9 Dead After Bus Carrying University Golf Team Crashes in Texas
Nine people, including six University of the Southwest golf players and their golf coach, have been killed after a fiery head-on collision between their mini-bus and a pickup truck in West Texas on Tuesday night.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Sgt. Steven Blanco, “for unknown reasons” the pickup veered into the opposite lane, hitting the oncoming bus. Both vehicles were engulfed in flames that could be “seen for miles,” KHOU 11 reported.
Nine passengers on the bus were injured, seven of whom died, the university said. The two surviving students were said to be in critical condition and receiving treatment after being airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas. The driver and passenger of the pickup truck also died.