South Fulton County, GA : Three people, including a mother and 7-year-old daughter dead after a wrong-way driver caused a head-on collision on I-75 in Monroe County early Sunday morning, May 29, 2016

A College Park woman and her 7-year-old daughter were killed in wrong-way crash that also claimed the life of the other driver Sunday morning on I-75 in Monroe County. Now deputies are trying to determine what caused the man to drive on the wrong side of the interstate.

The head-on collision happened around 2:05 a.m. on I-75 southbound near High Falls Road, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly before the crash a caller reported a vehicle going the wrong way on the interstate, but deputies weren’t able to get to the vehicle before the crash occurred.

The wrong-way driver, 32-year-old David Fryar Jr., of Forsyth, was traveling north in the southbound lanes in a Honda Accord when he crashed into a 2006 Nissan Murano driven by 29-year-old Monserrat Ruiz-Godinez, deputies said. She and her daughter, Alani Godinez, were alone in the vehicle, investigators said.

Tony McCoy, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., said he and his wife and two children were returning from a comic convention in Atlanta when the crash happened, according to The Macon Telegraph. McCoy said he was driving south in the left lane and saw what appeared to be headlights coming at him. He thought it might be some kind of construction vehicle on the shoulder of the road, but when his wife pointed out it was a wrong-way driver McCoy said he quickly swerved into the far right lane.

“He whizzed on by,” McCoy told the paper. “He was flying.”

McCoy said the driver made no attempt to avoid the collision. He said he was about to call 911 to report the driver when he saw two patrol cars with lights flashing coming in the other direction, the paper reported. He said he continued driving throughout the night back to Port St. Lucie, and later when he checked online, he learned what happened.

“I felt bad,” he told the paper. “I felt like maybe that could have been us.”

The two adults died at the scene while the child died later at a Macon hospital, the paper reported. Sgt. Lawson Bittick said it was too soon to say whether alcohol contributed to the crash, the paper reported.

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Three killed in Monroe County accident on I-75