A head-on collision just after noon on Thursday left three Dawson County residents, including an elderly couple, in critical condition. According to Dawson County Sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Tony Wooten, the wreck on Hwy. 9, north of Dawsonville, near Veterans Memorial Park ended with two patients being airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and a third taken by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. “While it is still under investigation, as to the nature of the collision, we do know that a pickup truck struck a passenger car in a head-on collision,” he said.