Cases, $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at the Midkiff Road Crossing in Midland — and What It Means for You If you were on that train on October 31, 2025 — or you love someone who was — you already know the part the news got right. A tractor-trailer became high-centered on the railroad tracks where Midkiff Road meets West Industrial Avenue in Midland. The trailer’s undercarriage hung up on the raised rail bed. The truck could not go forward. It could not go back. And then the train came. You may have felt the impact before you heard it. You may have been thrown from a seat or braced against a wall. You may be a crew member who walked away from the locomotive with your ears ringing and your back screaming, telling yourself you are fine because you can walk. You may be a family member who got a phone call at 9 a.m. on a Friday and spent the rest of the day not knowing the full answer. Here is what we want you to know right now: the fact that the truck driver was cited does not mean the case is simple, and the fact that you walked away does…

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Jul 17, 2026

E-Bike Rider Tamara Jan Cates, 63, Killed When a Commercial Tractor-Trailer Struck Her From Behind on the Business 20 Service Road in Midland, Midland County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial-Vehicle Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Carriers and Operating Companies Behind the Rigs That Fail Vulnerable Road Users, the Stopping-Distance and Mass-Ratio Physics of a Commercial Tractor-Trailer Rear-Ending an E-Bike, We Pull the ELD, Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Cycle, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations Under 49 CFR 390-399 and the Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves on Fatal Commercial Crashes, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the Comparative-Fault Doctrine the Defense Will Use to Shift Blame, 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

Midland, Texas Fatal E-Bike Truck Accident — What Your Family Needs to Know After a Tractor-Trailer Killed a 63-Year-Old Woman on Business 20 If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on a Midland road by a commercial truck, we want you to know three things before anything else. First, what happened to your family is not something you have to figure out alone. Second, the law in Texas gives you real power — the right to hold the company behind that truck fully accountable, not just the driver. Third, the clock on the evidence has already started, and the trucking company is counting on you not knowing that. On Friday, February 6, 2026, at approximately 7:35 p.m., a 63-year-old Midland woman riding an electric bicycle was killed when a 2020 International truck with a towed trailer struck her from behind on the Business 20 service road near County Road 1103. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating. That is the public record. What follows is everything we know about how a case like this is built, what the law allows your family to recover, what the trucking company…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Rollover & Post-Crash Fire at FM 1776 and FM 1927, Ward County, Texas — A 2009 Peterbilt Rolled Left on a Rural Right Turn and Burned in a Bar Ditch, Killing Ildefonso Sigala Gonzalez, 62, of Odessa — Attorney911 Pursues the Employer’s Maintenance and Inspection Records, the Cargo-Loading Chain, and the Fuel-System Integrity Questions a Post-Crash Fire Raises Under FMVSS 301, 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 Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pull the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data, and Telematics Before the Overwrite and Move to Preserve Crashworthiness Evidence Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped, 49 CFR 390-399 Commercial Vehicle Regulations, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Responsibility Doctrine in Plain Language, 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

Ward County, Texas Semi-Truck Rollover and Fire: What the DPS Report Does Not Tell You The phone call came on a Saturday afternoon in late May. A 2009 Peterbilt, a right turn on a Ward County FM road, a rollover, a fire. A 62-year-old man from Odessa who drove trucks for a living did not come home. You are hearing the word “preliminary.” You are hearing DPS say the truck was traveling at an unsafe speed when it failed to negotiate the turn at FM 1776 and FM 1927. And you may be thinking: if the police say it was his fault, what is there left to do? Here is what we need you to hear. A DPS preliminary finding is one officer’s first read of a scene, written in the hours after a wreck — before the truck is inspected, before the engine computer is downloaded, before the maintenance records are pulled, before the fire pattern is analyzed, before anyone has examined the fuel system or the brakes or the steering or the cargo securement. It is a starting point for investigation. It is not a verdict. And in a case where the only person who could tell us…

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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 17, 2026

Semi-Truck Hit Train at the Highway 80 and County Road 1130 Grade Crossing in Midland, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Trucking Carrier and the Railroad Operator When a Freight Train Meets a Commercial Truck at a Rural Crossing and the Cab Is Crushed, We Pull the Locomotive Event Recorder, the Crossing-Signal Activation Logs and the Truck’s ELD Telematics Before the Overwrite, 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 Train-Versus-Truck Collisions, FRA Grade-Crossing Requirements Under 49 CFR Part 234 and FMCSA Commercial-Vehicle Rules, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Semi-Truck Meets a Train in Midland — What Happens to the Person Trapped Inside You are reading this because someone you love was trapped inside a commercial truck that hit a train at the crossing of East County Road 1130 and Highway 80, and the Midland Fire Department had to cut them out of the wreckage. That sentence carries more weight than most people will ever carry in a lifetime. We know what you are sitting with right now — the phone call, the drive to the hospital, the waiting room where nobody tells you anything fast enough. We know because this is what we do. We handle commercial-vehicle collision cases, we handle 18-wheeler and semi-truck crash cases, and we handle them in the Permian Basin, where the truck traffic is heavier and the stakes are higher than almost anywhere else in the country. Here is the first thing you need to hear: the fact that additional information was “not immediately available” in the news does not mean nothing happened. It means the evidence is still warm, still sitting in tow yards and on electronic servers and in the cab of that truck — and it means the…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on a Midland Roadway Kills a Woman Riding an E-Bike, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Pursues Wrongful-Death Claims on the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Corridors Where 80,000-Pound Rigs Share the Road With Unprotected Cyclists, Texas Wrongful-Death Law Gives the Family the Right to Hold the At-Fault Carrier and Its Contractor Shells Accountable, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Fatal Trucking Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Erases the Braking Record, Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum Under 49 CFR 390-399, 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

Midland Semi-Truck Killed a Woman on an E-Bike: What Her Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this, someone you love was killed on a bicycle in Midland by a commercial truck. The Department of Public Safety has a crash report. The truck has been towed or driven away. The driver may have been tested or may not have been. And the trucking company’s insurance adjuster has already opened a file — not to help you, but to limit what your family can ever recover. You are in the hours and days after a death that did not have to happen. An e-bike rider is the most vulnerable person on any road — no steel frame, no airbag, sitting at the height of a truck’s wheels, in a city where the oil industry has put more heavy trucks on roads built for a fraction of this traffic. The forces involved are not a collision. They are annihilation. And the company that put that truck on the road is already working to control what the evidence shows. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial trucking wrongful-death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Failure-to-Yield Collision on SH 302 Near Yukon Avenue in Odessa, Ector County, Texas Claims Kimberly Kay Kennedy, 49, of San Angelo — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial-Vehicle Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Motor Carriers, the Freight Shippers, and National Corporations Like Endo International Behind the 80,000-Pound Combinations on These Highways, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Collisions, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night Everything Changed on SH 302 — and What Happens Next If you are reading this, someone you love is not coming home. A woman from San Angelo — a daughter, a mother, a sister, a friend — was driving eastbound on SH 302 near Yukon Avenue in Odessa on a Thursday evening in late May when a semi-truck turned left across her path and she struck the trailer it was hauling. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Texas Highway Patrol is still investigating, and no further details have been released. You are probably sitting at a kitchen table or in a parked car, scrolling through your phone at an hour when the rest of the world is asleep, trying to understand what just happened to your family and what you are supposed to do now. The calls from the insurance company may have already started. Someone with a friendly voice may have already asked you to “just tell us what happened” on a recorded line. You may have been told the trucking company is “cooperating fully” and that you should “take your time” before talking to a lawyer. Here is the first thing you need to hear:…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fiery Semi-Truck Rear-End Collision on SH 349 Near Mile Marker 306 in Martin County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Family of Adrian Ortiz Cano, a Midland Truck Driver Killed in a Post-Crash Fire After a Turning Semi Created a Highway Hazard on This Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor, We Pursue the Carriers and Fleets Behind That Truck, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Commercial-Trucking Wrongful-Death Claims, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data and Maintenance Records Before the Overwrite, 49 CFR 390-399 Federal Motor-Carrier Rules and Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine, 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

The Fire on SH 349 — and the Questions the First Report Does Not Answer If you are reading this, someone you love is gone. A truck caught fire on State Highway 349 in Martin County, and a 43-year-old man from Midland did not come home. The Department of Public Safety has released a preliminary account, and you may have already heard words like “failed to control speed” attached to the truck he was driving. We want you to hear this first, before anything else: a preliminary DPS report is the beginning of an investigation, not the end of one. It is one agency’s first read of a scene that was still smoking. It is not a verdict. And it is not the whole story. The whole story includes questions the first report does not ask. Why did a rear-end collision between two semi-trucks — something that happens on highways every day — turn into a fire that killed a man? A 2020 Peterbilt was turning right onto a private road. A 2006 Freightliner was behind it. The Freightliner struck the rear of the Peterbilt’s trailer, and then the Freightliner was “fully engulfed in flames.” A man who left Midland…

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