The National Transportation Safety Board says the 13-year-old in the F-150 was behind the wheel in a crash that left nine dead in West Texas
The Ford pickup truck slammed into a van carrying the University of the Southwest golf teams Tuesday night. In the end, six students and the head coach died in the accident along with the child and 38-year-old Heinrich Siemens. The students ranged in age from 18- to 22-years-old.
While no one knows why the child was driving – they do have an idea of why the crash happened: the left front tire on the truck was a spare – that blew out. The suspicion is that’s why the vehicle veered across the median. While the speeds have yet to be determined, NTSB investigator Bruce Landsberg noted, “this was clearly a high-speed collision.”
Source: Fox 7