Cars head north on Naismith Dr. Tuesday, August 21, 2007, past the scene of an accident just south of 19th Street Terrace. A car filled with KU students crashed into the tree in the median. Two of the students were flown to Kansas City area hospitals.

Three Kansas University students remain in a Kansas City, Kan., hospital after a wreck early Tuesday morning near campus.

According to a Lawrence police statement, at 1:10 a.m. Tuesday the driver of a Ford Mustang convertible, 18-year-old Nicholas Dutoit, of Olathe, lost control while headed south on Naismith Drive. The car slammed into a tree near 19th Terrace, shown above.

An emergency crew extricated Dutoit from the vehicle, and he was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was treated and later released, said Belinda Rehmer, an LMH spokeswoman.

Two 18-year-old passengers were ejected from the vehicle’s back seat. They were Amber Henke, of Downs, and Daniel Tuttle, of Olathe. Both were flown by air ambulance to the Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Tyler Duncan, 18, of Lawrence, was in the front seat and taken to LMH. He was later transferred to KU Hospital, Rehmer said.

KU Hospital spokesman Bob Hallinan said condition updates on Henke, Tuttle and Duncan were unavailable due Tuesday night to the hospital’s patient privacy policy.

Another passenger in the back seat, Christopher Hong, 18, of Lawrence, was taken to LMH where he was treated and released, Rehmer said.

Police said that all five were residents of nearby Oliver Hall.