The Nationwide Transportation Society Board (NTSB) has confirmed a 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that crashed right into a Ford passenger van carrying six golf college students and their coach from the College of the Southwest on Tuesday, in accordance with the Related Press.
In Texas, potential drivers should take classroom programs at 14 years previous and have to be 15 years previous to obtain a allow to drive with an grownup or driving teacher. Subsequently, a 13-year-old driving a pickup truck can be breaking the regulation.
The tragic crash killed 9 folks, together with six USW golf college students and their coach, in addition to the motive force of the pickup truck and a passenger. The golf groups have been travelling in a 2017 Ford Transit van that was towing a field trailer when it collided with the truck.
The USW golf crew had been returning to campus following a event in Texas when the crash occurred. The College of the Southwest is a personal, Christian faculty situated in Hobbs, New Mexico, close to the state’s border with Texas.
The 2 automobiles reportedly collided on a two-lane asphalt freeway the place the velocity restrict is 75 mph (120 kph), although investigators haven’t but decided how briskly both automobile was travelling. NTSB Chairman Bruce Landsberg says the crash was “clearly a high-speed collision.”
Based on experiences, the truck’s left entrance tyre blew out earlier than influence. Each automobiles are mentioned to have been caught on hearth. Eight of the 9 folks killed within the crash have been named by investigators. USW golf college students Laci Stone, 18, Karisa Raines, 21, Mauricio Sanchez, 19, Travis Garcia, 19, Jackson Zinn, 22, and Tiago Sousa, 18, and golf coach Tyler James, 26, have been all killed.
Two of the golf college students on board the van, Dayton Value and Hayden Underhill each survived and have been airlifted to the hospital the place they’re reportedly recovering from accidents. Henrich Siemens, 38, and an unidentified 13-year-old who was with him within the pickup truck additionally died.
“For unknown causes, the Dodge pickup drove into the northbound lane and struck the Ford passenger van head-on. Each automobiles caught hearth and burned,” mentioned the Texas Division of Public Security.
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