Christmas Eve ‘tragedy’ leaves a highschool coach useless and his daughter lacking

An Oklahoma basketball coach and pop of 4 was discovered useless, and his 8-year-old daughter stays lacking after the household’s automobile was swept away by raging floodwaters in Texas on Christmas Eve. 

Will Robinson, a highschool coach from Durant, Oklahoma, his spouse and 4 kids had been driving of their SUV on Tuesday morning when the car left the roadway, bought caught in a drainage ditch in Sherman, Texas and was carried away by sturdy currents.  

All six relations had been trapped inside, in accordance with the Sherman Police Division. Robinson didn’t survive, whereas 4 different relations had been rescued. The household’s 8-year-old daughter has not been discovered. 

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Beloved highschool coach and father Will Robinson discovered useless after Christmas Eve tragedy (Fb/Will Robinson)

The seek for the younger lady, which authorities stated had already lined seven miles of creek as of Wednesday, continues into its third day, as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accredited state search and rescue groups to help find the kid. 

“We’re shifting our focus into the county, focusing on some potential areas the place we have now not seemed to as but,” the Sherman Police Division stated in an announcement on Wednesday afternoon, including, “Our search will proceed till darkish at this time, then we’ll resume looking out once more earlier than daylight.”

The reason for Tuesday’s accident “possible needed to do with a big accumulation of water and possibly some hydroplaning, which is a really harmful scenario,” Lieutenant Samuel Boyle of the Sherman Police Division informed KXII Information 12. “As soon as they’re in that drainage ditch, they’re actually on the mercy of the water movement and the velocity at which that’s taking place.” 

“It’s a tragedy, it truly is,” he added. 

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Highschool basketball coach Will Robinson, who was discovered useless after floodwaters swept away his household’s SUV on Christmas Eve  (Fb)

“That is simply devastating, and taking place on Christmas Eve makes it insufferable,” Robinson’s cousin wrote in a Fb publish on Wednesday. “Will was one of many good ones—a loyal husband and father, a beloved basketball coach, and only a nice individual…please hold your entire Robinson household in your ideas and prayers.”

Quite a few native and state companies, together with Texas Activity Pressure 2, are working collectively within the search, police stated. 

“In crises like these, we’re blessed to serve a group that so badly desires to assist in any method they’ll. Now we have dozens of first responders concerned on this search, many with intensive coaching in looking out in hazardous situations,” Sherman police continued of their assertion, including that they at the moment don’t want any further volunteers. 

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Will Robinson and his household are pictured earlier than their tragic accident on Christmas Eve  (Fb/Will Robinson)

The Sherman Police Division requested anybody with noteworthy details about the case to name their non-emergency telephone quantity at 903-892-7290.

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“Please drive very rigorously,” Boyle informed the native Texas outlet, in a message to all drivers in moist or flooding situations.

“Even should you suppose your car could make it by means of some massive standing water, please contemplate going round and taking one other route as a result of when you hit that standing water, you’ve actually misplaced management of your car.”