Odessa, Texas

Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway in Odessa: Fred Giles, 65, Air-Lifted to Lubbock After a Left-Turning Honda Civic Failed to Yield and Fled the Scene, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner and Every Insurance Policy Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Motorcycle Cases, We Secure the Honda Civic’s Black-Box Data and Intersection CCTV Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Failure-to-Yield and Stop-and-Render-Aid Law with Exemplary Damages for Hit-and-Run Flight and False-Report Cover-Up, 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 — Your Legal Rights After a Driver Flees the Scene If you found this page, someone you love may be in a hospital bed in Lubbock right now, and the person who put them there drove away. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happens next — not as a sales pitch, but as the straight legal truth from a trial team that has spent decades inside these cases. The crash happened at Andrews Highway and University on a Saturday night in March. A southbound Honda Civic turned left across a northbound Harley-Davidson, failed to yield, and then ran. The rider — a 65-year-old man — is now fighting for his life at a trauma center hours from home. The driver and a second person have been arrested. That is the surface. Beneath it is a case that is stronger, and more urgent, than most people realize. Here is why, and here is what to do about it. What Happened at Andrews Highway and University on March 14, 2026 Andrews Highway is the spine of Odessa’s commercial corridor — a north-south arterial lined with retail, restaurants, and the heavy…

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Jul 16, 2026

Intoxication Assault on Andrews Highway: A Drunk Driver in a Dodge Ram Triggered a Four-Vehicle Chain Crash in Odessa, Texas, Hospitalizing a Harley-Davidson Motorcyclist and Van Driver — Attorney911 Traces the Alcohol Service Backward for Texas Dram Shop Liability, Pulls the BAC Toxicology and the Ram’s Event-Data-Recorder Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped and Corridor Surveillance Overwrites, Pursues the At-Fault Insurer, the Bar That Over-Served, and Stellantis as the Vehicle Manufacturer, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered by the Firm, Texas Gross-Negligence Doctrine for Punitive Damages, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on Andrews Highway in Odessa — and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this because someone you love was on Andrews Highway on a Thursday evening in Odessa, and a pickup truck driven by a man who should never have been behind the wheel changed everything in the seconds it took for four vehicles to collide at the intersection of Yukon. The Odessa Police Department charged the driver of that Dodge Ram with intoxication assault — a third-degree felony under Texas law — which means investigators already concluded that his impairment caused serious bodily injury to another person. That charge is not your civil case. But it is the strongest piece of evidence your civil case will ever have, and the insurance company knows it. We are Attorney911 — Legal Emergency Lawyers. We handle drunk-driving injury cases in Texas. And the first thing you need to understand is this: the proof that this crash was his fault is already being gathered by the police and the Ector County prosecutor — but the proof that could make your family’s case worth what it should be worth is disappearing, right now, on a clock you cannot see.…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run DWI Motorcycle Crash at University and Andrews in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — Drunk Driver with Three Prior DWI Convictions Ran a Red Light in a Jeep Commander Into a 35-Year-Old Motorcyclist, the Mass Disparity Between a 5,000-Pound SUV and an Unprotected Rider Causing Life-Threatening Injuries Transferred to a Lubbock Trauma Center, Attorney911 Pursues the Dram Shop That Overserved a Habitual DWI Offender and the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer, We Image the Jeep’s EDR Before Impound Release and Pull Bar Surveillance Before the Overwrite Erases It, Texas Gross-Negligence and Exemplary-Damages Doctrine for Repeat DWI Hit-and-Run, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Drunk Driver With Three Prior DWI Convictions Ran a Red Light in Odessa — and a Motorcyclist Is Fighting for His Life in Lubbock If you are reading this from a hospital hallway in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Odessa where the phone just rang with news no family is ready to hear, we want you to understand one thing before anything else: what happened to your motorcyclist at 2:04 a.m. on August 9 at University Boulevard and Andrews Highway was not an accident. It was a choice — a choice made by a man who had already been convicted of driving drunk three times before, who got behind the wheel of a silver Jeep Commander again, who ran a red light in the commercial heart of Odessa, and who then ran away on foot while a 35-year-old man lay in the street with life-threatening injuries. The Odessa Police Department arrested him. He admitted to hitting the motorcycle. Officers determined he was drunk. They found nearly five ounces of marijuana in his possession. He was charged with Intoxication Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury, Collision Involving Personal Injury, Possession of Marijuana, and Evading Arrest. He is in the…

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Jul 16, 2026

Hit-and-Run Motorcycle Crash on Andrews Highway in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, Where a Left-Turning Honda Civic Failed to Yield and the Driver Fled, Leaving a Seriously Injured Rider Airlifted to a Level I Trauma Center 150 Miles Away — Attorney911 Pursues the Fleeing Driver, the Vehicle Owner and the Insurers Behind Them on the Permian Basin’s High-Traffic Arterials, We Pull the Intersection CCTV, the Civic’s EDR Black-Box Data and the Cell Records That Expose Distracted Driving and the Cover-Up Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Gross-Negligence and Punitive Damages When Flight Shows Conscious Disregard, UM/UIM Recovery When the At-Fault Driver’s Limits Fall Short, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on Andrews Highway: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Odessa where a chair is empty that should not be empty, we need you to hear something first: what happened to your rider was not an accident. It was a choice — a choice to turn left across a motorcycle that had the right of way, and then a second choice, even worse, to leave a human being broken on the pavement and drive away. On the night of March 14, 2026, at 8:49 PM, a motorcyclist riding a black Harley-Davidson northbound on Andrews Highway was struck at the intersection of University Boulevard by a blue Honda Civic traveling southbound. The Civic’s driver turned left into the motorcycle’s path — the single most common and most deadly collision pattern in motorcycle safety research, known across the field by its acronym: SMIDSY, “Sorry, Mate, I Didn’t See You.” The rider was rushed to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa with serious injuries, then airlifted to a Level I trauma center in Lubbock, roughly 150 miles northeast. That flight — the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Jul 16, 2026

Motorcycle Product Liability & Catastrophic Amputation: Wesley Lemoine Bought a New 2023 Harley-Davidson FLTRXSE CVO in Odessa, Took It Back Three Times for Electrical Failures the Dealer Called Minor, Then the Bike Lost Power Without Warning and Threw Him — Right Leg Amputated Below the Knee, Attorney911 Pursues Harley-Davidson and Legacy Motorcycle Under Texas Strict Products Liability and the DTPA, We Secure the ECU, EDR Data and Wiring Harness Before the Motorcycle Is Tested or Altered, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered), NHTSA Recall Framework and Texas Gross-Negligence Punitive Damages, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Machine You Trusted Takes Your Leg — Motorcycle Product Liability in Odessa, Ector County You bought a new motorcycle from a dealership on West Highway 80 in Odessa. You paid premium money for a premium bike — a 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide, the top of their custom line. Within weeks, the electrical system started acting up: the radio cutting out, the phone disconnecting, and at least once, the engine losing power. You took it back. Three or four times, you took it back. You told them you did not want it anymore. They told you it was not a big problem and could be fixed. They did not fix it. They did not tell you about any defects or recalls. And then on May 4, 2024, the motorcycle suddenly and without warning lost all power — and you were thrown from it. You lost your right leg below the knee. We are writing this page for the person sitting in a rehabilitation room right now, or the family member searching at 2 a.m. for answers about what happened on that road in the Permian Basin. What happened to you is not just an accident. It is not…

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Jul 6, 2026

Commercial Truck Accident & Wrongful Death on I-20 Near Odessa, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues Werner Enterprises and the National Carriers Behind Trainee Drivers Dispatched Into Winter Storm Warnings, 49 CFR 392.14: Extreme Caution and Discontinued Operation When Black Ice Turns Highways Deadly, We Pull the ELD Telematics, ECM Black-Box Data and Dispatch Communications Before the 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 These Cases, $5M+ TBI Recovery, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery, and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Comparative-Fault Rule and the Stowers Duty to Settle Within Policy Limits — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on I-20 Near Odessa, Texas: A Family Destroyed in Black Ice If you are reading this because a commercial truck hit your family on Interstate 20 — or because someone you love didn’t come home from the Permian Basin — you already know what black ice does. It turns a road that looks merely wet into something that steals traction without warning. You know the sound, or the silence, of a vehicle that is no longer answering its driver. You know what the tow yard looks like at dawn. And you may already know that the trucking company’s insurance adjuster called before the funeral. We are the trial team at Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial truck crash cases in Texas — the 18-wheelers, the tanker rigs, the linehaul freight that moves through the Permian Basin on Interstate 20 and the corridors that feed it. This page is not about our case. It is about a case that happened on the same road you may be sitting next to right now — a December 2014 crash near Odessa, Texas, that destroyed a family, produced an $89.7 million jury verdict, and then was reversed by the…

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Jul 6, 2026

Fatal I-20 Tractor-Trailer Crash & Wrongful Death Near Odessa, Texas: 7-Year-Old Zachery Blake Killed, Sister Left Quadriplegic After an Icy-Pavement Collision With a Werner Enterprises 18-Wheeler — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pursue the National Mega-Carriers and the Layered Insurance Stack Behind Them, the FMCSA Extreme-Caution Duty Under 49 CFR 392.14 That Requires Commercial Drivers to Slow Down and Use Extreme Care on Icy Highways, Texas Wrongful-Death Law With No Cap on Non-Economic Damages in Commercial-Vehicle Cases, the Stowers Doctrine That Can Expose the Insurer Beyond Policy Limits, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and ELD Telematics Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Quadriplegia and Pediatric Wrongful-Death Claims, 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 Odessa I-20 Werner Case: A $100 Million Verdict, a Supreme Court Reversal, and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this, someone you love may have been hurt or killed on Interstate 20 near Odessa — or on any of the Permian Basin corridors where 80,000-pound tractor-trailers mix with passenger vehicles at highway speeds on roads that freeze without warning. You may be sitting in a hospital hallway or at a kitchen table covered in paperwork, and the insurance adjuster has already called you once. We want you to know three things before you read any further: what happened to you is not random, the company that hit you is already working to limit what it pays, and the law gives you tools most people never hear about until it is too late to use them. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking accident cases across Texas, including the I-20 corridor through Ector County and the Permian Basin. This page is about a specific case — a December 30, 2014 crash on I-20 near Odessa that killed a 7-year-old child and left his sister quadriplegic — and about what that…

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