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Jul 16, 2026

Nine Killed When an Unlicensed 13-Year-Old Driver Crossed the Center Line and Struck a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van Head-On Near Andrews, Northwest of Midland — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to West Texas Wrongful-Death Litigation, We Pursue Negligent-Entrustment Claims Against Every Adult Who Handed the Keys to a Child Legally Ineligible to Drive, We Investigate the Post-Collision Fire for Fuel-System Design and Product-Liability Exposure, We Secure the NTSB Findings and EDR Black-Box Data Before the Evidence Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Nine Catastrophic Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With No Statutory Cap on Non-Economic Damages in Motor-Vehicle Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Nine Lives Lost on a Dark Two-Lane Road: The Andrews County Van Collision and What the Law Says About It If you found this page, someone you love may be gone — or fighting to survive — after a catastrophic collision on a rural highway in the Permian Basin. You may be sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning, staring at a phone that stopped ringing, trying to understand how a road your family traveled a hundred times took everything in one second. You may have heard that nine people died and that a child was driving the other vehicle, and you are trying to make sense of what that means for your family’s future. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what the law allows, and what to do next — because the first thing the insurance company wants is for you to not understand any of it. On the evening of March 15, 2022, a Dodge pickup truck traveling on a two-lane rural road in Andrews County, Texas — about nine miles from the town of Andrews, in the heart of the Permian Basin oil field corridor — crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a Ford passenger van head-on. The van was carrying members of a university’s men’s and women’s golf teams, returning from a tournament at Midland College. Both vehicles caught fire and burned. Seven people in the van were killed — a 26-year-old coach and six students…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Rollover Ejection on West Murphy Street: 16-Year-Old Odessa Passenger Killed When a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado Rolled Over Multiple Times After the Driver Failed to Maintain a Single Lane — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Guardian Who Entrusted a Pickup to a Teen, the Vehicle Manufacturer Behind the Roof Crush, Door Latch and Restraint Failure That Allowed Ejection, We Preserve the Silverado and Extract EDR Black-Box Data Before the Vehicle Is Salvaged, FMVSS 206 Door-Latch and 216 Roof-Crush Standards the 2003 Model Predates, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine and the 51% Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Son Was Ejected From a Pickup Truck on a Tuesday Afternoon in Odessa — Here Is What the Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and What You Must Do Before It Disappears If you are reading this, your son is gone. A 2003 Chevrolet Silverado was traveling westbound on West Murphy Street at five o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon in March, and the driver — also sixteen, also from Odessa — failed to stay in a single lane, veered onto the south shoulder, and the truck rolled over, and your boy was thrown from it, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. You are sitting somewhere in Odessa right now — a kitchen table, a living room that is too quiet, a bedroom you have not been able to walk into — and you are trying to understand how a Tuesday turned into the worst day of your life. We are going to tell you the truth about what happened, what the law allows you to do about it, and what is already being done to make this harder than it has to be. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death claims and catastrophic car accident cases across Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and was a journalist before he was a lawyer, which means he learned early that the first version of a story is almost never the whole story. Lupe Peña spent years inside a…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run Wrongful Death on University Boulevard in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Kristofer and Jessica Goodrum Killed When a Chevrolet Silverado Turned Into Their Motorcycle and the Driver Fled After Seeing Them Pinned Beneath the Truck, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer, the Employer if the Silverado Was a Work Vehicle, the Bar That May Have Over-Served the Driver, and the Automaker Behind the Chevrolet, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Silverado’s EDR Data, Business CCTV Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Cell Records and the Beer Bottle Recovered From the Truck, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Gross-Negligence Exemplary Damages for a Driver Who Fled After Seeing His Victims Pinned, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on University Boulevard in Odessa: What the Evidence Already Shows You are reading this because someone you love is gone. Two people — a husband and wife, 40 and 38 years old, from Midland — were killed on the night of April 2 at the intersection of W University Boulevard and Sycamore Drive in Odessa. They were on a motorcycle. A Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck turned in front of them. The impact pinned both of them beneath the truck. The driver got out, saw what he had done, and ran. We are not going to pretend that words on a screen can fix what happened. They cannot. What we can do — what this page exists to do — is give you the straight truth about what the law allows, what the evidence shows, what the insurance company is already doing, and what happens in the days and weeks ahead if you pick up the phone. You are reading this at a terrible hour. We know. We are here at every hour — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with live staff, not an answering service. Here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened on University Boulevard was not an accident. It was a series of choices. A driver chose to turn into the path of a motorcycle. That driver chose to leave two human beings pinned beneath his truck. And when investigators searched that truck, they found a nearly empty…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way Head-On Collision on SH 302 in Ector County, Texas Kills Sebastian Trevino, 25, and Juan Guerrero, 26 — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Fatal Permian Basin Highway Crashes, We Pursue the Wrong-Way Driver, the Bar That May Have Overserved Them at 4:45 AM, Ford Motor Company, and Every Liable Party, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Claims, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data and Blood Toxicology Before Bar Surveillance Overwrites, a Pickup-vs-Compact-Sedan Mass Ratio at Highway Closing Speed That Predicts Polytrauma for Surviving Occupants Including the 16-Year-Old, Texas Negligence-Per-Se for Wrong-Way Driving, Dram-Shop Liability, and the Wrongful-Death Act, 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 Wrong-Way Crash on SH 302: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on State Highway 302 in the pre-dawn darkness of December 7, 2025. Maybe you got the call from Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. Maybe you got a call from someone who recognized the name on the DPS report. Maybe you are sitting in a waiting room right now, or sitting at a kitchen table that has too many empty chairs already. We are writing this for you — one person, in crisis, trying to understand what happened and what to do next. Here is what the Texas Department of Public Safety has reported: at approximately 4:45 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, a 2014 Ford F-150 was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of SH 302 near the FM 181 intersection in Ector County. A 2017 Hyundai Elantra was traveling eastbound. The two vehicles collided head-on. Two passengers in the Hyundai — two young men from Odessa, 25 and 26 years old — were pronounced dead at the scene. Three people were transported to Medical Center Hospital, including the driver and a passenger from the Ford and the driver of the Hyundai. One of the injured was a 16-year-old. DPS is still investigating. DPS said a 2014 Ford F-150 was on the wrong side of the road, traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of SH 302. We handle car accident cases across Texas, and we have…

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Jul 16, 2026

18-Wheeler Barrels Into a DPS Trooper’s Accident Scene on a Foggy Highway Near Lubbock, Attorney911 Pursues the Commercial Carrier Behind the 80,000-Pound Semi That Crushed an F-150 Cab on Video, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, 49 CFR 392.14 Extreme-Caution-in-Fog Duty and Texas Move Over/Slow Down Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on That Foggy West Texas Highway — and Why It Matters to Your Case You were working the scene. That is what troopers do — they stand on the shoulder of a west Texas highway in the fog and help clear the wreck in front of them. The flashing lights were on. The scene was marked. You were doing your job, and then an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer came out of the fog and turned a routine accident scene into a fight for survival. The footage shows what words cannot: the truck barreling into the cars, the trailer sliding onto its side, the cab of that Ford F-150 being crushed, and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper running for his life. Both the trooper and the person in that pickup were taken to the hospital. They are expected to survive. But “expected to survive” is a hospital phrase, not a measure of what comes next — the surgeries, the missed work, the pain that does not leave when the stitches come out, and the fact that an 18-wheeler drove through a marked emergency scene in the fog as if the rules written to stop exactly this did not exist. If you are reading this because you were at that scene — or because someone you love was — you need to hear three things right now. First: the video captured the truck’s failure with unusual clarity, and that footage is the single most powerful piece of liability evidence in…

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Jul 16, 2026

Construction Zone Wrongful Death on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Patrick Daniel Purdon, 24, Struck and Killed by a Hit-and-Run Tractor-Trailer in an Active Work Zone: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pursue the Motor Carriers and the Contractor Shells Behind the Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, FMCSA Construction-Zone Caution Requirements Under 49 CFR 392.14, Texas Wrongful-Death and Gross-Negligence Doctrine When a Driver Flees the Scene, 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

Reeves County I-20 Tractor-Trailer Hit-and-Run: A Construction Worker Killed in the Work Zone He Was Protecting The call came and your world stopped. A young man from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico — 24 years old, working a construction job on Interstate 20 in Reeves County — was doing his duty inside an active work zone when a tractor-trailer came through and took his life. The truck did not stop. It reentered the westbound lane and kept driving until a construction supervisor flagged it down. Your loved one was pronounced dead at the scene. If you are reading this, you are probably his family. You are probably reading at an hour when most people sleep, because sleep left somewhere around the second night, and what replaced it is questions. Who is responsible. What evidence still exists. What the trucking company is already doing. What your family’s rights actually are while the hours pass. This page exists to answer those questions — not with platitudes, but with the specific law, the specific evidence clocks, and the specific steps that decide whether accountability happens or slips away. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial truck crash cases and wrongful death claims across Texas. What follows is what we would want you to know if you called us tonight — the same information, whether you hire us or someone else, because the most important thing is that the evidence survives and your family’s rights are protected while it still…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Train Derailment in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed When Freight Train Collided With Tractor-Trailer at Grade Crossing, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to FELA Wrongful-Death Claims and Third-Party Trucking Liability, We Pursue the Motor Carrier Behind the Grade-Crossing Collision and Hold the Railroad Under the Federal Employer’s Liability Act’s Slightest-Negligence Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Black-Box Data, Crossing Signal Logs and Truck ELD Records Before the Overwrite, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Modified Comparative Fault, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Railroad Workers Dead, Three Injured — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on a Union Pacific freight train on December 18, 2024, and did not come home — or because you were inside a building in Pecos when a derailed train came through the wall — you are in a place no one prepares you for. The first thing you need to hear is simple: what happened to your family is not just a tragedy. It is a legal event with a clock on it, and the clock is already running against you. Two Union Pacific employees were killed when their freight train collided with a tractor-trailer at a railway crossing in Pecos, Texas, just before 5 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in December. The train derailed. Three people were hurt — some of them inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the derailed train struck it with enough force that officials warned no one should enter until a structural engineer inspected the damage. The train was carrying hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries and air bags. None were released, and the leaked diesel fuel was contained. The National Transportation Safety Board deployed an investigative team. Cleanup was underway. The scene is being cleaned up. The evidence is being touched, moved, and cleared. The trucking company’s electronic data — the data that would show how fast that tractor-trailer was moving, whether the…

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Jul 16, 2026

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 insurance realities, and the medical aftermath are the same regardless of the specific date or the specific highway. We want to be honest with you about one thing before we go further: the specific December 2016 collision on this page is one whose Texas statute of limitations has long since…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal 18-Wheeler Crash at FM 866 & W. University in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — Jorge Zapata, 27, Killed in Pre-Dawn Chain-Reaction Collision: Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Oilfield Trucking Corridor, We Pursue the Carriers and Contractor Shells Behind 80,000-Pound Rigs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, FMCSA Post-Accident Drug Testing Mandated After Fatal Commercial Crashes Under 49 CFR 390-399, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Claims with Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, Millions Recovered in Trucking Wrongful-Death Cases Including $2.5M+ in a Truck Crash — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Fatal 18-Wheeler Crash on FM 866 in Odessa: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Dodge on FM 866 on the morning of January 12, 2026, we want you to hear three things before anything else. First: what happened to Jorge Zapata and to the passenger who was taken from that scene to the hospital is not a statistic, and it is not something you have to figure out alone. Second: the truck that caused this collision is governed by a completely different set of federal laws than a regular car crash, and those laws come with evidence that is disappearing right now, on a clock written into the regulations themselves. Third: there are specific things you should do and specific things you should refuse to do in the hours and days ahead, and the difference between doing them and not doing them can change everything. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas. We are writing this page because the crash at FM 866 and W. University in Ector County deserves more than a news headline. It deserves a full explanation of what happened, what the law says about it, what the evidence looks like, what the insurance company is already doing, and what your family’s rights actually are under Texas law. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Contacting us is…

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Jul 16, 2026

Pecos Train-Truck Collision & Wrongful Death Attorneys: 2 Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Heavy-Equipment Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the Tracks at 68 MPH | Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Reeves County, We Pursue the Trucking Company, the Cargo-Securement Entity and Every Carrier Behind the Haul, We Pull the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Grade-Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, FMCSA Crossing Rules and FELA Railroad-Employee Claims, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Pecos Train-Truck Collision: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that Union Pacific train, or inside that building in Pecos when a tractor-trailer stopped on the tracks and the world came apart. You are sitting with a grief that has not yet found its shape, or with a pain in your body you are trying to tell yourself is nothing, while the insurance company’s first call is already coming. We are writing this page to you — not to explain the news, which you already know, but to tell you what the news does not say: what your rights actually are, what the companies are already doing to protect themselves, and what is disappearing right now that your family will never get back if someone does not act to freeze it. A tractor-trailer hauling heavy equipment came to a stop on active Union Pacific railroad tracks at a crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, in December 2024. It stayed there for approximately one minute. A Union Pacific train traveling about 68 miles per hour struck it after the crew applied emergency brakes. The collision derailed the train. The heavy equipment the truck was carrying was propelled into the air and into the nearby Pecos Chamber of Commerce building. Two Union Pacific employees were killed. Three people inside the building were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board recovered a data recorder and is investigating why the truck…

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