A Kansas car crash left eight dead, including two students, a staff member and a former coach from public schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma, officials said.

Two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas, killing eight people, including a high school student, a teacher-coach and a school employee from Oklahoma,

High school student Donald "DJ" Laster died in the crash, along with former coach and teacher Wayne Walls and school employee Ja'mon Gilstrap, officials said.