Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board determined that 38-year-old Henrich Siemens was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that caused a head-on collision in March in Texas with a van carrying a college golf team that resulted in nine dead, after the initial investigation by local officials claimed his 13-year-old son was driving, the Associated Press reports.
Siemens and his 13-year-old son were killed in the crash, as were six members of the University of the Southwest golf team and one of their coaches. Texas officials said that the son was driving Siemens’ pickup truck. Postmortem toxicology reports show presence of methamphetamine in Siemens’ blood.
The Seminole, Texas community where Siemens and his family lived assisted the family after their house burned down in 2021. The cause of the fire, which started in the kitchen, was not determined.