9 killed, including 6 college students, in Texas collision

ANDREWS, Texas (AP) — The Texas Department of Public Safety says nine people were killed in a head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university’s golf teams. Sgt. Steven Blanco says a pickup truck crossed the center line of a highway and crashed into a vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams. They had been returning from a tournament in Midland, Texas. Blanco says six students were killed, along with a faculty member. The driver of the pickup and its passenger were also killed. He says two students were taken by helicopter to a Lubbock hospital in critical condition.