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Jul 16, 2026

Silverado Runs the Stop Sign at West 16th and Tripp in Ector County, Texas — Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident, 2 Dead When a Full-Size Chevrolet Pickup T-Boned a Compact VW Polo in the 5:10 A.M. Permian Basin Commute, Oscar Hernandez and Victoria Rosales Killed at the Scene — Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver, the Employer Behind the Pre-Dawn Oilfield Run, the Dram-Shop Provider If Toxicology Confirms Impairment, and General Motors on Vehicle-Defect Theory, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data, DPS Toxicology and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for the Families, Punitive Damages for Conscious Indifference If Intoxication Is Proven, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Fatal Crash: Two Lives Lost at West 16th Street and Tripp Avenue If you are reading this, someone you love is gone. Maybe you got the call before sunrise. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen in Odessa, or in a home across the border in Mexico, trying to understand how a morning that started like any other ended with two names on a crash report and a silence that will not fill back in. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what your family’s rights are under Texas law, and what is disappearing — right now, while you read — that you need to save before it is gone. At approximately 5:10 a.m. on May 23, 2026, a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was traveling south on Tripp Avenue in Ector County, approaching the intersection of West 16th Street. A Volkswagen Polo was traveling west on West 16th Street, heading toward that same intersection. The Silverado entered the intersection without stopping. It struck the right side of the Polo. The impact was violent enough to propel both vehicles off the road and into the southwest corner of the intersection, where they crashed through a fence and into a utility phone box. The driver of the Polo, 39-year-old Oscar Hernandez, and his passenger, 18-year-old Victoria Rosales — both of Mexico — died at the scene. The driver of the Silverado sustained minor injuries and was taken to the hospital. The Texas Department of…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run DWI Motorcycle Crash at University and Andrews in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — Drunk Driver with Three Prior DWI Convictions Ran a Red Light in a Jeep Commander Into a 35-Year-Old Motorcyclist, the Mass Disparity Between a 5,000-Pound SUV and an Unprotected Rider Causing Life-Threatening Injuries Transferred to a Lubbock Trauma Center, Attorney911 Pursues the Dram Shop That Overserved a Habitual DWI Offender and the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer, We Image the Jeep’s EDR Before Impound Release and Pull Bar Surveillance Before the Overwrite Erases It, Texas Gross-Negligence and Exemplary-Damages Doctrine for Repeat DWI Hit-and-Run, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Drunk Driver With Three Prior DWI Convictions Ran a Red Light in Odessa — and a Motorcyclist Is Fighting for His Life in Lubbock If you are reading this from a hospital hallway in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Odessa where the phone just rang with news no family is ready to hear, we want you to understand one thing before anything else: what happened to your motorcyclist at 2:04 a.m. on August 9 at University Boulevard and Andrews Highway was not an accident. It was a choice — a choice made by a man who had already been convicted of driving drunk three times before, who got behind the wheel of a silver Jeep Commander again, who ran a red light in the commercial heart of Odessa, and who then ran away on foot while a 35-year-old man lay in the street with life-threatening injuries. The Odessa Police Department arrested him. He admitted to hitting the motorcycle. Officers determined he was drunk. They found nearly five ounces of marijuana in his possession. He was charged with Intoxication Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury, Collision Involving Personal Injury, Possession of Marijuana, and Evading Arrest. He is in the Ector County Law Enforcement Center. That is the criminal case — and it matters — but the criminal case will not pay for the care your motorcyclist needs. It will not cover the helicopter or ambulance ride to Lubbock, the trauma surgery, the ICU stay, the rehabilitation, the lost wages,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Train-Truck Collision in Pecos, Texas: Two Union Pacific Employees Dead After a Heavy-Haul Tractor-Trailer Stopped on Active Tracks — Attorney911 Pursues the Carrier and Cargo-Securement Entity Behind the 68-MPH Derailment That Launched Equipment Into an Occupied Building, We Pull the EDR Data, ELD Records and Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, FELA Claims and FMCSA Grade-Crossing Rules Under 49 CFR 392.10, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo Excellent 8.2 Rating, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos, Texas Train-Truck Collision: What Happened and What Your Family Needs to Know If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on a Union Pacific railroad crew in West Texas and did not come home — or because you were inside a building in downtown Pecos when heavy equipment came through the wall — you are in a moment that no one prepared you for. Two railroad employees were killed. A train derailed. A tractor-trailer sat on the tracks for approximately one minute before the collision, and the National Transportation Safety Board is trying to determine why. You have probably already heard from someone representing a railroad interest or an insurance company. You may have been asked to give a statement. You may have been told that workers’ compensation or railroad death benefits are your only option. They are not. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial-vehicle and wrongful-death cases in Texas. This page is written for you: the family of a killed railroad employee, the person who was inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the collision sent heavy equipment through the structure, or the friend who is trying to help someone who cannot help themselves right now. Everything here is specific to what happened on December 18, 2024, at a grade crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas — and to the legal rights that exist because of the unique way this collision unfolded. Why Was a Tractor-Trailer Stopped…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way Driver Killed 3 and Injured 37 Andrews Band Students in a Near-Head-On Interstate 20 Collision Near Big Spring, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Motorcoach Mass-Casualty Case, We Pursue Ford Motor Company on F-350 Fuel-System Integrity and Post-Crash Fire, the Motorcoach Manufacturer on Crashworthiness for a 2005 Model Predating the Federal Seatbelt Rule, and the School District and Highway Agency Under Texas Tort Claims Act Notice Deadlines That May Already Be Running, We Secure the EDR Black-Box Data, the NTSB Factual Report and the 16-Year Fleet Vehicle’s Maintenance Records Before Evidence Is Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases Involving Minors, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ for Injury Victims, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Claims Govern the Three Deaths — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Andrews Band Bus Crash on Interstate 20 Near Big Spring: What Families Need to Know If your child was on the Andrews High School band bus on November 19, 2021, you already know the worst day of your family’s life. You know the phone call. You know the drive to the hospital. You know the moment you saw your son or daughter in a bed they should never have been in, on a Tuesday afternoon when they should have been playing music at a football game. What you may not know is that the legal clock on your family’s rights started ticking that same day — and some of those clocks may have already stopped. We are writing this because we have seen what happens when families in crisis trust the system to do right by them. The school district’s insurer is professional and patient. The wrong-way driver’s estate has an auto policy that someone is already calculating down to the penny. The motorcoach manufacturer is a corporation with lawyers who have defended these exact crashes before. None of them called you. None of them told you about the Texas Tort Claims Act notice deadline that ran out approximately six months after the crash. None of them told you that the National Transportation Safety Board’s conclusion about what happened will never be allowed inside a courtroom. None of them mentioned that the 2005 motorcoach carrying your child likely had no passenger seatbelts — and that the manufacturer may answer…

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Jul 16, 2026

NTSB-Confirmed Wrong-Way Truck Crash on I-20 at Exit 179 in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas — A Commercial Truck Passed Seven Signs Before a Fiery Collision With an Andrews ISD School Bus Carrying Andrews High School Band Members, No Intoxication, No Phone Use, No Determined Cause: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Pursue the Carrier and Operating Entity Under 49 CFR 390-399, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Commercial-Truck Cases, We Pull the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, Truck-Crash Recovery ($2.5M+) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Gross-Negligence Exemplary Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring, Texas: The NTSB Report on the 2021 Andrews ISD Bus Crash on I-20 — What It Means for Victims and Families If you are reading this, someone you love was on that bus. Or you are the one who survived it. You may have seen the National Transportation Safety Board’s report — the one that says a commercial truck drove the wrong way down Interstate 20 past seven traffic signs, that the driver was not drunk and was not on the phone, and that the government’s top crash investigators could not figure out why. You may be wondering what that report means for your family. You may be wondering whether it is too late to do anything about it. This page is here to answer those questions — all of them — in plain language, from a trial team that has spent decades inside the machinery of commercial trucking litigation. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial-vehicle, catastrophic-injury, and wrongful-death cases in Texas. We are not writing this page as the lawyers on this specific crash — we are writing it as the resource you need right now, at the kitchen table at 2 a.m., when the questions will not stop and the answers have not come. What we can tell you up front: the NTSB report is the most powerful liability document a family in your position could ask for. It establishes, through a federal investigation, that a truck drove the wrong way on…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way I-20 Head-On Crash Near Big Spring, Howard County, Texas: Andrews ISD Band Bus Fatalities & Critical Student Airlifts — Attorney911 Pursues Ford Motor Company on F-350 Crashworthiness and the Charter Bus Carrier Under FMCSA Passenger-Carrier Rules, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the F-350 EDR Black-Box Data and Bus Telematics Before the Overwrite, Toxicology and Cell-Phone Records on a Preservation Clock, the Permian Basin Oilfield-Employer Coverage Stack if the F-350 Was a Commercial Service Vehicle, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Multi-Victim Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $5M+ in TBI Settlements, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative-Fault Doctrine, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring I-20 Wrong-Way Crash: When a Band Bus Meets a Wrong-Way Truck on a West Texas Interstate The phone call nobody expects comes on a Friday evening in November. Your child was on a bus. There was a crash on I-20. You do not know how bad yet — you just know to drive. For the families of the Andrews High School marching band, November 19, 2021, started as a trip to a playoff game in Sweetwater and ended with three people dead, two students flown by helicopter to a trauma center a hundred miles away, and thirteen more children treated at the hospital in Big Spring. If you are reading this because someone you love was on that road, on that bus, or on any highway where a wrong-way driver met a vehicle full of children, this page is written for you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in Texas 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 — and now sits on your side of the table, in English or in Spanish. We are writing this page as a resource for anyone who needs to understand what happens after a wrong-way crash on a West Texas interstate, what the law allows you to recover,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way I-20 Head-On Collision in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas Killed Andrews Band Director Darin Johns, Bus Driver Marc Boswell and Injured Student Jack Ortiz: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, to Fatal Wrong-Way Interstate Crashes, We Pursue the At-Fault Wrong-Way Driver’s Estate and Insurer and Investigate Dram Shop Liability When a Licensed Provider Served an Obviously Intoxicated Driver, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Claims, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data, Bus Camera Footage and Toxicology Records Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Negligence Per Se for Wrong-Way Driving on a Divided Highway, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total Including Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring, Howard County, Texas: When a Wrong-Way Driver on I-20 Kills — What the Families of the Andrews Band Bus Crash Need to Know You are reading this because someone you love was on that bus, or because someone you love is gone because of what happened on Interstate 20 that Friday night in November 2021. Maybe you are the parent of a student who came home with a leg that was broken in a head-on collision on a controlled-access interstate — a child who was traveling for a football playoff game and instead came home from a hospital. Maybe you are the spouse, the child, or the parent of the band director who didn’t come home at all. Or the retired math teacher who drove the bus because he loved the kids and the community, and who also didn’t come home. We are not going to pretend we know exactly what you are feeling. We are going to tell you what we know about the legal fight in front of you — clearly, honestly, and without padding — because the fight is real, the deadlines are already running, and the evidence is already disappearing. What happened on that stretch of I-20 through Big Spring is one of the clearest liability scenarios in motor vehicle litigation. A pickup truck traveling the wrong way on an interstate hit a school bus head-on. Three people died. Students were hurt. The community showed up — two other high school bands stepped in…

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Jul 16, 2026

Life-Threatening Motorcycle Crash at Thomas Street & Midkiff Road: When a Turning Kia SUV Fails to Yield on Midland’s Oil-Boom Arterials and Ejects a Rider, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pull the At-Fault Driver’s EDR Black-Box Data and Intersection Surveillance Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys It, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Uses Helmet Non-Use to Minimize Life-Threatening Injury Claims, Texas Comparative-Fault Law Puts Liability on the Driver Who Failed to Yield — the Helmet Is a Mitigation Question Not a Recovery Bar, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Motorcycle Crash at Thomas Street and Midkiff Road: What Happened and What Your Family Needs to Know Now If you are reading this from a waiting room at Midland Memorial Hospital, or you got the phone call nobody is ready for — the one about someone you love thrown from a motorcycle on North Midkiff Road — we need you to hear three things before anything else. First: the Midland Police Department has already determined that the Kia SUV failed to yield the right-of-way to the motorcycle. The at-fault driver violated your loved one’s right-of-way. This is the Kia driver’s fault for causing the collision, not the rider’s fault for being on the road. Second: the fact that the motorcycle operator was not wearing a helmet does not erase the case. We will explain exactly why below — but Texas law is specific about what helmet non-use does and does not do to a personal injury claim, and the short version is this: it does not bar recovery, it does not prove the rider caused the crash, and the defense has to prove a helmet would have prevented each specific injury it wants to argue about. The crash was caused by a turning vehicle that pulled into the path of a through-traffic motorcycle. That is the case. Third: the evidence that locks in liability is on a clock measured in days, not months. The Kia’s black-box data, the surveillance cameras at businesses near the Thomas Street and Midkiff Road…

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Jul 16, 2026

Patricia Busso, 52, Killed in FM 1788 Rollover Crash in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Wrongful Death Attorneys Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Commercial Operator, and the Manufacturer Behind Rollover Roof Crush When a Heavy-Duty Chassis Cab Like the Ram 5500 Crosses the FMCSA 10,001-Pound Commercial Threshold in the Permian Basin, 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 Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell Records Before the Overwrite, Under Texas Wrongful Death Law Surviving Families May Pursue Uncapped Damages, 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

Andrews County FM 1788 Rollover Crash — Wrongful Death Rights for Surviving Families If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on FM 1788, you already know the hardest part. The road that runs through your part of the Permian Basin took someone who was just driving — a 52-year-old woman from Andrews, heading south on a Thursday morning, who never made it home. What follows is about what Texas law allows a surviving family to do about that, how fast the proof of what happened is disappearing, and why the distance between accountability and silence is measured in days, not years. Here is what the public record shows. A northbound 2024 Ram 5500 turned left across the southbound lanes of FM 1788 and collided with a 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Jeep rolled over. Its driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The Texas Department of Public Safety has preliminarily determined that the driver of the Ram failed to yield the right of way. The investigation is ongoing. The Ram being driving by [the at-fault driver] failed to yield the right of way, turning left and hit the Jeep… causing it to rollover. — Texas Department of Public Safety, preliminary crash findings That preliminary finding is the foundation of everything that follows. But it is the beginning of the fight, not the end of it. The evidence that confirms what DPS found — and that potentially reveals something worse: a distracted driver, a fatigued oilfield worker…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, Where a Left-Turning Honda Civic Failed to Yield and the Driver Fled, Leaving a Seriously Injured Rider Airlifted to a Level I Trauma Center 150 Miles Away — Attorney911 Pursues the Fleeing Driver, the Vehicle Owner and the Insurers Behind Them on the Permian Basin’s High-Traffic Arterials, We Pull the Intersection CCTV, the Civic’s EDR Black-Box Data and the Cell Records That Expose Distracted Driving and the Cover-Up Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Gross-Negligence and Punitive Damages When Flight Shows Conscious Disregard, UM/UIM Recovery When the At-Fault Driver’s Limits Fall Short, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on Andrews Highway: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Odessa where a chair is empty that should not be empty, we need you to hear something first: what happened to your rider was not an accident. It was a choice — a choice to turn left across a motorcycle that had the right of way, and then a second choice, even worse, to leave a human being broken on the pavement and drive away. On the night of March 14, 2026, at 8:49 PM, a motorcyclist riding a black Harley-Davidson northbound on Andrews Highway was struck at the intersection of University Boulevard by a blue Honda Civic traveling southbound. The Civic’s driver turned left into the motorcycle’s path — the single most common and most deadly collision pattern in motorcycle safety research, known across the field by its acronym: SMIDSY, “Sorry, Mate, I Didn’t See You.” The rider was rushed to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa with serious injuries, then airlifted to a Level I trauma center in Lubbock, roughly 150 miles northeast. That flight — the decision to put your rider in a helicopter and send them across the Permian Basin to a higher-level trauma center — tells you everything about how serious these injuries are before any doctor says a word. Odessa Police have arrested the at-fault driver on a felony charge of Collision Involving…

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