A 13-year-old boy hit a bus of the University of the Southwest on Tuesday in Texas, killing nine persons, according to the National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg.
The boy was driving a truck and then he crossed into the opposite lane on of highway in West Texas and hit the bus that was carrying the University's golf teams.
The casualties are six members of the golf team, the coach, the boy, and the driver in the other truck.
Moreover, there were two students injured and they were transported to the hospital by helicopter.
“They are both stable and recovering and every day making more and more progress,” University of the Southwest Provost Ryan Tipton said.
“One of the students is eating chicken soup,” said Tipton, calling their recovery “a game of inches.”
Although the speed of the truck and the bus, Landsberg said: “This was clearly a high-speed collision."
In the same context, the legal age for driving in Texas is above 15 as starting from 14, young drivers can start taking their classrooms, then by the age of 15, they can receive their provisional license which is the right of driving with an instructor.
Therefore, Victor Taylor of the Department of Public Safety said that the 13-old boy broke the law.
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