INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that collided with a van in Texas, killing nine people, including six members of a New Mexico
college&s men&s and women&s golf team and a coach, the United States National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday.The fiery,
head-on collision in West Texas on Tuesday left two others hospitalized, Reuters reported.A 13-year-old child was behind the wheel of the
pickup truck,& NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg told a news conference, saying it appeared ''that the left front tire which was a spare
tire had failed, which resulted in the vehicle pulling hard to the left and crossing into the opposing lane.It was very clearly a high speed
head-on collision between two heavy vehicles,& he added.According to Reuters a 2007 Dodge 2500 pickup being driven by the 13-year-old struck
the 2017 Transit towing an eight-foot cargo trailer and carrying the coach and eight team members of the University of Southwest College
golf team, Landsberg said.USW, a private Christian university in Hobbs, New Mexico, had said its van was carrying nine people, seven of whom
died, and said two others were in critical condition at a Texas hospital, read the report.The pickup truck&s driver and passenger also died
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