Vehicle crashes into tree at deadly curve in Fort Liberty, Liberty NC
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A vehicle went off the road and crashed into a tree at Dead Man's Curve in Fort Liberty. The curve has a varying shape that can confuse drivers. There are many scars and crosses on trees from past accidents.
Audio|Heard on: Central North Carolina Raleigh / Durham / Triangle Area Ham Radio Repeaters
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Transcript:
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Well, there's fresh skid marks here on Dead Man's Curve, so somebody went off the road last night and hit a tree.
00:15
I hope they're okay,
00:19
but you know, what was the reason they had to do that?
00:27
We all, there's this road, it's on the Northern Training Area of Fort Bragg that I pass by every day.
00:34
All the locals that grew up in this area call it Dead Man's Curve.
00:38
The curve doesn't have a constant radius through it.
00:41
So you start into the curve and it's like a light turn and then in the middle of the curve all of a sudden it gets much sharper and then it gets lighter again.
00:49
And that throws everybody off.
00:51
People hit it going too fast and don't expect the...
00:56
curve because most, if you think about it, most paved roads, the curves have a constant radius and this one doesn't.
01:01
So it throws everybody off.
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But there are,
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all the trees on both sides of the road are scarred all up and there's a bunch of crosses all over the place because there have been a lot of wrecks there through my life.
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Location mentioned:
Fort Liberty, NC 28310
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