Fatal Head-On Crash on FM 1788 at Mile Marker 312 Near Andrews, Andrews County, Texas: Charles Troxell Survived When an Oncoming Driver Crossed Into His Lane on an Unsafe Pass — Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Auto Liability Coverage, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Claims Are Valued and Denied, We Image Both Vehicle EDRs Before Salvage and Pull the DPS Crash Reconstruction Report, Texas’s 51% Comparative Fault Bar Likely Precludes the At-Fault Driver’s Family From Wrongful-Death Recovery While the Innocent Victim’s Claim Against the Estate Survives, Head-On Closing Speeds on Two-Lane FM Roads Can Exceed 130 MPH and Even Initially Minor Injuries Can Escalate, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
A Head-On Crash on FM 1788 Near Andrews: What It Means and What Happens Next You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to be awake. Maybe you are sitting in a kitchen in Andrews, or Midland, or somewhere along the Permian Basin corridor, and a Texas Highway Patrol trooper has already come to your door or called your phone to tell you something that has rearranged the rest of your life. Maybe you are the family of the driver who was going north on FM 1788 on a Friday afternoon, doing nothing wrong, when a southbound vehicle crossed into your lane to pass and hit you head-on. Maybe you are the family of the young man who did not come home. Either way, the same road — the same two-lane farm-to-market stretch at mile marker 312 — just became the dividing line between before and after. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle car accident, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases across Texas, and we are writing this for the one person who needs it tonight: the one who just learned what a head-on collision on a West Texas two-lane road does to…