2 dead, 2 injured in wrong-way crash on I-85 in DeKalb County

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - State troopers are investigating after a car chase, which began as a traffic stop, ended in a deadly wrong-way crash Thursday night on Interstate 85 near the Clairmont Road exit.

The crash happened just after 10 p.m.

According to the Georgia State Patrol, one of their troopers was pursuing a Saturn that fled after being pulled-over for speeding on Buford Highway. The Saturn then headed Eastbound on Clairmont Road, towards I-85. The trooper, they tell us, tried to perform a PIT maneuver on the vehicle when it got close to the I-85 ramp.

"This maneuver left the 2002 Saturn SL stopped partially in the first lane of I-85 South and partially on the ramp. The trooper exited his patrol car and ordered the driver to put his hands up. The driver briefly put his hands up then fled the scene," GSP said in a news release on Friday. 

GSP said the Saturn drove north in the southbound lanes of I-85 from the Clairmont southbound on-ramp. The trooper did not follow the Saturn, according to GSP. Investigators said the trooper then monitored the suspect's vehicle from the northbound lanes of I-85. 

"He spotted what looked like a crash on I-85 South just before the off-ramp from I-85 South to Clairmont Road.The trooper continued north, turned around, and located the crashed Saturn," GSP said. 

The suspect hit a 2012 Infinity G37 head-on. Lisa Jackson, 52, of Alpharetta, was inside the Infinity and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. 

Investigators said the male front seat passenger and male driver in the Saturn both died on scene. A female passenger in the Saturn was also taken to Grady with serious injuries.