HUGOTON – Two Kansans died and two were injured in an accident just before 8p.m. on Wednesday in Stevens County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that a 1999 Peterbilt semi driven by James M. Ford, 58, Liberal, was westbound on County Road D three miles north of the Oklahoma state line.

The semi failed to stop at the stop sign at Kansas 25 and hit the right front of a 2004 Ford Expedition driven by Enddy M. Bojorquez, 20, Hugoton that was northbound on Kansas 25.

Ford and a passenger in the Expedition Micaela Rascon, 47, Hugoton, were pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Paul’s Funeral Home.

Bojorquez and a 4-year-old child in the Expedition were transported to Stevens County Hospital.

The child was in an approved booster seat but Rascon was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.