SEWARD COUNTY – Two people died in an accident just after 12:30a.m. on Tuesday in Seward County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Saturn Vue driven by Marcos Morales-Lux, 36, Guatemala, was westbound on U.S. 54 four miles west of U.S. 83 in the left, eastbound lane of travel and hit a 2016 Kenworth semi head-on.

Morales-Lux and a passenger Encarnacion Perez-Gutierrez, 29, Guatemala, were pronounded dead at the scene and transported to Brenneman Funeral Home.

The semi driver Paul Logan, 41, Oak Grove, was transported to the hospital in Liberal.

A passenger Michael Drinnon, 55, Lawrence, was not injured.

The occupants of the Saturn were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.