UPDATE: Atlanta girl, 5, among three dead in wrong-way crash on I-75 in Macon, coroner says

Three people were killed and a fourth was critically injured early Thursday when an SUV going the wrong way on Interstate 75 struck an oncoming car in northern Bibb County, the authorities said.

Bibb Coroner Leon Jones said the collision happened at about 5 a.m. , about three-quarters of a mile south of the Bass Road interchange.

Jones said the wrong-way driver, at the wheel of a 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, was going north in the interstate’s southbound lanes when the SUV smashed into a 2018 Toyota Camry carrying a family bound for Florida.

The driver of the Tahoe, 27-year-old Martinez Salvad Alvaro, died after being taken to a local hospital.

Two people in the Camry, including its driver, Nomari Waite, 27, of Jacksonville, Florida, and a 5-year-old girl, Carmyn Anderson of Atlanta, were killed.

Another person in the Toyota, the child’s father, 26, who was also Waite’s boyfriend, was in critical condition at a Macon hospital.

Jones, the coroner, said the family had been heading back to Florida to spend the holiday weekend after picking up 5-year-old Carmyn in Atlanta.

The Tahoe was registered to an owner in south Georgia, the coroner said, but it was not immediately clear where Alvaro was from.