HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people, including six members of a college golf team and their coach, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday.
Highlights
- University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams were involved in a fatal car crash half a mile north of State Highway 115 on Farm-to-Market Road 1788 in Andrews County.
- Nine people were killed in the wreck including six students, one coach, and two in a pickup that collided head-on with the university’s van.
- Two Canadian students were hospitalized in critical condition after the crash.
- NTSB sent an investigative team to the crash site in Texas’ Andrews County, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of the New Mexico state line.
- It’s not uncommon for people in rural parts of the U.S.
- to learn to drive when they’re young.