A boy aged 13 was driving a van (Ford Transit) and collided with another vehicle containing nine people, including which included seven golfers who were members of the men’s and women’s golf teams at Southwest University of Texas.
The Vice President of the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States, Bruce Landsberg, reported that the child of years 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.
“He used golf as a form of ministry and he ministered to our student athletes.”
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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 driven by the young man from years and the other car where the golfers went.
“It was very clearly a high-speed head-on collision between two heavy vehicles. There is no doubt about the force of the impact”, explained Landsberg.
“The USW campus community is shocked and saddened today as we mourn the loss of members of our college family,” school officials said in a statement to ABC affiliate station KMID in Midland.
Two passengers from 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 players Travis Garcia, Karisa Raines, Mauricio Sanchez, Tiago Sousa, Laci Stone and Jackson Zinn.
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