FRANKLIN COUNTY, Kan. [KCCI] — The Kansas Highway Patrol has identified the eight people killed in a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 169 in Franklin County, Kansas, southeast of Topeka. One of the victims was from Ames (Iowa).  According to the patrol’s report, the deadly crash happened just before 5:45 p.m. Sunday near Virginia Road, when a southbound GMC Yukon attempted to pass a slower vehicle and collided head-on with a northbound Subaru Legacy.

Both vehicles were engulfed in flames when first responders arrived. The northbound vehicle, a 2016 Subaru Legacy, was occupied by four people who all died in the crash. They were identified as 37-year-old Alexander Ernst of Ames, Iowa; and 76-year-old John Elliott, 69-year-old Norleen Elliott, and 33-year-old Madalyn Elliott, all of Chesterfield, Missouri.

Ernst was the driver of the Legacy. Investigators say the Yukon was carrying members of a youth basketball team and their family members returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The driver of the Yukon, 33-year-old Jaimon Gilstrap of Tulsa, died along with three of his passengers: 14-year-old Kyron Gilstrap, 14-year-old Donald Laster, and 41-year-old Wayne Walls, all of Tulsa.

A fifth occupant, a 15-year-old from Talala, Oklahoma, was transported to a hospital with injuries.