Big Spring, Texas

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…

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.,…

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…

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…

Wrong-Way I-20 Head-On Crash & School Bus Wrongful Death Near Big Spring, Howard County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor Where F-350 Pickups Are Often Oilfield Service Vehicles, We Pursue Ford Motor Company on F-350 Crashworthiness and Fuel-System Integrity After the Post-Crash Fire, the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, and Any Commercial Employer Behind the Wheel, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data Before Fire Damage Destroys It and School Bus Camera Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, 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: Three Dead, Fourteen Injured When Ford F-350 Hits Andrews ISD Band Bus Head-On If you are reading this because someone you love was on that bus — or because you are living through something like it right now, on a different highway, on a different night — you are in a place where the world has stopped making sense. A child left for a football game. A band trip. A Friday night in West Texas that should have ended with instruments unloaded in a school parking lot. Instead it ended with helicopters, a fire on the interstate, and a phone call no parent is built to receive. We need to tell you something straight, before anything else: the legal deadlines for the November 2021 crash on I-20 near Big Spring have passed. The two-year window to file most claims has closed. But the law that governed that crash — the rights it created, the evidence it required, the traps it set for families who did not know the rules — is the same law that governs the next crash. And the next one is always coming. That is why this page exists: not to reopen…

Wrong-Way Vehicle Collision With Andrews High School Charter Bus on I-20 in Big Spring, Texas — Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor Where Oil-Field Traffic Mixes With School Transportation, We Pursue the At-Fault Wrong-Way Driver and the FMCSA-Regulated Charter Carrier Owing a Heightened Common-Carrier Duty to Student Passengers Under 49 CFR 390-399, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Secure the DPS Crash Report, EDR Black-Box Data and Dashcam Footage Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, 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, Howard County, Texas: When a Wrong-Way Driver Met a School Charter Bus on I-20 — and Three People Never Came Home If you are reading this because someone you love was on that bus, or because you lost someone on that service road, or because you are living through a similar crash right now somewhere else in West Texas — we want you to know something before anything else. The law has tools for this. The questions flooding your mind at 2 a.m. — who is responsible, is there insurance, was the bus company qualified to carry children, what happened to the evidence, is it too late — every one of those questions has an answer. We are going to give you all of them. On November 19, 2021, a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the Interstate 20 service road at mile marker 179 in Big Spring, Howard County, collided with an Andrews High School charter bus carrying members of the school’s marching band to a playoff football game. Texas DPS confirmed fatalities at the scene. Life-flight helicopters lifted from the roadway. Three people were killed. Students were aboard that bus. The playoff game was postponed. And…