A dangerous spot

When I heard the sirens go off yesterday, I said to the person standing next to me at The Catawba Emporium in Buchanan -- it's a great day for another wreck on I-81 (not knowing at the time there had been one on the service road just recently, as well!), it's raining again and the road is slick we just had one last week near that little half exit."

There seems to be something wrong in the dynamics of the road at that spot as there are so many wrecks there, but I am no engineer --just a local resident, who uses this road several times a day . . .

I ... want someeone to look at why this particular spot seems to be such a problem area. Most of us who live north of town have to travel old Route 11 to get to and from town or roads to go east or west from this area, as well as the school buses going and coming each day. If there were someway to correct a fault that could be identified and remedied, it would be a great blessing to all of us locally, as well as the folks traveling on I-81 to their own destinations.

-- Gloria Carter, commenting on Saturday's I-81 wreck.