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Hot Topic: Wrong-way crashes

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It appears Atlanta's roadways may be getting a bit more dangerous after a series of wrong-way driver accidents in the last few weeks.

Two people were killed and another person injured in an accident involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 85 at Interstate 285 in Fulton County on Wednesday, police said.

According to Melissa Parker of the Fulton County Police Department, a wrong-way driver in a pickup truck southbound in the northbound lane of I-85 collided head-on with a truck pulling a trailer just before 3:30 p.m.

That crash is the fourth involving a wrong-way driver in the last several weeks. Over the weekend, a driver slammed into another car on Georgia 316 near Dacula, injuring two people.

Last Friday, Carlyn Royball died after she struck another car-head on along Georgia 400 in Sandy Springs.On August 15, Frampere Ingle got on Ga. 400 in the wrong direction, killing herself and another driver. Police believe that in that case, Ingle had been drinking.

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