CAYMAN BRAC – Two Kansas men died in an accident just after 5:30p.m. on Sunday in the Cayman Islands.

The Royal Cayman Island Police reported a Honda minivan was traveling eastbound on South Side Road on Cayman Brac, an island that is part of the Cayman Island chain in the Caribbean. The vehicle ran off the road.

Douglas Carney, 50, Topeka, and Mark Bettencourt, 54, Wamego, were pronounced dead at the scene.

A third man was transported to a local hospital for treatment.  His name has not been released. The police did not determine the driver of the van.

Bettencourt was not found until several hours after the accident, according to police. He has been an optometrist at Vision Source in Wamego since 1994

Carney owns a Topeka construction company.