Two drivers were killed and one passenger was critically injured after a wreck Monday morning on Cleveland Highway/Ga. 11.

Georgia State Patrol responded after 7:25 a.m. to Cleveland Highway south of Walden Pond Road. William Simmemon, 56, of Alto, was traveling northbound on Cleveland Highway in a Mitsubishi Galant on a righthand curve as Samuel Osborn, 61, of Hiawassee, traveled southbound in a Ford Escape.

“(Simmemon) failed to maintain his lane of travel and traveled into the southbound lane into the path of the (Ford Escape),” according to state patrol.

State patrol said both drivers were killed in the crash.

Vivian Osborn, 54, of Hiawassee, the passenger in Osborn’s car, was critically injured and transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center.