Multiple dead in Texas crash involving bus carrying University of the Southwest golf teams

9 individuals have died, together with six College of the Southwest pupil athletes and their coach, after a college bus carrying the boys’s and girls’s golf groups was concerned in a head-on crash with a pickup truck in West Texas on Tuesday evening, authorities stated.

The New Mexico college’s bus was carrying 9 passengers, together with the coach, when the fiery collision occurred round 8:20 p.m. on a two-lane street in Andrews County.

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Preliminary experiences indicated that at the least seven passengers on the bus had been killed, whereas two had been in crucial situation at a Lubbock hospital, the college said in a written statement Wednesday. 

“The USW campus group is shocked and saddened at this time as we mourn the lack of members of our college household,” the college stated.

The Texas Division of Public Security (TDPS) later up to date that six college students and one college member had been killed, together with each the driving force and passenger of the Dodge pickup.

“It’s a really tragic scene,” Sgt. Steven Blanco of the TDPS advised KWES-TV. “It’s very, very tragic.”

The scholars had been touring again to the campus in Hobbs, New Mexico, from a golf match at Midland Faculty, about 315 miles west of Dallas, when the oncoming pickup truck drove into the other lane and struck the bus head-on for “unknown causes,” police stated.

Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Division of Public Security stated there have been fatalities in each the college bus and the pickup truck that collided head-on.
(KWES by way of AP)

“We’re nonetheless studying the main points 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,” College President Quint Thurman stated in an announcement.

The College of the Southwest is a non-public, Christian school situated in Hobbs, New Mexico, close to the state’s border with Texas.

The college stated that it was working to inform members of the family of these concerned within the crash, and counseling and spiritual providers could be accessible on campus.

Authorities are persevering with to analyze the crash.

The Related Press contributed to this report.