Odessa, Texas

Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Failure-to-Yield Collision on SH 302 Near Yukon Avenue in Odessa, Ector County, Texas Claims Kimberly Kay Kennedy, 49, of San Angelo — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial-Vehicle Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Motor Carriers, the Freight Shippers, and National Corporations Like Endo International Behind the 80,000-Pound Combinations on These Highways, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Truck Collisions, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night Everything Changed on SH 302 — and What Happens Next If you are reading this, someone you love is not coming home. A woman from San Angelo — a daughter, a mother, a sister, a friend — was driving eastbound on SH 302 near Yukon Avenue in Odessa on a Thursday evening in late May when a semi-truck turned left across her path and she struck the trailer it was hauling. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Texas Highway Patrol is still investigating, and no further details have been released. You are probably sitting at a kitchen table or in a parked car, scrolling through your phone at an hour when the rest of the world is asleep, trying to understand what just happened to your family and what you are supposed to do now. The calls from the insurance company may have already started. Someone with a friendly voice may have already asked you to “just tell us what happened” on a recorded line. You may have been told the trucking company is “cooperating fully” and that you should “take your time” before talking to a lawyer. Here is the first thing you need to hear:…

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Jul 17, 2026

E. Loop 338 and 87th St. 18-Wheeler Crash in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Carriers and Fleets Behind Permian Basin Commercial Rigs, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recoveries, 80,000-Pound Tractor-Trailers Whose Stopping-Distance Math Turns a Ruptured Diesel Tank Into a Forensic Impact Record, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Hours-of-Service Logs Before the Overwrite, 49 CFR 390-399 Federal Motor Carrier Financial-Responsibility Minimums, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Texas Comparative-Negligence and Wrongful-Death Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on Loop 338 — and What the Trucking Company Is Already Doing About It You are reading this because an 18-wheeler crashed on E. Loop 338 at 87th St. in Odessa, and diesel fuel spilled across both southbound lanes hard enough to shut the road down for hours. Maybe you were in a vehicle nearby. Maybe someone you love was in the path of that truck. Maybe you watched the scene from a distance while the Odessa Police set up flares and the fire department contained the fuel. Whatever brought you here, you are in the hours or days after a commercial-truck crash in the heart of the Permian Basin — and the machinery that will decide whether you are compensated or dismissed is already running. Here is what we want you to understand before anything else: the trucking company’s response team was activated within hours of that crash. Not your side. Theirs. A carrier’s insurance adjuster, their claims representative, sometimes their own investigator — those people are trained to arrive at the scene, photograph the vehicles, talk to witnesses, and begin building the defense before the diesel is even cleaned up. They are not evil. They are…

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Jul 17, 2026

Semi-Truck Crash & Diesel Spill at E. Loop 338 and 87th St. in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Commercial Carriers Behind Permian Basin Oilfield Freight, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ELD Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, 80,000-Pound Rigs That Need Hundreds of Feet to Stop on West Texas Loop Roads, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies Trucking Cases, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations Under 49 CFR 390-399, Texas Proportionate-Responsibility Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Semi-Truck Crash on Loop 338 — What the Diesel Spill Tells Us, What Texas Law Says, and What Is Already Disappearing If you are reading this, you or someone you love was on Loop 338 near 87th Street in Odessa when a semi-truck crashed and spilled diesel fuel across the southbound lanes. The Odessa Police Department is investigating. Both southbound lanes are shut down for what authorities expect to be hours. And while the road closure is the headline, what is happening behind the cleanup trucks matters more to your case than anything in the news. The diesel on the pavement is evidence. It tells a story about the force that ruptured the tank, the point of impact, and whether the truck was hauling fuel as cargo or bled its own saddle tanks in the collision. That evidence is being washed away right now, as you read this. The skid marks are being scrubbed. The gouge marks in the asphalt are being paved over. The debris field that a reconstruction engineer would read like a fingerprint is being shoveled into a dumpster. Every minute the cleanup runs is a minute the physical record of what happened is being erased.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Gas Pump Tampering & Premises Liability Near Odessa, Texas 42nd Street: Attorney911 Holds the Station Operator and Fuel Brand When a Lodged Nail or Screw Blocks the Pump Shutoff and Leaves Your Transaction Active After You Drive Away, We Pull the Pump-Island CCTV and Transaction Logs Before the 30-Day Overwrite Purges Them, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Premises Cases, Texas Imposes a Duty on Commercial Operators to Inspect Pump Equipment for Business Invitees, NIST Handbook 44 Governs the Shutoff Mechanism That Failed, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Texas Gas Pump Tampering: Your Legal Rights When a Gas Station’s Equipment Fails You You pulled up to a pump on 42nd Street, filled your tank, paid with your card, and drove off thinking the transaction was done. It was not. Someone had jammed a nail or a screw into the nozzle holder — the cradle where the pump handle sits when you put it back — and that small piece of metal prevented the pump’s automatic shutoff from engaging when you hung up the nozzle. Your transaction stayed live. The next person who pulled up to that pump picked up the handle, pumped their fuel, and walked away while the charges kept running on your card. If you are reading this, you probably found a charge on your bank or credit card statement that you did not make. You probably called your card issuer. You may have filed a police report. And you are probably wondering whether the gas station owes you anything for leaving equipment in a condition that let a stranger steal from you — or whether what happened is just bad luck and a criminal’s fault. We are going to tell you everything we know…

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Jul 16, 2026

Rosa Emma Mendoza Robles, 81, Killed When a Semi-Truck T-Boned Her Vehicle on FM 866 in Odessa — Attorney911 Pursues the Commercial Carriers Behind the Permian Basin Oilfield Rigs That Run These Two-Lane Farm-to-Market Roads, the 80,000-Pound Mass Disparity That Turns a Passenger-Side Impact Into a Fatal Event, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite and Pull the DPS CR-3 to Identify the Carrier, 49 CFR 390-399 Governs These Operations, the $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar Where a DPS Preliminary Finding Is Not a Jury Verdict — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Texas Semi-Truck Fatal Crash on FM 866 — What the Family Needs to Know Right Now You are reading this because someone you love was killed on FM 866. Maybe it was your mother. Maybe your grandmother. You saw the news headline, and the first thing that hit you — before the grief even settled — was the phrase “failed to yield.” That phrase is the Texas Department of Public Safety’s preliminary finding, released to the press within hours of the crash, before the truck’s black box was downloaded, before the dashcam footage was reviewed, before a single accident reconstructionist measured a skid mark. And that phrase is the reason the trucking company’s insurance adjuster is already building their defense around your mother’s supposed fault — while the evidence that could tell the real story is disappearing, hour by hour, from the truck that hit her. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial truck crash and wrongful death cases across Texas, and we are writing this page for one person: the family member who just lost someone to a semi-truck on a Permian Basin farm-to-market road and does not yet know what rights they…

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Jul 16, 2026

Alex Bingham, 25, Killed by an Intoxicated Hit-and-Run Driver in Front of His Odessa Home: Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver, the Bar or Restaurant That Served an Underage Drunk Driver Under Texas Dram Shop Law, the Vehicle Owner for Negligent Entrustment, and the Insurers Behind Them — the Criminal Intoxication Manslaughter Conviction Establishes Negligence Per Se for the Civil Wrongful Death and Survival Action, 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 Secure the BAC Toxicology, Windshield Impact Evidence,

When a Drunk Driver Kills Your Loved One and Runs — The Criminal Sentence Is Not the End of the Story You sat in that courtroom in Odessa. You watched a jury decide how many years a person gets for driving drunk, hitting someone you love, and driving away. You heard the evidence — the windshield, the changed story, the medical examiner saying there was nothing anyone could do. You heard the sentence. And you are sitting with the fact that it does not feel like enough. We are not going to tell you it should. A ten-year sentence for taking a life — a life that was building a family, that was someone’s everything — is a real thing, and it is also not the whole thing. The criminal system punished the person who drove drunk and fled. It did not compensate the family he left behind. It did not identify the bar that served alcohol to someone who was not old enough to drink. It did not examine whether someone handed car keys to a teenager they should not have trusted with them. It did not open the insurance policies that may cover what happened. It did none…

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Jul 16, 2026

15-Year-Old Killed in Odessa, Texas ATV and Chevrolet Silverado Collision at West Burkett and South Almond When Seatbelt Failed in Rollover — Attorney911 Pursues General Motors, the Silverado’s Manufacturer, and the ATV Maker Whose Seatbelt Failed, We Seize and Preserve the Broken Seatbelt Assembly Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Texas Fatal Crashes: FM 1787 Tractor-Trailer Collision & ATV Seatbelt Failure — Your Legal Rights After Two Families Lost Everything This Week If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — or someone you love is lying in a hospital bed in Midland County with injuries that will reshape the rest of their life. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa at two in the morning, scrolling through your phone, trying to understand what happened on FM 1787 or at the intersection of West Burkett Street and South Almond Avenue. You may have already received a phone call from an insurance adjuster who sounded sympathetic and asked you to “just tell us what happened.” You may be wondering whether it is too early to call a lawyer, or whether you should wait for the DPS report to come back. We are going to answer every question you have right now. Not in generalities — in the specific, grounded reality of what happened on these two roads in the Permian Basin this week, and what Texas law actually says about your right to hold someone accountable. Two crashes. Two deaths. Two completely different legal…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on SH-302 in Odessa, Texas — Kennedy Kimberly Kay, 49, of San Angelo Killed When a Left-Turning 2004 Peterbilt Tractor-Trailer Failed to Yield at Yukon Road Per DPS Preliminary Findings: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Trucking Corridors, We Pursue the Carrier and Operator Behind the Rig, Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and ELD Logs Before the 8-Day Device Overwrite, Demand the Post-Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing That Federal Regulations Require When a Fatality Occurs, Investigate Maintenance and Braking on a 20-Year-Old Tractor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Trucking Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death Act With Modified Comparative Fault and No Statutory Damage Caps — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Semi-Truck Collision on SH-302 in Odessa, Texas: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Commercial Trucking Wrongful Death If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from the drive on SH-302. Maybe you got the call from a state trooper, or from a family member who heard it on the scanner, or from a hospital that could only confirm the worst. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table in San Angelo, 90 miles from where it happened, trying to understand how a Thursday evening drive turned into a death certificate. You are in the hardest hours a family goes through, and the last thing you should have to think about is evidence and insurance and legal deadlines — and yet those are the very things that decide whether the people responsible for this are ever held to account. Here is the first thing that matters: the Texas Department of Public Safety has already said, in its preliminary investigation, what happened on the night of May 28. A 2004 Peterbilt 379 semi-truck was heading west on SH-302, toward the intersection with Yukon Road. It turned left. It did not yield. And a 2024 Kia Sportage driving…

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Jul 16, 2026

DWI Wrongful Death on Odessa’s E 52nd Street: Bryan Contreras Dead at the Scene, Alexis Luna Dead at Medical Center Hospital After an Intoxicated Driver’s Tahoe Left the Roadway at 2:47 a.m. — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and the Bar That Overserved Under Texas Dram Shop Law, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the Blood-Alcohol Toxicology, the Police Crash Affidavit and the Event Data Recorder Before Evidence Degrades, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims With Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Civil Filing Deadline Does Not Wait for Criminal Sentencing — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa DWI Crash Killed Two 19-Year-Old Passengers — What the Probation Sentence Means for the Families’ Civil Rights If you found this page because someone you love was killed by a drunk driver in Odessa, and you just watched the criminal court hand down a sentence of probation, you are probably sitting with a question that no news article will answer for you: Is that really all? We are not going to pretend it feels like enough. Ten years of community supervision, a $10,000 fine per count, and 120 days in the Ector County jail for killing two nineteen-year-old people is the kind of outcome that makes families feel like the justice system looked at their loss and decided it was manageable. We understand that feeling. We have sat with families in exactly this position, and we can tell you two things at once: the criminal sentence is one system, and the civil case is a completely separate one. The criminal court decides what the state does to the person who drove drunk. The civil court decides what the person who drove drunk — and anyone else who helped create the danger — owes the families whose lives were destroyed.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Alan Kevin Ferreyro, 23, Fatally Struck by an 18-Wheeler on I-20 Near Odessa, Ector County: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Commercial Truck Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Motor Carriers Behind 80,000-Pound Rigs Hauling on the Oilfield Logistics Corridor Where Nighttime Visibility Is a Documented Hazard, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite Cycle Purges It, FMCSA Regulations Under 49 CFR and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar the Defense Will Weaponize Against a Pedestrian in Dark Clothing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Matters — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal 18-Wheeler Pedestrian Accident on I-20 Near Odessa, Texas: What Families Need to Know If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on Interstate 20 near Odessa — struck by a commercial truck at night — you are in the worst hours of your life, and the machinery that will try to minimize your loss is already moving. We want you to know three things before anything else. First, the fact that an 18-wheeler was involved changes everything about your case, because commercial drivers and their carriers are held to a federal safety standard that ordinary drivers never face. Second, the fact that your loved one was in the roadway wearing dark clothing does not end your case — it is a comparative factor the defense will exploit, and we have answers for it. Third, the evidence that decides whether this was an accident or a violation — the truck’s black box, the driver’s hours-of-service logs, his cell phone records, his post-crash toxicology — is on a clock, and that clock is not kind to families who wait. This page is for anyone whose family has been torn open by a commercial truck on the I-20 corridor…

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