I went to my truck, drove it north a few hundred feet, parked it
in the northern gore area, drank a Diet Coke, then started
walking down into Kentucky. There is guardrail here, even though
the dropoff was more drastic on old US 25E passing by Cumberland
Gap, TN. The center lane looked like a turn lane leading to Sugar
Run to me, but Bill Porter assures me it was another passing lane.
Tragically, I am not the only one who made that assumption. Bill
informed me that there were quite a few wrecks at that point
because it was a blind curve and you could come up on someone
waiting to turn off onto Sugar Run road with little warning. "I
remember a bad wreck there a few months before the tunnel opened
that closed the highway for 12 hours and killed several people.
They got sandwiched between a wreck in front of them at the
turnoff and an 18-wheeler that hit them from behind. It killed
everyone in the car." (Image 28 of 33)
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