Victims identified in fatal accident

HUMPHREY -- A 27-year-old Louisiana man and a 31-year-old Kansas man were killed late Monday night after the vehicle they were traveling in ran a stop sign and was struck by a semi-trailer truck at the junction of Highways 81 and 91.

The two victims, George Mutai of Lake Charles, La., and Julius Kosgei of Concordia, Kan., were pronounced dead at the scene of the 11:40 p.m. accident near Humphrey, according to information released by the Platte County Sheriff’s Department.

The victims, with Mutai driving, were traveling westbound on Highway 91 in a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu when Mutai failed to stop at the posted intersection, a sheriff’s department spokesman said.

The spokesman said the victims’ vehicle was then struck by a southbound semi-tractor trailer driven by Kelly Eisma of Hawarden, Iowa, as it passed through the intersection.

The semi driver was not injured.