In fact killed three Under-20 players and the coach.
Four members from the ranks of Colombian football club Golden Eagles killed Saturday in a traffic accident on the Medellin-Bogota route that left a total of six deaths, authorities said.
"We have six people dead," the director of the Highway Patrol Colombia, Carlos Mena, detailing told reporters that according to preliminary investigations, the cause of the crash was "speeding" by the vehicle they were moved the team Golden Eagles.
The accident happened around noon Saturday on a highway in Antioquia (northwest), when the vehicle footballers separator jumped the road and fell on top of a car that was traveling in the opposite direction, said Mena.
President of Golden Eagles, Fernando Salazar, meanwhile reported that the three were dead players from the lower divisions of the team and coaching staff belonged to another club.
According to press reports, the fifth deceased was a companion of the players.
While Mena confirmed that the sixth fatality was the driver of the vehicle that was going the wrong way and fell on the car carrying members of the football team.
A seventh person was injured in the accident and was taken to a medical facility in the area cafeterocafetera.
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