Purdue: Van accident, 1 dead.

[icetrojan]

(sorry, no non-USC non-Pac8 section)

More of an FYI... I came across a blurb in a bigger article regarding the snow/ice storm in the Midwest right now.

"In Indiana, a van carrying Purdue University's ice hockey team rolled over on an ice-slickened highway about 20 miles southwest of West Lafayette, killing one team member and injuring seven others, school officials said."

The whole article is here.

If I find a specific article I'll post in here, but my thoughts go out to the team and their families.

[icetrojan]

Article from the Indianapolis Star:

12:00 AM December 2, 2007
Purdue hockey player killed, 7 injured in crash
By Kevin O'Neal
[e-mail]

A member of the Purdue University ice hockey club team was killed and seven teammates were injured Saturday in a traffic crash during freezing rain.

The one-van crash occurred about 3:45 p.m. on icy Ind. 25 in Tippecanoe County, about 17 miles south of West Lafayette, according to a Purdue University news release.

The university said 20 hockey players, their coaches and a manager were headed to Danville, Ill., in three vans for a scheduled late-afternoon game in David S. Palmer Arena, where the Purdue team also practices, against a team from Holy Cross College of South Bend.

One van swerved out of control on the slippery two-lane highway and rolled over. Those in the two other team vans found the van on its side about 10 feet off the highway, the university said.

Names of the player killed and those injured were not available by late Saturday as notifications were made to relatives and the investigation continued. Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said the injured were taken to Home Hospital in Lafayette, and none of their injuries were believed to be life-threatening.

[David Foley]

Wow that is terrible. Thoughts and prayers go out to the team and their families.