Elise Word, 25, Denerra Patterson, 25, killed, after their car leaves the U.S. 78 roadway near Atlanta, strikes a guardrail and is then struck by a SUV.

Two people from the Birmingham area were killed in a car wreck in Georgia over the weekend.

Elise Word, 25, of Birmingham, and Denerra Patterson, 25, of Docena, were killed when the car Word was driving flipped and hit a guard rail on U.S. Highway 78/Stone Mountain Highway around 5 a.m. Sunday.

The vehicle flipped several times and hit an SUV, but the driver of the other vehicle was not injured, according to the newspaper.