Dad, Not Boy, Was Driving Auto That Strike Faculty Golfers’ Van

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas male, not his 13-calendar year-old son, was driving the pickup truck that crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a van carrying New Mexico higher education golfers, killing nine men and women, and he had methamphetamine in his process, investigators explained Thursday.

The Nationwide Transportation Protection Board claimed two days soon after the March 15 collision that its preliminary results prompt that the 13-calendar year-outdated was driving the pickup that struck the van carrying University of the Southwest learners and coaches back again to New Mexico from a golf tournament. But the NTSB reported Thursday that DNA screening confirmed that the father, 38-yr-old Henrich Siemens, was driving and that toxicological screening confirmed the existence of methanphetamine in the Siemens’ blood.

Siemens and his son died in the crash alongside with six customers of the men’s and women’s golf teams and their coach.

The collision occurred in Andrews County, which is about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Texas’ border with New Mexico. Although it is a rural place, the roads there can generally be fast paced with targeted traffic relevant to agriculture and oil and gasoline development.

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