Texas Personal Injury

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

Wrong-Way Head-On Collision on SH 302 in Ector County, Texas Kills Sebastian Trevino, 25, and Juan Guerrero, 26 — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Fatal Permian Basin Highway Crashes, We Pursue the Wrong-Way Driver, the Bar That May Have Overserved Them at 4:45 AM, Ford Motor Company, and Every Liable Party, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Claims, We Extract EDR Black-Box Data and Blood Toxicology Before Bar Surveillance Overwrites, a Pickup-vs-Compact-Sedan Mass Ratio at Highway Closing Speed That Predicts Polytrauma for Surviving Occupants Including the 16-Year-Old, Texas Negligence-Per-Se for Wrong-Way Driving, Dram-Shop Liability, and the Wrongful-Death Act, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Wrong-Way Crash on SH 302: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on State Highway 302 in the pre-dawn darkness of December 7, 2025. Maybe you got the call from Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. Maybe you got a call from someone who recognized the name on the DPS report. Maybe you are sitting in a waiting room right now, or sitting at a kitchen table that has too many empty chairs already. We are writing this for you — one person, in crisis, trying to understand what happened and what to do next. Here is what the Texas Department of Public Safety has reported: at approximately 4:45 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, a 2014 Ford F-150 was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of SH 302 near the FM 181 intersection in Ector County. A 2017 Hyundai Elantra was traveling eastbound. The two vehicles collided head-on. Two passengers in the Hyundai — two young men from Odessa, 25 and 26 years old — were pronounced dead at the scene. Three people were transported to Medical Center Hospital, including the driver and a passenger from the Ford…

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Jul 16, 2026

Construction Zone Wrongful Death on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Patrick Daniel Purdon, 24, Struck and Killed by a Hit-and-Run Tractor-Trailer in an Active Work Zone: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pursue the Motor Carriers and the Contractor Shells Behind the Rig, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, FMCSA Construction-Zone Caution Requirements Under 49 CFR 392.14, Texas Wrongful-Death and Gross-Negligence Doctrine When a Driver Flees the Scene, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County I-20 Tractor-Trailer Hit-and-Run: A Construction Worker Killed in the Work Zone He Was Protecting The call came and your world stopped. A young man from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico — 24 years old, working a construction job on Interstate 20 in Reeves County — was doing his duty inside an active work zone when a tractor-trailer came through and took his life. The truck did not stop. It reentered the westbound lane and kept driving until a construction supervisor flagged it down. Your loved one was pronounced dead at the scene. If you are reading this, you are probably his family. You are probably reading at an hour when most people sleep, because sleep left somewhere around the second night, and what replaced it is questions. Who is responsible. What evidence still exists. What the trucking company is already doing. What your family’s rights actually are while the hours pass. This page exists to answer those questions — not with platitudes, but with the specific law, the specific evidence clocks, and the specific steps that decide whether accountability happens or slips away. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial truck crash cases and…

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Jul 16, 2026

Fatal Train Derailment in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed When Freight Train Collided With Tractor-Trailer at Grade Crossing, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to FELA Wrongful-Death Claims and Third-Party Trucking Liability, We Pursue the Motor Carrier Behind the Grade-Crossing Collision and Hold the Railroad Under the Federal Employer’s Liability Act’s Slightest-Negligence Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Black-Box Data, Crossing Signal Logs and Truck ELD Records Before the Overwrite, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Modified Comparative Fault, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Railroad Workers Dead, Three Injured — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on a Union Pacific freight train on December 18, 2024, and did not come home — or because you were inside a building in Pecos when a derailed train came through the wall — you are in a place no one prepares you for. The first thing you need to hear is simple: what happened to your family is not just a tragedy. It is a legal event with a clock on it, and the clock is already running against you. Two Union Pacific employees were killed when their freight train collided with a tractor-trailer at a railway crossing in Pecos, Texas, just before 5 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in December. The train derailed. Three people were hurt — some of them inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the derailed train struck it with enough force that officials warned no one should enter until a structural engineer inspected the damage. The train was carrying hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries and air bags. None were released, and the…

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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

Pecos Train-Truck Collision & Wrongful Death Attorneys: 2 Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Heavy-Equipment Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the Tracks at 68 MPH | Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Reeves County, We Pursue the Trucking Company, the Cargo-Securement Entity and Every Carrier Behind the Haul, We Pull the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Grade-Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, FMCSA Crossing Rules and FELA Railroad-Employee Claims, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Pecos Train-Truck Collision: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that Union Pacific train, or inside that building in Pecos when a tractor-trailer stopped on the tracks and the world came apart. You are sitting with a grief that has not yet found its shape, or with a pain in your body you are trying to tell yourself is nothing, while the insurance company’s first call is already coming. We are writing this page to you — not to explain the news, which you already know, but to tell you what the news does not say: what your rights actually are, what the companies are already doing to protect themselves, and what is disappearing right now that your family will never get back if someone does not act to freeze it. A tractor-trailer hauling heavy equipment came to a stop on active Union Pacific railroad tracks at a crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, in December 2024. It stayed there for approximately one minute. A Union Pacific train traveling about 68 miles per hour struck it after the crew applied emergency brakes. The collision derailed the…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way I-20 Head-On Crash & School Bus Wrongful Death Near Big Spring, Howard County, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin Corridor Where F-350 Pickups Are Often Oilfield Service Vehicles, We Pursue Ford Motor Company on F-350 Crashworthiness and Fuel-System Integrity After the Post-Crash Fire, the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, and Any Commercial Employer Behind the Wheel, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data Before Fire Damage Destroys It and School Bus Camera Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and 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

Big Spring I-20 Wrong-Way Crash: Three Dead, Fourteen Injured When Ford F-350 Hits Andrews ISD Band Bus Head-On If you are reading this because someone you love was on that bus — or because you are living through something like it right now, on a different highway, on a different night — you are in a place where the world has stopped making sense. A child left for a football game. A band trip. A Friday night in West Texas that should have ended with instruments unloaded in a school parking lot. Instead it ended with helicopters, a fire on the interstate, and a phone call no parent is built to receive. We need to tell you something straight, before anything else: the legal deadlines for the November 2021 crash on I-20 near Big Spring have passed. The two-year window to file most claims has closed. But the law that governed that crash — the rights it created, the evidence it required, the traps it set for families who did not know the rules — is the same law that governs the next crash. And the next one is always coming. That is why this page exists: not to reopen…

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Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way Head-On Crash on SH 302 in Ector County, Texas: Sebastian Trevino and Juan Guerrero Killed, Jesus Montoya Seriously Injured When a Ford F-150 Driving Against Oncoming Traffic Struck Their Hyundai Elantra at 4:45 A.M. — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic-Injury Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner for Negligent Entrustment, and Any Bar That Served a 19-Year-Old Under Texas Dram-Shop Law, We Hold Manufacturers Like Ford Motor Company When Crashworthiness Fails in Head-On Collisions, We Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data and Blood Toxicology Before Surveillance Footage Overwrites in 30 Days, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Fatal Crashes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Gross-Negligence Punitive Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Two Odessa Men Killed in a Wrong-Way Head-On Crash on SH 302 — What the Families Need to Know Now If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Hyundai on State Highway 302 before dawn on December 7, 2025, the first thing we want you to know is this: the people who were killed were doing everything right. They were wearing their seat belts. They were traveling in the correct direction. They bear no responsibility for what happened to them. The law provides a path to accountability, and this page is written to show you that path — what it looks like, what the timeline is, what evidence is disappearing while you read, and what to do in the hours and days ahead. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and car accident cases across Texas. This page is legal information and a resource for families in crisis — it is not legal advice, and nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. But everything here is real, it is specific to what happened on SH 302, and it is written by the trial attorneys who would handle a case like this…

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