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The Texas boy from 13 years old, who was behind the wheel during the high-speed accident that killed nine people, including six college golfers, set his family’s home on fire just three months ago, a family friend pointed out.
Ricky Siemens was driving illegally when he died along with his father, Heinrich Siemens, of 38 years, when the spare tire on your Dodge 2500 of 2007 exploded and sent the vehicle hurtling onto the opposite side of a road two-lane.
#Horror, #Smash, #Death, #GolfTeam, Kid driver in horror smash with golf team van burned down family home months before
Ricky Siemens was illegally driving when he died alongside his dad after their 2007 Dodge 2500 crashed head-on into a van carrying a college golf team. pic.twitter.com/y3kr2h7xvg— Robert Weber (@RobertW00430605) March 18, 2022
The vehicle collided head-on with a Ford Transit van carrying golfers from Southwest University, six of whom were killed along with their golf coach 26 years, while two Canadian players in critical condition were airlifted to hospitals.
The young teenage driver, a member of the Evangelical Mennonite Church in his hometown, Seminole , was also behind a devastating accident in December that left his family homeless and killed one of their dogs, a friend said.
“Just before Christmas, your house is burned… The boy of 14 years old made some eggs and forgot”, d family friend Aganetha told DailyMail.com
“I couldn’t imagine going through all that and then having this happen,” she said to the middle. “It’s so sad.”
She said no one was hurt in the fire, although one online fundraiser said they “lost a dog in the fire.”
“Her house burned down with all her personal belongings inside,” said the fundraiser, who searched for $30, dollars to help them and raised just over a third of that.
“Some of the children ran out of the house without shoes. It’s hard to reboot for this family of 6,” he said.
Ricky’s mother, Aggie Siemens, posted an “in loving memory” tribute to her husband and son on Facebook, where she also changed her status to “widow”.
He had referred to the house fire in a post seeking technical help on 14 in December, noting that his “laptop was in the house during the fire.”
Your son was driving illegally at the time of the accident in Texas, where he must have 14 years to start taking face-to-face courses to obtain a learner’s license and 15 to receive that provisional license to drive with an instructor or licensed adult in the vehicle.
While it is not unusual for young teenagers to drive in that region, “it was silly” for a 13 year old boy was behind the wheel on a busy two-lane highway said Gib Stevens, who manages area trucking operations for an oilfield service company.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) English) said Thursday that he is still hoping to recover enough information from the vehicle’s recorders, if they survived, to understand what happened. Although it was unclear how fast the two vehicles were traveling, “this was clearly a high-speed collision,” said NTSB Vice President Bruce Landsberg.
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