Officials say a 13-year-old was driving the truck that killed 9 people, including student athletes, in Texas.
head-on into a passenger van on Tuesday, killing nine people, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday. The truck crossed the center line of a Texas highway before crashing into the van, which was carrying members of the University of the Southwest men's and women's golf teams.
"No matter how many times we go through one of these investigations, we understand the gravity and the tremendous pain that goes along with," Landsberg said Thursday. Two students Dayton Price, 19, and Hayden Underhill, 20, were severely injured in the crash and airlifted to a Lubbock hospital. Southwest Provost Dr. Ryan Tipton said in a press conference Thursday that both students are recovering slowly and one is able to eat.
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