FORD COUNTY – Three people died in an accident just after 6p.m. on Wednesday in Ford County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Ford Crown Victoria driven by Juan Guadalupe Lopez, 36, Worthington, MN.,was westbound on U.S. 54 seven miles east of the U.S. 283 Junction.

The driver attempted to pass multiple semis and struck a 2005 Chevy Impala driven by Maggie Michele Hall, 20, Elkart, head-on.

Hall and passengers in the Chevy Carl Allen Hall, 24, Elkart, and Hector Rene Gonzalez, 29, Wichita, were pronounced dead at the scene transported to the morgue at Western Plains Medical Center.

Life Flight transported Lopez and a passenger in the Ford Yvonne Morales, 32, El Paso, TX., to Wesley Medical Center.

Another passenger in the Ford Ana Morales, 4, was transported to Western Plains Medical Center in Dodge City. A 2-year-old boy in the Ford was not injured.

Carl Hall and Gonzalez were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.