Police are investigating what they say is a serious head-on vehicle crash that happened south of Lincoln early Sunday morning.

Shortly before 2 a.m., a 43-year-old Georgetown man in a 2006 Toyota Sienna minivan was driving south in the north lanes, according to a news release from Delaware State Police.

At the same time, a 23-year-old Milford man in a 2014 Volkswagen Jetta was driving north in the left lane, the release said. The vehicles crashed head-on.

Both drivers were taken to the Bayhealth Sussex Campus Hospital by ambulance. The minivan driver was in critical condition, and the Volkswagen driver was in serious condition, the release said.

The north lanes where the crash happened were closed for about three hours. The Delaware State Police Collision Reconstruction Unit is still investigating, the release said.

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