Traveling to Elon

rockvillemom
Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:59:27 +0000

We have done the 81 route. If I remember correctly - you will pass by or close to JMU and Virginia Tech as you take this route. It is quite scenic, but there was also considerable truck traffic on this route.

I know it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but ths 2009 accident remains in my mind when I think about taking 81:

"A fiery car crash wasn’t the way life should have ended for Holt and Stone Weeks, according to family.

The two young North Bethesda natives died on Interstate 81 in Virginia on Thursday evening when their car was slammed between two tractor-trailers just south of Interstate 66 in Shenandoah County. According to Virginia state police, the truck which rear-ended the brothers’ 2007 Honda CPE forced the car underneath a tractor-trailer in front of them. That set off a chain reaction in which a third and fourth tractor-trailer were hit, rupturing one of the trucks’ side fuel tanks.

Fire spread quickly through the vehicles, burning the Honda beyond recognition, according to police."