Two Maxwell residents were killed Thursday and their bodies badly burned in a two-car accident northeast of Ames.

Story County Sheriff’s deputies and the Roland Fire Department responded to a 911 call from a passing motorist at 4:15 p.m., reporting an overturned pickup truck and a car on fire in a cornfield near Roland, about 10 miles outside of Ames.

On Friday, a sheriff’s department news release identified the victims as Joshua Joel Johnson, 39, and Joy Elaine Smith, 40.

The two victims shared an address in Maxwell. The release did not include how the bodies were identified.

Gary Foster, chief deputy for the Story County Sheriff’s Office, said the driver of the pickup was outside of his vehicle and moving around when firefighters arrived on the scene.

The driver, identified as Kyle Allyn Holland, 19, of New Providence, was treated at the scene by paramedics and transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center for further treatment.

Foster said the car was on fire with both occupants inside when personnel arrived at the scene.

The Vehicle Identification Number was burned off of the car, along with its license plate tags. Identifications of the victims were also lost in the fire.

The vehicles collided at the intersection of 590th Avenue and 150th Street, with the truck headed northbound and the car westbound.

The car had veered off of the road approximately 50 feet into a cornfield, while the pickup lay on the passenger side near the intersection.

Foster said investigators did not yet know who was at fault.

He said speed was probably not a factor in the crash, instead speculating that limited visibility at the uncontrolled intersection, which is surrounded on all sides by cornfields, may have been a cause.

“In conditions like these, motorists should slow down at these uncontrolled rural intersections,” Foster said.