MANHATTAN (AP) – The Kansas Highway Patrol has identified the two people killed in an early-morning crash that also injured four students from Kansas State University.

The patrol says the students were in a pickup truck traveling east in a westbound lane of Kansas 18 shortly before 3 a-m. Monday. Officers say the pickup struck a westbound car head-on.

The crash killed the car’s driver, 31-year-old Elizabeth Young, of White City, and her passenger, 32-year-old Michael Stanley, of Ogden.

The four students in the pickup were taken to hospitals in Manhattan and Topeka.

They were identified as 23-year-old Miles E. Theurer of Wellington. He was the driver of the pickup. The passengers in his vehicle were identified as 25-year-old Joseph W. Iliff of Manhattan, 25-year-old Andrew C. Mason of Monument, Colorado, and 23-year-old Lance S. Schmidt of Monroe, Nebraska.

The accident occurred near Manhattan on a section of highway reduced to two lanes by construction.