13-year-old was driving truck involved in crash that killed 9 in Texas, police say
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A 13-year-old was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that crashed 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.
The driver and passenger in the 2007 Dodge pickup truck died. NTSB Vice Chair Bruce Landsberg identified the driver of the pickup truck as a "13-year-old child," and he said the crash occurred after the left front tire, which was a spare, failed.
"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.
