Head-On Collision Kills 2 After Wrong-Way Motorist Goes North On SB Georgia 400

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — Two people were killed Sunday in a head-on collision after a driver went the wrong way on Georgia 400, police said.

Around 5:30 a.m., Sandy Springs police began receiving multiple reports of a wrong-way motorist traveling north in the southbound lanes, according to police reports. Before officers could reach the driver, however, callers began reporting that two cars had crashed head-first into one another, police said.

Officers arrived to find the wreck just south of the Roberts Drive overpass as southbound traffic was passing the Chattahoochee River and leaving Roswell, according to police reports. Only the drivers were in each vehicle and both died on the scene from their injuries, police said.

Authorities have not identified either victim pending notification of their respective next of kin. Sandy Springs Police ask that anyone who may have been a witness to the incident or seen the wrong-way driver contact Officer Gilmore with the Traffic Unit at SGilmore@SandySpringsGA.gov.