Fatal I-40 Tractor-Trailer Median Crossover in Potter County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Operating Carrier Behind the 2022 Mack That Breached the Cable Barrier Into Oncoming Traffic, Killing Jimmy Broyles and Injuring Two Others, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 8-Day Overwrite and the Driver Qualification File Before It Is Altered, Post-Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing Mandated Under 49 CFR for Fatal Commercial Crashes, the Breached Cable Barrier May Support a Products Claim Against Its Manufacturer for Design or Installation Defects, 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, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Law, the Stowers Demand That Forces the Carrier’s Insurer to Settle Within Policy Limits or Face Excess Liability — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
When an 80,000-Pound Truck Crosses the I-40 Median and Kills Someone You Love: What Your Family Needs to Know in Potter County, Texas I-40 through Potter County at 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon. A 2022 Mack tractor-trailer — 80,000 pounds of commercial freight rolling westbound through the Panhandle — crossed the center median, tore through the cable barrier that was engineered to stop exactly this kind of crossover, and entered the eastbound lanes where it met a 1999 Ford F-250 pickup head-on. The pickup’s driver, a 76-year-old man from Logan, New Mexico, was killed at the scene. The force of that collision shoved his truck into a third vehicle, a Chevrolet Malibu, injuring its 24-year-old driver. The truck driver survived with minor injuries. The Mack tractor kept going — across the frontage road, into an open field — before it finally stopped. If you are reading this page, you are most likely sitting with the knowledge that someone you love is not coming home from I-40. Maybe you got the call from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Maybe you are the one who had to tell the rest of the family. Maybe you are the person who was…