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Andrews, TX: When a Child Behind the Wheel and a Failed Spare Tire Take Nine Lives You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a golf tournament. A van carrying a coach and eight young athletes back to Hobbs, New Mexico, met a pickup truck on FM 1788 near Andrews, Texas, and nine people are gone. The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed two facts that make this crash different from any other you have read about: the pickup was driven by a 13-year-old — a child who, under Texas law, cannot hold any license at all — and the truck’s left front tire, which was a spare, blew out before impact. Both vehicles caught fire. Everyone in that van, and the child driving the truck, died. We are not going to pretend we can give you back what was taken. What we can do is tell you, plainly and completely, what the law allows families to do when nine people are killed because a child was put behind the wheel of a 3/4-ton pickup on a rural West Texas highway with a spare tire on the front axle. We can tell you who can…