Traffic coming down the mountain from Deep Gap has been dangerous....


.... this week. I rode the bus twice, on Tuesday and Thursday, and both times coming home we passed bad accidents. The first one was a big tractor trailer carrying Christmas trees. The brakes failed and the driver had to pull into the runaway truck ramp so fast that the trailer broke lose and split open, spilling Christmas trees all over the place. Unfortunately the driver was injured and had to be air lifted down to Winston.

The second accident was in a heavy rainstorm where the highway takes a sharp turn right where there is a turn off to the left coming down. All we could see from the bus was cars all over the place, lots of flashing lights, a fire truck, and men in emergency gear. Also one thoroughly torn up car in the middle of the road. Our driver edged through the one lane left open and we were out of it. There was no account of it in the paper the next day.

It may have happened just the other side of the Wilkes/Watauga county line. Apparently the local paper has no interest in accidents in Watauga.

Just the same, let's be careful out there.