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Fatal Odessa Tractor-Trailer Crash on FM 866: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What Your Family Must Do Before the Evidence Disappears If you are reading this because someone you love was in that GMC Sierra on Farm-to-Market Road 866 at six in the morning on January 12, 2026 — we are talking to you. Not to the internet. To you. The person sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa who just learned that a tractor-trailer turned across the path of someone they cared about, and now that person is gone or in a hospital bed at Medical Center Hospital, and the world has rearranged itself around a fact that does not fit inside a normal life. Here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened on FM 866 was not a mystery. A Peterbilt semi-truck traveling southbound turned east onto University Boulevard — a left turn that carried it directly across the northbound lanes. A 2025 GMC Sierra traveling northbound struck the trailer mid-turn. The GMC then collided with a Ford F-150 stopped at the intersection. The driver of the GMC, Jorge Zapata, twenty-seven years old, from Odessa, was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger was…