Texas Personal Injury

Jul 16, 2026

Wrong-Way I-20 Head-On Collision in Big Spring, Howard County, Texas Killed Andrews Band Director Darin Johns, Bus Driver Marc Boswell and Injured Student Jack Ortiz: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, to Fatal Wrong-Way Interstate Crashes, We Pursue the At-Fault Wrong-Way Driver’s Estate and Insurer and Investigate Dram Shop Liability When a Licensed Provider Served an Obviously Intoxicated Driver, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Claims, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data, Bus Camera Footage and Toxicology Records Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Negligence Per Se for Wrong-Way Driving on a Divided Highway, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total Including Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring, Howard County, Texas: When a Wrong-Way Driver on I-20 Kills — What the Families of the Andrews Band Bus Crash Need to Know You are reading this because someone you love was on that bus, or because someone you love is gone because of what happened on Interstate 20 that Friday night in November 2021. Maybe you are the parent of a student who came home with a leg that was broken in a head-on collision on a controlled-access interstate — a child who was traveling for a football playoff game and instead came home from a hospital. Maybe you are the spouse, the child, or the parent of the band director who didn’t come home at all. Or the retired math teacher who drove the bus because he loved the kids and the community, and who also didn’t come home. We are not going to pretend we know exactly what you are feeling. We are going to tell you what we know about the legal fight in front of you — clearly, honestly, and without padding — because the fight is real, the deadlines are already running, and the evidence is already disappearing. What happened on that…

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Jul 16, 2026

Life-Threatening Motorcycle Crash at Thomas Street & Midkiff Road: When a Turning Kia SUV Fails to Yield on Midland’s Oil-Boom Arterials and Ejects a Rider, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pull the At-Fault Driver’s EDR Black-Box Data and Intersection Surveillance Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys It, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Uses Helmet Non-Use to Minimize Life-Threatening Injury Claims, Texas Comparative-Fault Law Puts Liability on the Driver Who Failed to Yield — the Helmet Is a Mitigation Question Not a Recovery Bar, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Motorcycle Crash at Thomas Street and Midkiff Road: What Happened and What Your Family Needs to Know Now If you are reading this from a waiting room at Midland Memorial Hospital, or you got the phone call nobody is ready for — the one about someone you love thrown from a motorcycle on North Midkiff Road — we need you to hear three things before anything else. First: the Midland Police Department has already determined that the Kia SUV failed to yield the right-of-way to the motorcycle. The at-fault driver violated your loved one’s right-of-way. This is the Kia driver’s fault for causing the collision, not the rider’s fault for being on the road. Second: the fact that the motorcycle operator was not wearing a helmet does not erase the case. We will explain exactly why below — but Texas law is specific about what helmet non-use does and does not do to a personal injury claim, and the short version is this: it does not bar recovery, it does not prove the rider caused the crash, and the defense has to prove a helmet would have prevented each specific injury it wants to argue about. The crash was…

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Jul 16, 2026

Patricia Busso, 52, Killed in FM 1788 Rollover Crash in Andrews County, Texas — Attorney911 Wrongful Death Attorneys Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Commercial Operator, and the Manufacturer Behind Rollover Roof Crush When a Heavy-Duty Chassis Cab Like the Ram 5500 Crosses the FMCSA 10,001-Pound Commercial Threshold in the Permian Basin, 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, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell Records Before the Overwrite, Under Texas Wrongful Death Law Surviving Families May Pursue Uncapped Damages, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews County FM 1788 Rollover Crash — Wrongful Death Rights for Surviving Families If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on FM 1788, you already know the hardest part. The road that runs through your part of the Permian Basin took someone who was just driving — a 52-year-old woman from Andrews, heading south on a Thursday morning, who never made it home. What follows is about what Texas law allows a surviving family to do about that, how fast the proof of what happened is disappearing, and why the distance between accountability and silence is measured in days, not years. Here is what the public record shows. A northbound 2024 Ram 5500 turned left across the southbound lanes of FM 1788 and collided with a 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Jeep rolled over. Its driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The Texas Department of Public Safety has preliminarily determined that the driver of the Ram failed to yield the right of way. The investigation is ongoing. The Ram being driving by [the at-fault driver] failed to yield the right of way, turning left and hit the Jeep… causing it to rollover. — Texas Department…

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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

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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