GRAY COUNTY- Two Kansas men died in accident just after 5 a.m. on Thursday in Gray County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported the two men were standing on the westbound shoulder of U.S. 50 near a disabled vehicle involved in an earlier accident five miles east of Cimarron.

A westbound 2012 Dodge pickup driven by Darrell Wright II, 27, Woodward, OK, attempted to avoid the disabled vehicle, drove on the shoulder and hit both men Christopher Louis Conrardy, 27, Cimarron, and Chris Alan Hamilton, 50, Garden City.

Wright, Conrardy and Hamilton were transported to Western Plains Medical Center. Conrardy and Hamilton died.

Just before 5 a.m., a 2007 Chevy pickup driven by Conrardy was westbound on U.S. 50 five miles east of Cimarron.

The pickup traveled left of center and struck the 4th and 5th axle of an eastbound semi driven by Hamilton.

A portion of U.S. 50 between Dodge City and Ingalls was closed due to an accident, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation.