A father, and not his 13-year-old son, was driving a pickup truck involved in a fatal crash in West Texas earlier this year, federal investigators said Thursday, adding that the man had methamphetamine in his system.
Nine people were killed after a 2007 Dodge 2500 pickup truck crossed into the oncoming lane and crashed into a van carrying student golfers from the University of the Southwest, a private Christian college in Hobbs, New Mexico. The deadly crash happened on March 15, around 8:17 p.m. in Andrews County, Texas, near the New Mexico border.
The truck slammed into the van head-on, police said at the time. Both the driver and the passenger of the van died, along with six members of the golf team and their coach.
