Texas boy, 13, was driving dad's truck when it veered onto wrong side of road and crashed into van full of USW students, killing nine 'months after Mennonite teen burned down family's home'
Daily Mail
March 17, 2022
A 13 year-old boy blamed for a crash that killed himself, his dad, six students and their golf coach set his house ablaze shortly before Christmas, a family friend has claimed.
The unidentified youngster, killed alongside eight other people in Andrews, Texas, on Tuesday, burned down his family's home after leaving eggs unattended on a stove, family friend Aganetha Siemens said. She is not related to the boy or his dad, Heinrich Siemens, 38.
Heinrich was a father of five, with his family part of the Mennonite church. The youngster was driving the family's Dodge truck when it crossed the median onto the wrong side of the road, slamming into a bus carrying eight University of the South West golf students, with six of those golfers and their coach all killed.
Aganetha told DailyMail.com: 'I couldn't imagine going through all that and then to have this happen,' she said. 'It's just so sad.' She added that no-one had been hurt in the blaze.
Two male students were pulled from the wreckage of Tuesday's crash alive and airlifted to hospital.
The NTSB revealed the age of the driver on Thursday, but have yet to identify him. They said that the car the boy was driving suffered a front-left tire blowout, and that that tire was a spare.
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