Reeves County, TX — February 17, 2024, Katarina Franco Tapia was killed following a car accident at around 1:45 a.m. along Business I-20.
Authorities said in preliminary statements that the accident happened in the area of Collie Road on the east end of Pecos.
According to authorities, 29-year-old Katarina Franco Tapia was in a Ford Focus which was going westbound along Business 20. For reasons unconfirmed, the vehicle lost control, causing it to skid off-road. The vehicle then overturned along the side of the road. As a result, Franco Tapia was killed.
Police mentioned no other vehicles or passengers involved in the accident. Additional details are unavailable at this time.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
Call me a broken record, but I’ll ask here what I do after any single-vehicle wreck: Is this crash getting the attention it deserves? To be clear, I don’t have any specific information to make me skeptical about this crash. But all the time, we get calls from people who lost a loved one in a single-vehicle wreck, and authorities left them with a mountain of unanswered questions. Why is that?
The unfortunate reality is single-vehicle accidents are not a high priority for most departments. Unless they have a dedicated accident reconstruction team, they can easily overlook complex possible factors, such as mechanical defects or road hazards. Instead, authorities often just assume the driver did something wrong. They end up being right a lot of the time, but they also inevitably end up blaming some victims for accidents that weren’t their fault.
That’s why it’s best to simply let the evidence speak for itself. Doing so means ensuring the crash is in the hands of investigators who won’t let that evidence slip through the cracks. Is this accident in good hands?
call us 
Email Us 
Text us