A 13-year-old boy was driving a van (Ford Transit) and collided with another vehicle carrying nine people, including seven member golfers of the Southwest University of Texas men’s and women’s golf team.
The vice president of the United States National Transportation Safety Board, Bruce Landsberg, reported that the 13-year-old boy was at the wheel. at the time of the accident. After the crash, the vehicle caught fire. The young man also lost his life in the accident along with a companion.
Authorities assess that the possible reason for the collision was that one of the truck’s tires exploded and caused the impact between the vehicle that the 13-year-old was driving and the other car where the golfers were going.
“It was very clearly a high-speed head-on collision between two heavy vehicles. There is no question about the force of the impact.” Landsberg explained.
“The USW campus community is shocked and saddened today as we mourn the loss of members of our college family,” school officials said in the statement to ABC affiliate station KMID in Midland.
Two passengers in the team van who survived the crash were in critical condition Wednesday at a Lubbock, Texas, hospital.
The members of the golf team who died in the accident were coach Tyler James and the players Travis Garcia, Karisa Raines, Mauricio Sanchez, Tiago Sousa, Laci Stone, and Jackson Zinn.
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