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Two dead, child injured after wrong-way crash on I-75

Two people were killed and one child injured in a crash early Tuesday caused by a driver going the wrong way on Interstate 75, Chattanooga police said.

Police responded to the crash around 2 a.m., according to a news release, just north of the Shallowford Road overpass near Hamilton Place.

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The driver of a Nissan Sentra, a 37-year-old woman, was reportedly driving south in the northbound lanes of the interstate.

She reportedly collided with a Honda Accord being driven by a 65-year-old man. His car spun out and was hit again by a semitrailer.