Coach and Six College Golfers Die in Texas Bus Wreck

Seven folks from the College of the Southwest died after its males’s and girls’s golf groups have been concerned in a deadly wreck in Texas on Tuesday evening, officers from the Christian college in New Mexico stated Wednesday.

“The usW. campus neighborhood is shocked and saddened right this moment as we mourn the lack of members of our college household,” the college stated in a press release that additionally stated that two passengers have been in crucial situation and being handled in Lubbock, Texas.

Though the college didn’t establish any of the victims by identify, it stated its golf coach was among the many individuals who had died within the wreck, which it stated occurred when its bus was “struck by oncoming site visitors.” A spokeswoman for the college in Hobbs, N.M., stated the one folks aboard the bus have been the golf coach, Tyler James, and college students.

The Texas Division of Public Security, which is investigating the wreck, didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Wednesday. However a spokesman, Sgt. Steven Blanco, advised native information retailers that the opposite car concerned within the crash had been a Ford F-150 pickup and that at the least one particular person within the truck died.

“It’s a really tragic scene,” the sergeant advised KWES-TV close to the crash website on Tuesday evening. “It’s very, very tragic.”

The golf groups had traveled to Texas, the place a lot of their gamers had gone to highschool, to compete in a collegiate match in Midland. The crash occurred in close by Andrews County.

James was new to the nondenominational spiritual college, employed simply final summer season as coach after he had labored at different Christian universities and at a highschool about 120 miles southwest of Fort Price.

The usW. sports activities program, which competes within the Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics, is part of the undergraduate expertise for many college students, in line with federal data. Between July 2019 and June 2020, it earned revenues of about $3.5 million and recorded simply greater than that in bills.