Deon Lendore, 29, was a bronze medal winner for Trinidad & Tobago and NCAA champion at Texas A&M. He was also volunteer assistant coach at the school.
Trinidad and Tobago bronze medalist Deon Lendore poses during the medal ceremony for the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Britain, on March 3, 2018.— Deon Lendore, an Olympic bronze medal-winning sprinter for Trinidad & Tobago and former NCAA champion at Texas A&M, was killed in a head-on collision in Texas, state police said. He was 29.
The driver of the SUV, a 65-year-old woman, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, DPS said. The driver of the vehicle sideswiped by Lendore before the collision wasn't injured. The cause of the crash was under investigation Tuesday. Lendore spent the past two years as a volunteer assistant at Texas A&M while he continued to compete professionally.