Six university golfers and their coach die in head-on crash in Texas

The scene of the crash in west Texas in which nine people died (NewsWest 9 KWES-TV via AP)

Six members of a New Mexico university golf team and their coach were among nine people who died in a head-on collision in Texas, police said.

A pick-up truck crossed the centre line of a two-lane road in Andrews County and crashed into a vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf teams, said Sergeant Steven Blanco of the Texas Department of Public Safety.