Gloria Martinez Alonso, 24, and Elisa Martinez, 1, of West Columbia, have been identified by Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher as the two who died in a wreck on Christmas Eve. 

The two-vehicle accident happened at about 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 24 on Platt Springs Road in the Lexington area of Lexington County. 

Alonso and Martinez were two of three passengers traveling in a vehicle eastbound when they were struck head-on by another vehicle traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to a release from the coroner, and the other passenger in the vehicle with Alonso and Martinez was transported to a nearby hospital with "critical" injuries. 

"The driver of the other vehicle was transported to an area hospital with injuries," according to the release.

The Lexington County Coroner’s Office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol are investigating.