Multiple people were killed in West Texas when a vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest's golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck in Andrews County, authorities said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says nine people were killed in a head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university's golf teams.
Sgt. Steven Blanco says a pickup truck crossed the center line of a highway and crashed into a vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest men's and women's golf teams. They had been returning from a tournament in Midland, Texas. Blanco says six students were killed, along with a faculty member. The driver of the pickup and its passenger were also killed. He says two students were taken by helicopter to a Lubbock hospital in critical condition."We are still learning the details about the accident but we are devastated and deeply saddened to learn about the loss of our students’ lives and their coach," University President Quint Thurman said in a statement.
The University of the Southwest is a private, Christian college located in Hobbs, New Mexico, near the state’s border with Texas. The teams had been scheduled to play in a tournament Tuesday at Midland College, about 315 miles west of Dallas.The university said on Twitter that it was working to notify family members of those involved in the crash, and counseling and religious services would be available on campus.
The crash happened in the same area — but not the same roadway — where three people were killed in November when a pickup truck crashed into a school bus carrying members of the Andrews High School band.The high school’s band director, the school bus driver and the driver of the pickup truck all died in that crash.
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