3 killed after driver goes wrong way on I-75 trying to escape from traffic stop

A car being chased by deputies caused a deadly three-vehicle crash involving a semi truck Thursday on Interstate 75 in Dalton, Georgia State Patrol said.

A 2025 Hyundai Elantra was trying to get away from the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office when it drove in the wrong direction in the southbound lanes around 10:30 a.m.

GSP said it hit a GMC Canyon before crashing into a JB Hunt tractor-trailer and a concrete divider near mile marker 336. The Elantra and the semi truck both caught fire, and the three people inside the Elantra were killed…

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