Seven folks from the College of the Southwest died after its males’s and girls’s golf groups had been concerned in a deadly wreck in Texas on Tuesday evening, officers from the Christian college in New Mexico mentioned Wednesday.
“The united statesW. campus neighborhood is shocked and saddened at present as we mourn the lack of members of our college household,” the college mentioned in a press release that additionally mentioned that two passengers had been in essential situation and being handled in Lubbock, Texas.
Though the college didn’t establish any of the victims by identify, it mentioned its golf coach was among the many individuals who had died within the wreck, which it mentioned occurred when its bus was “struck by oncoming visitors.” A spokeswoman for the college in Hobbs, N.M., mentioned the one folks aboard the bus had been the golf coach, Tyler James, and college students.
The Texas Division of Public Security, which is investigating the wreck, didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Wednesday. However a spokesman, Sgt. Steven Blanco, informed native information shops that the opposite car concerned within the crash had been a Ford F-150 pickup and that at the very least one particular person within the truck died.
“It’s a really tragic scene,” the sergeant informed KWES-TV close to the crash website on Tuesday evening. “It’s very, very tragic.”
The golf groups had traveled to Texas, the place a lot of their gamers had gone to highschool, to compete in a collegiate event in Midland. The crash occurred in close by Andrews County.
James was new to the nondenominational spiritual college, employed simply final summer time as coach after he had labored at different Christian universities and at a highschool about 120 miles southwest of Fort Price.
The united statesW. sports activities program, which competes within the Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics, is part of the undergraduate expertise for many college students, in line with federal data. Between July 2019 and June 2020, it earned revenues of about $3.5 million and recorded simply greater than that in bills.