Odessa, Texas

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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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Peterbilt Semi-Truck Collision Claims the Life of Jamie Lynn Flores, 38, at FM 866 and University Boulevard in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Attorney911 Wrongful Death & Commercial Truck Accident Attorneys Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Freight Corridors — We Pursue the Motor Carriers Behind the 2025 Peterbilt and the Contractor Shells They Operate Through, We Extract the ECM Black-Box Data, ELD Hours-of-Service Logs and Post-Accident Drug-Test Results Before the Overwrite Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Texas Comparative Negligence and the 51% Bar: Even When the Preliminary Report Cites Failure to Yield, the FMCSA Heightened Duty of Commercial Drivers Approaching Known Intersections Can Shift the Fault Apportionment — the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night of November 19 — What Happened at FM 866 and University Boulevard If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home on November 19, 2025. You may have gotten the call from Medical Center Hospital, or from a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper whose voice you will never forget. You may have already read the preliminary DPS report that says the word “failed to yield” — and you may be wondering whether that single phrase means no one is accountable for the person who is gone. We are going to tell you something that matters right now, before anything else: that preliminary finding is a starting point, not a verdict. And the evidence that could tell a different story — the commercial truck’s onboard computer, its driver’s logs, its cameras, its braking data — is on a clock. That clock is running right now, and the records the law forces the trucking company to keep are the same records the law permits it to destroy. A 38-year-old woman was killed at the intersection of FM 866 and West University Boulevard in Ector County. She was wearing her seatbelt. She was taken to Medical Center…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Chevrolet Silverado Rollover on West Murphy Street in Odessa, Ector County, March 25, 2025 — One 16-Year-Old Passenger Ejected and Killed, the 16-Year-Old Driver Transported to a Lubbock Level I Trauma Center: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Rollover and Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Household Policy, Negligent Entrustment by the Vehicle Owner and the Manufacturer’s Occupant-Retention Systems Under FMVSS 206 and 216, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Teen-Fatality Cases, We Preserve the Silverado’s EDR Black-Box Data, Door-Latch Assemblies and Roof Structure Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped, 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

Odessa, Ector County Rollover Crash: A 16-Year-Old Dead, Another Fighting for His Life in Lubbock If you are reading this at 2 a.m. from a kitchen table in Odessa — or from a waiting room at UMC in Lubbock, 150 miles from home — you already know the worst part. What you may not know is that the first report from the scene is almost never the whole story. Texas DPS wrote down what it could see in the hours after the truck rolled: a Chevrolet Silverado on West Murphy Street, two sixteen-year-old boys, no seatbelts, one ejected and gone, one taken by ambulance or helicopter to a trauma center far enough away that the drive itself tells you how bad the injuries are. That report is the beginning of the investigation, not the end of it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful-death cases and catastrophic car and truck crash cases in Texas. This page is written for one person: the parent, the sibling, the guardian who is sitting with a folder of hospital paperwork and a phone full of missed calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not. Everything here is…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way DWI Crash on Highway 191 Near Odessa: Third-Offense Drunk Driver Strikes Two DPS Troopers Head-On With a 9-Year-Old Child in the Vehicle — Attorney911 Pursues the Impaired Driver and the Licensed Establishment That Over-Served Him, 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 DWI Collision Claims, We Move to Preserve the Warrant-Obtained Blood Toxicology, the Dashcam and Bodycam Footage, and the Bar Surveillance Video Before It Overwrites, Texas Dram Shop Liability and Gross Negligence for Punitive Damages When a Repeat DWI Offender Drives the Wrong Way on a Divided Highway, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Wrong-Way DWI on Highway 191: What Happened to Two DPS Troopers and a Child — and What the Law Lets Victims Recover If you are reading this because someone you love was on State Highway 191 in the early hours of a Saturday morning — a trooper who went to work that shift and came home with injuries that changed everything, or a family member trying to understand how a 9-year-old child ended up running through the dark toward strangers in uniform because she was terrified of her own father — you are in the hardest part of this right now. The hospital is running tests. The criminal case is on the news. And somebody from an insurance company has already called you, sounding sympathetic, asking you to “just tell us what happened.” We are going to tell you what is actually true in Texas law, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what the other side is already doing — because the difference between a fair recovery and a fraction of one is measured in days, not months. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle Texas injury and wrongful-death cases, including drunk-driving…

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Jul 16, 2026

Andrews Highway Toddler Death & Wrongful Death Attorneys: A Child Survived Days After the 100th Street Collision in Odessa Before Passing — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and Any Commercial Carrier on This Permian Basin Corridor, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Child-Fatality Cases, We Pull the CR-3 Crash Report, EDR Black-Box Data and Intersection Surveillance Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases It, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Doctrine for the Child’s Conscious Pain and Suffering During Those Days, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Child Dies Days After an Odessa Car Crash — What Your Family Needs to Know If you are reading this because your own child was taken from you in a crash on Andrews Highway or anywhere in the Permian Basin, we want you to hear something first: your child’s death is not a news brief. It is not a statistic. It is the most devastating thing that can happen to a family, and the law recognizes it as exactly that. What happened on that Friday morning at the intersection of 100th Street and Andrews Highway in Odessa is a parent’s worst nightmare — a toddler was seriously injured in a collision and, despite surviving for days afterward, ultimately passed away. We are writing this page not because we represent this particular family — we do not — but because the questions that follow a child’s death on a Texas road are the same questions every grieving family in Odessa, Midland, Ector County, and across the Permian Basin will face. And the answers can change everything. Here is the first thing you need to know: the days your child lived after the collision matter. They matter because Texas law…

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Jul 16, 2026

High-Speed Red-Light Fatal Crash at Andrews Highway and East 42nd Street in Odessa, Texas: Attorney911 Fights for Critically Injured Passengers in Cases Like This, Pursuing the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Its Liability Insurer When the Driver Who Ran the Red Light Is Gone, Along With the Passenger’s Own UM/UIM Coverage That Most Families Do Not Know to Pursue, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data From Both Vehicles and the Traffic-Signal Controller Logs Before They Overwrite, 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 Passenger-Injury Cases, Texas Negligence Per Se for the Signal Violation and the Modified Comparative-Fault Rule That Protects Innocent Passengers, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Including $5M+ in Brain-Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If Your Loved One Was the Passenger in the Odessa Red-Light Crash on Andrews Highway, Here Is What You Need to Know Right Now You are sitting in a hospital waiting room at Medical Center Hospital, or you got the call at midnight and drove the dark stretch of Highway 191 into Odessa not knowing if your person would still be alive when you arrived. The monitors are beeping. Someone in scrubs used words like “life-threatening” and “critical” and “next 24 hours.” The police are still at the intersection of 42nd Street and Andrews Highway, where the white Mazda minivan and the blue Ford Mustang collided at over 11 o’clock at night, and the driver who caused it did not survive. Your loved one was in that passenger seat. They had no wheel, no brake, no say in what happened. And right now the single most important thing in their life is whether the people trying to save them win the next few hours — but the second most important thing is whether the evidence of what happened on that road survives the next few days. Because it is already disappearing. Every minute that passes, something else is being overwritten,…

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Jul 16, 2026

Left-Turn Failure-to-Yield Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — 65-Year-Old Rider Fred Giles Seriously Injured and Air-Lifted to a Level I Trauma Center in Lubbock After a Hit-and-Run at University Boulevard, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer, UM/UIM Coverage, and Honda Motor Company Where Vehicle Safety-System Failure Contributed, We Secure the Intersection Surveillance and EDR Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Texas Comparative-Fault Doctrine and Exemplary Damages for the Hit-and-Run’s Conscious Indifference, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Motorcycle Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Someone Turns Left Across Your Path and Then Drives Away If you are reading this because someone you love was on that motorcycle on Andrews Highway on the night of March 14, 2026 — or because you were the one on the Harley, hurt and trying to make sense of what happened — the first thing we want you to know is this: the driver who turned left in front of that motorcycle and then drove away broke two laws that night, not one. The first was the duty to yield. The second was the duty to stop. Both exist in Texas law for the same reason — because a turning car and an oncoming motorcycle are one of the deadliest combinations on any road, and the minutes after impact are the minutes that decide whether someone lives or dies. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle motorcycle accident cases across Texas, and we built this page for one person: the reader who is sitting in a hospital waiting room in Lubbock, or at a kitchen table in Odessa, staring at a phone and trying to figure out what to do next. Everything below is…

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Jul 16, 2026

Andrews Highway Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: 65-Year-Old Harley-Davidson Rider Seriously Injured When a Left-Turning Honda Civic Failed to Yield and Fled the Scene Without Rendering Aid — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Fleeing Driver, the Insurer, and the Automaker When Vehicle Safety Failures Are Part of the Picture, We Move to Preserve the Intersection Surveillance and Flock LPR Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases the Evidence, Texas Duty-to-Stop and Comparative-Fault Doctrine That Amplify Liability When a Driver Abandons a Seriously Injured Rider, UM and UIM Coverage That Opens Recovery When the At-Fault Driver Is Uninsured or Uncollectible, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Claims, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway: What Happened and What You Can Do The call comes from Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, or from a family member who got the call at home at midnight. A 65-year-old man — a father, a husband, a brother — was riding his Harley-Davidson north on Andrews Highway on a Saturday night in March. At 8:49 p.m., a blue Honda Civic traveling south turned left east onto University Boulevard, directly into his path. The investigation by Odessa police found that the Honda failed to yield the right of way. The motorcycle struck the car. The rider went down with serious injuries. And the driver of the Honda did not stop. He did not check on the man he hit. He did not call for help. He drove away and left a 65-year-old person on the pavement. If you are reading this, you are the family. You are standing in a hospital hallway or sitting at a kitchen table with a phone full of missed calls and a head full of questions that will not wait for morning. We are going to answer the most important ones right now, and then we are going…

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