13-year-old boy driving a pickup truck collided with a passenger car, killing 9 people in Texas

According to Vice Chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Council Bruce Landsberg, the initial investigation showed that the pickup truck had a spare wheel instead of the left front tire of the vehicle. This spare tire seems to have failed, causing the pickup truck to rush in front of the passenger car.

“A 13-year-old kid gets behind the wheel of a pickup truck“, Mr. Landsberg said at a press conference on March 17.

At the time it happened pickup truck accidentthe tour bus was carrying Southwest University male and female golf team members who were traveling to the site of a tournament.

Six of the student-athletes were killed in the collision, along with a coach. The 13-year-old pickup truck driver and a passenger, Henrich Siemens, 38, were also killed in the collision.

The Texas Department of Public Safety identified another coach and team members with serious injuries as Tyler James, 26, Mauricio Sanchez, 19, Travis Garcia, 19, and Jackson Zinn. (22 years old), Karisa Raines (21 years old), Laci Stone (18 years old) and Tiago Sousa (18 years old).

Dayton Price, 19, and Hayden Underhill, 20, two other people in the van are in critical condition.

The passenger car was also burned in the crash in Andrews County, Texas. (Photo: AP)

The Texas Department of Public Safety said the determination that the boy was driving at the time of the crash was based on an examination of the remains in the driver’s seat following the fire following the crash.

US investigators are still looking into whether the vehicle’s video recording data still exists after the crash, so it can download data about the vehicle’s speed before the crash. The speed limit on the highway is 75 mph (120 km/h).

Mr. Landsberg said: “This is clearly a head-on collision with high speed between two heavy vehicles“.

Several passengers on the tour bus appeared to have failed to wear seat belts and at least one person was ejected from the vehicle in the collision.

The preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board will be released in about two to three weeks, but the final report will not be released for 12 to 18 months, Landsberg said.

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