A van carrying members of Purdue's ice hockey club rolled over on an ice-slickened highway Saturday afternoon. Andrew T. Jackson, 18, from Chanhassen, Minn., was killed in the accident, said Tippecanoe County Deputy Coroner J. Steve Kohne.
Jackson, an engineering student, had played hockey "since he was a kid," said head coach Cameron Estes.
"He and his folks lived and breathed hockey," Estes said. "He was excited to be a student at Purdue."
The seven injured students were treated for non-life-threatening injuries and released from the hospital, said Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg.
The hockey team was traveling in three different vehicles to Danville, Ill., for a game there when a van carrying eight players rolled over on ice-covered Indiana 25, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
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The accident happened about 20 miles southwest of West Lafayette near the town of Wingate.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is investigating the wreck.
