A number of useless in crash involving College of the Southwest golf group

A car carrying members of the College of the Southwest’s golf groups collided head-on with a pickup truck on a two-lane street in West Texas, killing a number of individuals, together with some college students and the groups’ coach, officers mentioned.

The crash occurred in Andrews County on Tuesday night time. Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Division of Public Security told KWES-TV there have been fatalities in each automobiles, however the variety of useless wasn’t instantly launched.

“It is a very tragic scene,” Blanco mentioned. “It’s extremely, very tragic.”

College president Quint Thurman mentioned in a press release that the car was being pushed by the groups’ coach, Tyler James, and was carrying about seven to 9 college students. He mentioned James and a few college students had been among the many useless.

“We’re nonetheless studying the main points in regards to the accident however we’re devastated and deeply saddened to study in regards to the lack of our college students’ lives and their coach,” Thurman mentioned within the assertion.

Thurman mentioned two college students had been airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, with severe accidents.

The car was transporting members of the college’s males’s and girls’s golf groups from a event, Blanco mentioned, and the opposite car concerned was a Ford F-150.

The College of the Southwest is a non-public, Christian faculty situated in Hobbs, New Mexico, close to the border with Texas. The groups had been scheduled to play in a event Tuesday at Midland Faculty, about 315 miles west of Dallas.

The college tweeted that it was working to inform the members of the family of these concerned within the crash and that counseling and non secular companies could be out there on campus.

The crash occurred in the identical space — however not the identical roadway — the place three individuals had been killed in November when a pickup truck crashed into a college bus carrying members of the Andrews Excessive Faculty band. The highschool’s band director, the college bus driver and the motive force of the pickup truck all died in that crash.

The Related Press contributed to this report.