Victims ID'd In Crash Of College Golf Teams Bus: Police

ANDREWS, TX — Eight of the nine people who died in a bus crash Tuesday night in Texas have been identified by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

A University of the Southwest bus carrying members of the men's and women's golf teams was involved in a crash with a pickup truck near Andrews, Texas, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Among those killed was Tyler James, 26, who is listed as the University of the Southwest golf coach on the school's athletics website and was driving the bus, according to authorities.

Mauricio Sanchez, Travis Garcia, Jackson Zinn, Karisa Raines, Laci Stone and Tiago Sousa also were killed, and all six were members of the school's men's and women's golf teams. Men's golf team members Dayton Price and Hayden Underhill were injured and taken to University Medical Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Both are in critical condition, according to authorities.

Henrich Siemens, 38, and an unidentified 13-year-old boy from Seminole, Texas, were in the pickup truck, and both were killed, police said.

The bus was northbound on FM 1788 while returning from a competition in Midland, Texas. The pickup truck, which was southbound, went into the northbound lane and struck the Ford passenger van head on. It is unknown why the pickup truck moved into the northbound lane, authorities said.

The crash occurred around 8:15 p.m. about a half-mile north of Highway 115 on FM 1788, according to police.

The bus was a Ford transit passenger van, and the truck was a Dodge Ram 2500. Both vehicles caught fire, DPS officials said.

The team was returning to the campus in Hobbs, New Mexico, from a competition in Midland.

Texas Highway Patrol’s West Texas Region District Crash Team and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash, authorities said.