A college junior from Westminster was one of the nine people killed in a head-on crash in West Texas Tuesday evening.
The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that Jackson Zinn, 22, died in the crash.
He is one of six students from the University of the Southwest, along with one faculty member, who were killed. The group — all members of the school's men's and women's golf teams — was riding in a Ford passenger van and returning from a golf tournament in Midland, Texas. The two people in the second car, a Dodge 2500 pickup, were also killed.Zinn was a junior at the New Mexico university.
He was majoring in hospital management and minoring in sports management at the University of the Southwest.The crash happened on Tuesday at 8:17 p.m. on Farm to Market Road 1788 about half a mile north of State Highway 115 in Andrews County. The driver of the Dodge was traveling southbound and the driver of the Ford was heading northbound, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
According to the preliminary investigation, the Dodge moved into the northbound lane and struck the Ford head-on. Both vehicles caught fire.The faculty member was identified as Tyler James, 26, of Hobbs, New Mexico. The two injured students are 19 and 20 years old. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Henrich Siemens, 38, of Seminole, Texas, was the driver in the Dodge. He died, along with a 13-year-old male passenger.
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