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.
🚨 RED ALERT Stockbridge: I-75/sb shut down n. of Hudson Bridge (Exit 224), bad crash. Delays from I-675. Take Hwy. 42/23. #ATLtraffic pic.twitter.com/vCGVQojsk4
— Triple Team Traffic (@WSBTraffic) October 15, 2023
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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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