One child 13 years old driving the Van that collided with another vehicle in Texaskilling nine people, including six members of a New Mexico university men’s and women’s golf team and a coach, among the victims was a young Mexicanreported the US National Transportation Safety Board.
The fierce head-on collision occurred in western Texasand also left two others hospitalized.
Bruce Landsberg / Vice President of the NTSB:
A 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel of the truck.
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“The left front tire, which was a spare tire, had failed, resulting in the Van he pulled hard to the left and crossed into the oncoming lane,” Landsberg said.
“It was very clearly a high-speed head-on collision between two heavy vehicles,” he added.
According to Landsberg “On Tuesday March 15 at 8:17 pm an eight foot cargo trailer. A 2007 Dodge 2500 three-quarter ton truck traveling northbound on the freeway crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a Van o 2017 11-passenger bus carrying an eight-foot cargo trailer. The bus was carrying the coach and eight members of the South West College men’s and women’s golf team. Tragically, the coach and six of the team members died at the crash site. Two team members were transported to Lubbock area hospitals in critical condition.”
The driver, a child just 13 years old and his co-pilot, a 38-year-old man, also died in the accident that occurred in Andrews County, Texas.
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A Mexican lost his life in the deadly crash in Texas
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The two vehicles involved were traveling at more than 120 km per hour, that and the recklessness of putting a child 13 years old, could be the main causes of the fatal crash:
“We know the posted speed limit was 75 miles per hour, so it’s reasonable to assume, but we’re not making assumptions, that both vehicles were probably moving somewhere in the vicinity of that speed. However, we will look to download the vehicle recorders, if they have survived, and we will be able to know exactly. What I can tell you is that it was very clearly a high-speed head-on collision between two heavy vehicles. You won’t be able to see the vehicles directly, but we have literally thousands of photographs that were taken by the various first responders, and there is no question about the force of the impact.”
USW, a private Christian university in Hobbs, New Mexico, said its
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It was carrying nine people, seven of whom died and two others in critical condition at a Texas hospital.
Among the fatalities are the coach and six university students, including Tiago Sousa, an 18-year-old Portuguese man, and Mauricio Sánchez, a
Mexican
19 years old; two more students, of Canadian origin, were transferred to a hospital in critical condition.
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