Four people were killed in a crash between a van and a Dallas Cowboys tour bus in Kingman, according to the Department of Public Safety. No players were among the Cowboys personnel on the bus.
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The occupants of the Cowboys bus were not injured.
The Sunday afternoon crash happened on US 93 about 30 miles north of Kingman, Arizona. After the Las Vegas stop, the bus was scheduled to go on to Oxnard, Calif., for the team’s training camp. Investigators said the van failed to yield the right-of-way from a stop sign as it turned left to cross the traffic lanes and access Pierce Ferry Road, the DPS said.
Identities weren’t released while notification of next of kin is pending, and it’s not known if the victims were related. The bus was seemingly intact and sitting upright in a field afterward, while the van appeared reduced to wreckage.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones issued a statement Monday, saying, “An accident involving loss of life is tragic”. Spagnola has been documenting the annual bus tour on the Cowboys’ website.
Dalrymple says the bus had no players, only staff members on board. On his Twitter page, Spagnola tweeted before 2 p.m. Sunday that the bus was 80 miles (129 kilometers) outside Vegas.
The bus was on its way to a Cowboys event with 50 to 75 fans set for the afternoon, said Charles Cooper, manager of GameWorks entertainment center in Vegas.
He says people were already waiting when an organizer called and said the event would have to be canceled because of the crash.
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Cooper says the team mascot was supposed to appear.
