On the way back from a golf tournament, a golf team’s vehicle is hit by another car. Passengers in both vehicles die. A tire is said to have burst before the accident.
Family and friends remember one of the deceased at a ceremony on March 17, 2022 in Texas.
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In an accident that killed nine people in the American state of Texas, a 13-year-old was at the wheel of one of the vehicles involved. The teenager was driving a pickup truck that crashed into a van, the NTSB said on Thursday. Investigators assume that a tire of the small truck burst before the collision.
The teenager, the 38-year-old passenger and seven passengers on board the van died in the serious accident on Tuesday near the city of Midland. The golf team from a university was traveling in the van. The coach and six team members were killed. They were returning from a golf tournament.
The NTSB believes the teen pulled the pickup truck into the opposite lane after the tire blew out. “It was a high-speed head-on collision,” said Bruce Landsberg of the NTSB. However, he could not say in the same way whether someone had been traveling too fast. The burst tire was a spare tire. Two members of the golf team were still being treated in the hospital on Thursday.
In Texas, youngsters can start driving lessons at 14, but don’t apply for a novice driver’s license until they are 15.