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9 killed, including 6 college students, in West Texas collision
DPS says a pickup truck crossed the middle line of a freeway and crashed right into a car carrying members of the College of the Southwest golf groups.
ANDREWS COUNTY, Texas — The Texas Division of Public Security says 9 folks had been killed in a head-on collision in West Texas, together with six college students and a coach from a New Mexico college’s golf groups.
Sgt. Steven Blanco says a pickup truck crossed the middle line of a freeway Tuesday night time and crashed right into a car carrying members of the College of the Southwest males’s and girls’s golf groups. That they had been getting back from a event in Midland, Texas.
Blanco says six college students had been killed, together with a school member. The driving force of the pickup and its passenger had been additionally killed.
He says two college students had been taken by helicopter to a Lubbock hospital in vital situation.
The College of the Southwest confirms seven passengers killed in crash involving golf groups
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A car carrying members of the College of the Southwest’s golf groups collided head-on with a pickup truck on a two-lane street in West Texas, killing a number of folks together with some college students and the groups’ coach, officers mentioned.
The autos crashed Tuesday night time in Andrews County and Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Division of Public Security informed KWES-TV there have been fatalities in each autos, however the variety of lifeless wasn’t instantly launched.
“It’s a really tragic scene,” Blanco mentioned. “It’s very, very tragic.”
A bus was carrying members of the New Mexico college’s males’s and girls’s golf groups from a event in Midland, Texas. The varsity mentioned in a press release that 9 folks, together with the coach, had been on board the bus and that preliminary studies indicated that seven of them had been killed, however the investigation was nonetheless underway.
Two passengers had been in vital situation at a Lubbock hospital, the varsity mentioned.
“We’re nonetheless studying the small print in regards to the accident however we’re devastated and deeply saddened to study in regards to the lack of our college students’ lives and their coach,” College President Quint Thurman mentioned in a press release.
The College of the Southwest is a non-public, Christian faculty positioned in Hobbs, New Mexico, close to the state’s border with Texas. The groups had been scheduled to play in a event Tuesday at Midland Faculty, about 315 miles west of Dallas.
The college said on Twitter that it was working to inform relations of these concerned within the crash, and counseling and non secular companies can be out there on campus.
The crash occurred in the identical space — however not the identical roadway — the place three folks had been killed in November when a pickup truck crashed into a faculty bus carrying members of the Andrews Excessive Faculty band.
The highschool’s band director, the varsity bus driver and the motive force of the pickup truck all died in that crash.
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