A Grove, Oklahoma man dies in a head-on crash near Baxter Springs.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the crash happened Monday around 3 p.m. on Highway 69 Alternate just north of US 166. Twenty-year-old Trey Cunningham was driving a Pontiac G6 north and crossed the center line. He hit a GMC truck driven by 51-year-old Shannon Taft.

Cunningham was taken to a Joplin hospital where he was pronounced dead. The other occupant of the Pontiac, 21-year-old Valeria Lerma of Miami was taken to the hospital with a suspected serious injury.  Taft, of Baxter Springs, was also taken to the hospital with a suspected serious injury.