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Odessa Wrongful Death: A Wrong-Way Driver on 42nd Street Took Three Lives — What the Law Gives Your Family You are reading this at a time nobody should have to face. Someone you love was killed on 42nd Street in Ector County — a well-known Odessa radio voice, his partner, and a young family member, all gone in a single head-on collision. The person who caused it was driving the wrong direction down a major arterial, and he is also dead. You probably think that is the end of it. It is not. The law has answers for exactly this situation, and some of them may surprise you. When the at-fault driver is deceased, the case does not disappear. His estate stands in his shoes for liability purposes. His automobile liability insurer remains contractually obligated to cover the damages he caused, up to policy limits. And if his coverage is insufficient — which is likely, given that a 19-year-old from a small town 270 miles away may carry nothing more than Texas minimum limits — your loved one’s own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage becomes a primary recovery source. There may also be an employer behind that 270-mile drive, a vehicle owner who handed over the keys, or a bar that served someone who should not have been served. Each of those is a separate door to a separate source of recovery. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in Texas courtrooms, including…