Texas Personal Injury

Jul 16, 2026

Derek Wayne Pearson, 49, Killed When a Semi Truck Failed to Yield at the SH 302 and FM 866 Stop Sign in Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier Behind a Nighttime Failure-to-Yield on a Permian Basin Corridor That Blocked the Highway and Left a Belted Driver No Room to Avoid the Trailer, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data, the Hours-of-Service Logs and the Post-Crash Drug and Alcohol Tests Before the Evidence Overwrite Clock Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Matters, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents, FMCSA Post-Accident Testing Required After Every Fatal Commercial Crash — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night SH 302 Went Dark — What Happened to Your Family SH 302 is dark at 7:30 in January. The sun set behind the Winkler County line nearly two hours ago, and what remains is the kind of West Texas dark that makes a tractor-trailer pulling across a two-lane highway look like a wall that appeared from nowhere. There are no streetlights out there. There is no intersection lighting. There is a stop sign on FM 866, a stop sign the driver of that semi was required by law to obey, and a highway full of traffic that had the right of way and no warning that a loaded trailer was about to block both westbound lanes. Your husband, your father, your son — Derek Wayne Pearson, 49, from Bellville — was wearing his seatbelt. He was traveling westbound in the inside lane of SH 302, exactly where he was supposed to be. He had the right of way. A 2022 Ford F-250 is a substantial vehicle, but it is nothing against the side of a semi trailer at highway speed. He hit that trailer because it was in his lane and he could not stop in time, because…

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Jul 16, 2026

Nine Killed When a Pickup Crossed the Centerline Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues Stellantis for Dodge 2500 Fuel-System Crashworthiness, the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, and the University’s Transportation Duty, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data and Fuel-System Components Before Salvage Destroys Them Within Weeks, 75 mph Closing Speeds on Permian Basin Two-Lane Highways Leave No Margin for Evasive Maneuvering, NTSB Findings Are Inadmissible in Court So We Build the Independent Reconstruction, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Andrews County Van Crash: What Happened on That Dark West Texas Highway — and What It Teaches Every Family Facing a Similar Tragedy On the evening of March 15, 2022, a pickup truck crossed the centerline of a two-lane asphalt highway in Andrews County, Texas, and collided head-on with a van carrying University of the Southwest golf team members returning from a tournament at Midland College. Both vehicles erupted in flames. Nine people died. Two survived with critical injuries and were airlifted more than a hundred miles to a trauma center in Lubbock. If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or catastrophically injured in a crash anything like this one — on a high-speed two-lane highway, in a vehicle that caught fire after impact, in a van carrying students or athletes — we wrote this page for you. Not as a news summary. As a forensic case study, built the way a trial team builds a case, that tells you exactly who is liable, what the law gives your family, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what the insurance company is already doing before you ever pick up the phone. We are…

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Jul 16, 2026

Four Houston-Area Women Killed in Fatal 18-Wheeler Rear-End Crash on U.S. 87 in Hartley County, Texas — Attorney911 Wrongful Death & Trucking Accident Attorneys Pursue H-E-B and the Motor Carriers Behind the Contractor Shells, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box and Dashcam Data Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Multi-Fatality Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hartley County H-E-B Truck Accident Lawsuit: Four Women Killed on U.S. 87 — Texas Wrongful Death, Shipper Liability & the Evidence Clock If you are reading this, someone you love was taken from you on November 5, 2025, on a stretch of U.S. 87 in Hartley County where the posted speed runs 70 to 75 miles per hour and the potato trucks roll in convoys from the West Texas growing fields down to San Antonio’s distribution centers. Four young women from the Houston area — ages 19, 20, 27, and 30 — were inside a Nissan Altima that had slowed in the right lane because of a flat tire. An 18-wheeler carrying potatoes for H-E-B hit them from behind at speed. All four were pronounced dead at the scene. You may have already heard what H-E-B said publicly. You may have already received a phone call from someone who sounded sympathetic and asked you to “just tell us what happened” on a recording. You may be sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a funeral program in your hands, wondering whether the company whose cargo was in that truck can really just say “not our driver” and walk…

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Jul 16, 2026

$49 Million Ector County Verdict: 18-Wheeler Unsafe Left Turn on FM 307 Kills Steffan Robert Mick, a 29-Year-Old Husband and Father — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue Carriers Like OPG Logistics and the Oilfield Fleets Running 80,000-Pound Rigs on FM Roads Never Engineered for Sustained Heavy-Haul Traffic, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Texas Gross-Negligence Doctrine That Unlocks Exemplary Damages Against Carriers Who Act With Conscious Indifference to Safety, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies These Cases, 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

What Happened on FM 307 — and What It Means for Every Family on a Permian Basin Highway If you are reading this because someone you love was killed by a commercial truck on a West Texas highway, you are in a moment no one prepared you for. The phone call came. The highway patrol report came. The funeral home came. And now you are sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland or Andrews or Kermit, trying to understand how an 18-wheeler turned left in front of a 29-year-old husband and father on FM 307 on January 27, 2025 — and what happens next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial trucking wrongful death cases in Texas. We are not the firm that tried this case, and we are not investigating this crash. What we are doing is something different: we are telling you, as the senior trial team that takes these cases, exactly what this $49 million verdict means, how a case like this is built, what evidence is already dying on a clock you cannot see, and what your family needs to do if you are facing the same kind of loss.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Left-Turn Failure to Yield on FM 307: The Permian Basin Semi-Truck Crash That Killed Steffan Robert Mick, 29 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, Texas Wrongful Death Litigation Against the Motor Carriers Operating in the Oilfield Corridor, We Pursue OPS Logistics LLC and the Fleets Behind the Contractor Shells, We Extract the ELD Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite, 49 CFR 390-399 Financial-Responsibility and Hours-of-Service Compliance, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, 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

Ector County Jury Sends a $49 Million Message After a Semi-Truck Turned Left Into a Family’s Life and Erased It If you are reading this at 2 a.m. in Midland or Odessa or anywhere across the Permian Basin, you are probably sitting where the family of a 29-year-old man sat after January 27, 2025 — a kitchen table that suddenly became the center of an unbearable new world. The call has already come. The DPS report is already written. The trucking company’s insurance adjuster may have already reached out, sounding sympathetic, sounding helpful, sounding nothing like the machine that is actually working against you. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened on FM 307, what the law says about it, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what a $49 million verdict from an Ector County jury actually means for a family in your position. None of this is a sales pitch. It is the information we wish someone had handed us if we were sitting where you are sitting. Here is what the public record shows. On January 27, 2025, at approximately 6:41 p.m., a 2016 Peterbilt tractor-trailer operated by a commercial…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever Chemicals at 6.3 Times the EPA Limit in Abilene, Texas Drinking Water — Attorney911 Pursues the Chemical Manufacturers and AFFF Foam Producers Behind Municipal Water Contamination, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Move to Preserve Water Testing Data and Blood Serum PFAS Results Before Remediation Dilutes the Exposure Record, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Toxic Exposure, EPA PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation and CERCLA Hazardous Substance Designation, Texas Discovery Rule for Latent Disease Under the Daubert Expert Standard, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Just Found Out Your Water Isn’t Safe — and Nobody Told You How Long It Has Been That Way If you live in Abilene and you just read that the City’s water supply has PFAS — “forever chemicals” — at levels averaging 6.3 times what the EPA says is safe, you are sitting at a kitchen table asking questions that should have been answered for you months or years ago. Is the water making my family sick? How long has this been going on? The City got $8.7 million in settlement money — does any of that come to us? Should I be testing my blood? Should I be worried about the kidney cancer in my family, the thyroid condition, the high cholesterol that never made sense? We are going to answer every one of those questions on this page — not with slogans, but with the actual law, the actual science, and the actual evidence roadmap that a PFAS contamination case in Taylor County demands. We are Attorney911, a Texas trial firm that takes toxic tort cases and fights for families exposed to chemicals that should never have been in their water. We do not get paid unless…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever Chemicals in Texas Drinking Water: 47 Water Systems With Unsafe Contamination Levels — Attorney911 Pursues DuPont, 3M and the Chemical Manufacturers Behind the PFAS Crisis, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure Blood Serum PFAS Testing and EPA Water-System Data Before the Regulatory Rollback Erases It, Exposure Linked to Cancer, Infertility and Thyroid Disease Where the Texas Discovery Rule Tolls the Limitations Clock for Latent Disease, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Mass-Tort Settlements, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Texas PFAS Forever Chemicals in Your Drinking Water: What the Contamination Means for Your Health and Your Legal Rights You are reading this because something about your tap water has been eating at you. Maybe you saw the news that dozens of Texas water systems tested above what the federal government considers safe for “forever chemicals.” Maybe you have kidney cancer, or thyroid disease, or years of infertility, and a doctor or a friend or a late-night search finally connected the dots between what is in your water and what is in your body. Maybe you live in Dallas and the utility told you everything is fine — and you do not believe them, or you believe them and still want to know what was in the water before they started saying that. Maybe you are in Fort Worth, where the city is designing a treatment plant it will not finish until 2029, and you want to know what you are drinking between now and then. We are going to tell you everything we know about PFAS contamination in Texas drinking water — what the science says, what the law says, who is responsible, what your case could be worth,…

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Jul 6, 2026

Fatal I-35 18-Wheeler Wrongful Death in Troy, Texas: Cell-Phone-Distracted Tractor-Trailer Driver Kills Tracy Rambosek — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Central Texas Freight Corridor Where the Right-Hand Lane Carries the Heaviest Commercial Truck Volume, We Pursue J.B. Hunt and the National Carriers Behind the Contractor Shells, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Crashes, We Extract the Dash-Cam Footage, Phone Forensic Download, ELD Records and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, FMCSA Cell-Phone Prohibitions Under 49 CFR 392.80 and 392.82, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine, the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar and Gross-Negligence Exemplary Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases Including a $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Troy, TX I-35 Fatal Truck Crash: When a Distracted J.B. Hunt Driver Killed a Disabled Motorist If you are reading this page, someone you love was taken from you on Interstate 35. Maybe it was your wife, your mother, your grandmother — a woman who had just bought land and was planning the retirement years she and her husband had earned. Maybe you found this page at 2 a.m. because you cannot sleep, and the questions will not stop: How does a professional truck driver not see a vehicle in his lane? Why was he on his phone? Who is responsible — just the man behind the wheel, or the company that put him there? What happens to the evidence now? How long do you have? And what is this case actually worth? We are going to answer every one of those questions on this page. Not in generalities — specifically, for what happened on I-35 northbound in Troy, Bell County, Texas, before dawn on May 22, 2024, when a J.B. Hunt tractor-trailer collided with a disabled Ford Bronco sitting in the right-hand travel lane and killed the Bronco’s driver. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We…

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Jul 6, 2026

Tracy Rambosek Wrongful Death on I-35 in Bell County, Texas: A J.B. Hunt Trucker Was Screenshotting a Dating App at the Moment His 80,000-Pound Rig Rear-Ended Rambosek’s Stalled Car at Highway Speed, the Carrier’s Own In-Cab Cameras Had Flagged the Driver Twice in Six Weeks for Distracted Driving With No Meaningful Action Taken, Attorney911 Pursues Motor Carriers and Their Distracted Drivers in Fatal Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases, We Extract the In-Cab Camera Footage, Phone Records and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Purge, FMCSA Distracted-Driving Violations Under 49 CFR 392.80 and 392.82, Texas Gross Negligence and Exemplary Damages for Conscious Indifference, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, 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

Bell County, Texas Fatal Truck Crash: When a Dating App Costs a Life on I-35 If you found this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it happened on that stretch of Interstate 35 that runs through Bell County — the same corridor you have driven a hundred times, the one that connects Temple and Belton and Killeen to Austin one way and Dallas-Fort Worth the other. Maybe you got the call at dawn, or the knock at the door, and since that moment nothing has been the same. You are reading this at an hour when most people are asleep, trying to understand how a person stops being alive on a road they were just driving on. We are going to tell you what we know about what happened on May 22, 2024, on I-35 in Bell County. We are going to tell you what the law allows your family to do about it. And we are going to tell you what the company and its insurers are already doing — right now, while you are reading — to protect themselves from what this crash is going to cost them. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We…

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Jul 6, 2026

Commercial Truck Accident & Wrongful Death on I-20 Near Odessa, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues Werner Enterprises and the National Carriers Behind Trainee Drivers Dispatched Into Winter Storm Warnings, 49 CFR 392.14: Extreme Caution and Discontinued Operation When Black Ice Turns Highways Deadly, We Pull the ELD Telematics, ECM Black-Box Data and Dispatch Communications 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 These Cases, $5M+ TBI Recovery, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery, and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Comparative-Fault Rule and the Stowers Duty to Settle Within Policy Limits — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on I-20 Near Odessa, Texas: A Family Destroyed in Black Ice If you are reading this because a commercial truck hit your family on Interstate 20 — or because someone you love didn’t come home from the Permian Basin — you already know what black ice does. It turns a road that looks merely wet into something that steals traction without warning. You know the sound, or the silence, of a vehicle that is no longer answering its driver. You know what the tow yard looks like at dawn. And you may already know that the trucking company’s insurance adjuster called before the funeral. We are the trial team at Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial truck crash cases in Texas — the 18-wheelers, the tanker rigs, the linehaul freight that moves through the Permian Basin on Interstate 20 and the corridors that feed it. This page is not about our case. It is about a case that happened on the same road you may be sitting next to right now — a December 2014 crash near Odessa, Texas, that destroyed a family, produced an $89.7 million jury verdict, and then was reversed by the…

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