Four children and two adults were killed in a wrong-way car crash on a Kentucky highway on Saturday, authorities said.

The wrong-way driver, Jamaica Caudill, 38, was going southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 when she collided with a car carrying five people in Lexington, police said.

All six people involved in the wreck were killed. Caudill was alone in her car.

Inside the other vehicle were four children, ranging in age from 2 to 11, and a 30-year-old driver Catherine Greene.

Caudill and 9-year-old Karmen Greene, were declared dead on scene.

Catherine, Santanna Greene, 11, Brayden Boxwell, 5, and Jack Greene, 2, were pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said.

The fatal wreck is under investigation.

With Post wires