Five people, including two children, were killed Sunday in a wreck involving two vehicles on a busy northeast Georgia highway, authorities said.
The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. when Avonlea Holtzclaw, 29, was driving a Ford Explorer north on Georgia 365/U.S. 23 near Alto in Habersham County, according to a news release from the Georgia State Patrol.
When Holtzclaw tried to cross the southbound lanes onto Mount Zion Road, she was hit by Mitchell Boggs, 58, in a Chevrolet Corvette heading south, troopers said.
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The vehicles caught fire, and troopers said all their occupants died at the scene.
Holtzclaw, who was from the small northern Georgia city of Dahlonega, was killed, along with two children in the vehicle, ages 5 and 6, according to troopers. Boggs, of Marietta, northwest of Atlanta, was killed along with one passenger who was not identified.
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