1 dead, multiple injured in wrong-way crash on I-75, police say

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — Authorities have reopened Interstate 75 after a crash Sunday morning.

Georgia Department of Transportation told Triple Team Traffic just before 5:30 a.m., officials were alerted to a crash on I-75 SB at Hudson Bridge in Henry County.

Stockbridge police said Alyssa Johnson, 23, was driving a Dodge Stratus traveling north in the southbound lanes.

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Johnson’s Dodge collided head-on with a GMC Yukon.

She was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash.

Following the initial head-on crash, a southbound tractor-trailer also crashed into the Dodge.

The impact of that crash caused the Dodge to become engulfed in flames.

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All seven occupants of the GMC Yukon were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The roadway has been reopened.

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