KANSAS CITY – Two men are dead and four others were seriously injured when their SUV overturned on a county road in southwest Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 20-year-old Mark Harken of Prairie Village, Kansas, was driving a 2000 Ford Explorer in Benton County at 2:15 p.m. Saturday when he lost control of the vehicle and drove off the left side of the road and struck a group of trees. One passenger Evan C. Westoff, 20, Fairway, was ejected.

Harken and 18-year-old Clayton Miller of Kansas City, Missouri, were killed in the crash.

The other young men, Evan C. Westoff, 20, Fairway, Gage, M. Hamilton, 20, Overland Park, David M. Draxler, 19, and Lukas J. Fleming, 20, both from Prairie Village were flown to three regional hospitals in serious condition.

-The Associated Press contributed to this report