Odessa, Texas

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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Jul 6, 2026

I-20 Black-Ice Tractor-Trailer Crash Near Odessa, Ector County, Texas Killed 7-Year-Old Zachery Blake and Left His Sister Quadriplegic: Attorney911 Pursues National Truckload Carriers Like Werner Enterprises Under FMCSA Speed-for-Conditions Rules, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ECM Black-Box and Telematics Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Catastrophic Truck Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck Crashes and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Werner Enterprises Verdict, the Nuclear-Verdicts Debate, and What They Mean for Your Family After an Odessa Truck Crash If you are reading this at a kitchen table in Odessa, or Midland, or anywhere along the Interstate 20 corridor that cuts through the Permian Basin, you already know what a commercial truck does to a passenger vehicle when something goes wrong on this stretch of highway. You may have seen it. You may have lived through it. You may be sitting with medical bills that arrived before the hospital discharge papers, or with a funeral home’s card on the counter and a child who will never walk again. This page is for you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle 18-wheeler accident cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin corridor that runs through Ector County. This page uses a real case — the December 30, 2014 crash on Interstate 20 near Odessa that killed a seven-year-old child and left his twelve-year-old sister quadriplegic — to explain the law, the evidence, the money, and the fight that a family faces when a commercial truck is involved in a catastrophic collision. We were not counsel in that case. We…

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Jul 6, 2026

I-20 Winter-Storm 18-Wheeler Wrongful Death & Pediatric Quadriplegia Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the National Mega-Carriers That Run Trucks at Highway Speed Through Active Winter Storm Warnings on Black Ice — the I-20 Crash Near Odessa, Texas Where a Werner Enterprises 18-Wheeler at 50 MPH Killed a 7-Year-Old Boy and Left His 12-Year-Old Sister Quadriplegic, a Jury Finding the Carrier 70% Liable for Inadequate Safety Policies, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Dispatch Records Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, FMCSA 49 CFR 392.14 Requires Extreme Caution and Speed Reduction in Hazardous Conditions — Texas Proportionate-Responsibility and Stowers Doctrine Apply — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Texas: The Werner Enterprises Winter Storm Truck Crash on I-20 — FMCSA 392.14, Corporate Safety Failures, and the $92M Verdict That Was Reversed If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in a commercial truck crash on I-20 — or on any highway in the Permian Basin during a winter storm — you are probably sitting with a folder of papers you do not understand, a phone full of missed calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds sympathetic and is not, and a grief that has not yet found its shape. We are going to tell you the truth about what happened in a case that is remarkably similar to yours, what the law requires, what the company is already doing, and what your first steps should be. None of this is theoretical. Every word is grounded in the federal regulations that govern every truck on I-20, the Texas law that governs your right to recover, and the medicine that governs what a catastrophic injury costs across a lifetime. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. But the…

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Jul 5, 2026

18-Wheeler Crash on E. Loop 338 at 87th Street in Odessa, Texas, Diesel Spill Shuts Both Southbound Lanes as Police Investigate the Crash, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Trucking Corridor, We Pursue the Operating Carrier, the Driver and the Lease-Back Shell Companies Common to Oilfield Logistics, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies These Cases, We Pull the ELD Hours-of-Service Logs and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite, FMCSA Regulations Under 49 CFR 390-399 and the Texas Comparative-Fault Rule, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Crash on Loop 338: What Happened and What It Means for You If you were on E. Loop 338 near 87th Street when the 18-wheeler crashed, or if someone you love was, you already know what the road looked like that day — the diesel running across the asphalt, the flashing lights, the southbound lanes gone. What you may not know is that while you were sitting in that traffic or standing on the shoulder, the trucking company’s response machine was already in motion. Within hours of a crash like this, carriers deploy their own investigators, their own insurance adjusters, and their own attorneys to the scene. They begin building the company’s version of what happened before the tow truck even arrives. That is not a coincidence. It is procedure. The Odessa Police Department has confirmed that a crash involving an 18-wheeler occurred at the intersection of E. Loop 338 and 87th Street, resulting in a diesel fuel spill that forced the closure of both southbound lanes for several hours. The public report does not yet identify the commercial carrier, the driver, any other vehicles involved, or whether injuries or fatalities occurred. The full Texas CR-3 crash report —…

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