ANDREWS, Texas (AP) – The Texas Department of Public Safety says nine people were killed in a head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university’s golf teams. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Steven Blanco says a pickup truck crossed the centerline of a highway and crashed into a vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams.
They had been returning from a tournament in Midland, Texas. Blanco says six students were killed, along with a faculty member. The driver of the pickup and its passenger were also killed. Blanco says two students were taken by helicopter to a Lubbock hospital in critical condition.