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The University of the Southwest confirms fatal crash involving van carrying golf teams in West Texas
A DPS spokesperson mentioned that as a result of nature of the crash, they don’t seem to be positive how many individuals died, however they’ll affirm there have been fatalities in each autos.
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NBC Information acquired a press release from the President of the College of the Southwest President Quint Thurman.
“We’re nonetheless studying the small print in regards to the accident however we’re devastated and deeply saddened to be taught in regards to the lack of our college students’ lives and their coach,” President Thurman mentioned. “My understanding is that two of our college students have survived and have been airlifted to College hospital in Lubbock with critical accidents. We might ask for prayers for his or her restoration and for consolation and energy for all of households and associates and college students of these whose lives have been misplaced.”
It has additionally been confirmed that the coach of each golf groups, Tyler James, has been killed within the incident. James was coming into his first season as the top coach of each the Males’s and Ladies’s groups.
The staff was taking part in in a event in Midland on Thursday, March 15, and have been scheduled to tee off on Wednesday, March 16, towards Midland Faculty.
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A Texas Division of Public Security spokesperson has confirmed {that a} deadly accident involving a school van occurred on 1788, close to SH 115, in Andrews County Tuesday night time.
The College of the Southwest confirmed in a Fb publish that the van was carrying their males’s and girls’s golf groups.
DPS mentioned that the 17-passenger van and a Ford F-150 truck hit head-on.
The spokesperson mentioned that as a result of nature of the crash, they don’t seem to be positive how many individuals died, however there have been fatalities in each autos.
DPS was unable to launch any extra data on the accident presently.
TxDOT states each north and southbound lanes of FM 1788 are closed. All visitors is being detoured at County Highway 7100.
The investigation is ongoing and NewsWest 9 will replace this story as extra particulars change into out there.