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- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: American Notes:Tennessee
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- TENNESSEE
- Death on A Foggy Road
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- <body>
- <p> Interstate 75, a four-lane divided highway that crosses the
- Hiwassee River 35 miles north of Chattanooga, is notoriously
- prone to sudden fog. But the warning signs and flashing yellow
- emergency lights did not help last week when a gigantic
- chain-reaction pileup developed in the highway's gloom.
- Vehicles smashed into each other in all four lanes. "We
- couldn't see, but we knew there was something terrible
- happening around us," recalled motorist Sylvia Fine, who could
- hear the crunching sound of steel striking steel.
- </p>
- <p> When rescuers finally fought their way through the fog and
- the wreckage, they found 83 damaged cars and trucks strung
- along a half-mile stretch of the Interstate. Thirteen people
- were killed and 50 hurt in the ill-fated roadway's third--and
- worst--major pile up since 1978. Frightened local motorists
- and truckers could only wonder: How many next time?
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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