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West Texas Head-On Bus-Tractor-Trailer Collision: 8 Cheerleaders Injured, 2 Critical — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Highway Commercial Crashes Where a Centerline Crossing at Highway Closing Speed Leaves No Margin, We Pursue the Tractor-Trailer Carrier and the Bus Operator Behind the Lane Departure, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA 49 CFR 390-399 and MCS-90 Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and $5M+ TBI Settlement, Texas Comparative-Fault 51% Bar and Tort Claims Act Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Bus Full of Children Meets an 80,000-Pound Truck on a West Texas Highway You are reading this because someone you love was on that bus. Maybe your daughter was one of the cheerleaders, sitting in a seat designed for a morning commute, not for surviving a head-on impact with a commercial tractor-trailer. Maybe you got the call at work — the one every parent dreads — and drove hours to a hospital in a town you had to look up on a map. Maybe you are reading this long after December 3, 2016, because you or someone in your family has been in a collision like it, and you need to understand what the law says, what the evidence shows, and what rights you still have. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial-vehicle and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas. This page is a legal analysis of what happened when a bus carrying high school cheerleaders collided head-on with a tractor-trailer in West Texas, injuring eight people and leaving two in critical condition. It is also a roadmap for anyone whose family has been through something similar — because the legal questions, the evidence, the…

Jorge Espinoza, 56, Killed When an Oilfield Employer’s F-250 Crossed the Double Yellow on SH 158 at 4:30 a.m., Survived by His Wife Laura and Three Sons — TX Wrongful Death & Head-On Collision Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Oilfield Employers Behind Fatigued Drivers on Dark Two-Lane Highways at the Circadian Trough, Defeating the Going-and-Coming Defense to Impose Employer Liability Under Respondeat Superior, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Fatigue Cases, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data, Dispatch and Scheduling Records Before They Are Overwritten or Destroyed, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the Gross Negligence Standard for Exemplary Damages, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Head-On Crash on a Dark West Texas Highway — and the Company Behind the Wheel If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. The phone call came in the hours before dawn, or the highway patrol officer arrived at your door, or you got the call from a coworker who could barely get the words out. A head-on collision on State Highway 158. Two heavy-duty trucks. Both drivers dead at the scene. And now the questions that follow a death like this — the questions that keep you awake at 2 a.m. — are the ones this page exists to answer. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases against corporate defendants across Texas, and we have spent more than 27 years in courtrooms — including federal court — holding companies accountable when their choices send people onto the highway who should never have been behind the wheel. What happened on SH 158 near mile marker 268 on May 19, 2025, at 4:30 in the morning is not just a tragedy. It is a case. And the case is not just against the man who crossed the center line. It is against…