MONTGOMER COUNTY — Two people died in an accident just after 11a.m. Saturday in Montgomery County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Dodge Avenger driven by Terry Lee Reeder II, 29, Marysville, WA., was westbound in U.S. 166 three miles east of U.S. 75.

The vehicle crossed the center line to the south edge line of the eastbound lanes and struck a 2008 Buick Lucerne driven by Alvin D. Gaston, 85, Coffeyville, head-on.

Reeder and a passenger in the Dodge Kaity Pierce, 25, Stanwood, WA., were pronounced dead at the scene.

Three children in the Dodge Athena M. Reeder, 6; Elysian K. Reeder, 7; and Terry Reeder III, 9, all of Coffeyville were transported to Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.

Gaston was transported to Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. All were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.