June 6, 1957 Traditional Cache
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You seek a camo'd lock-and-lock hidden near the site of a horrific accident that briefly made national news.
On June 6, 1957, about 50 yards south of this cache location at the intersection of route 301 and route 162, a tractor-trailer truck loaded with potatoes slammed into a flat-bed truck crammed with migrant Negro farm workers on the way to a bean field. The workers' truck caught fire.
Twenty-one people perished. Thirteen at the scene and the rest succumbed to their injuries later in the hospital. For the next few years, it held the national record for the most people killed in a single auto accident.
News of this accident gave rise to an outcry that helped lead to advances in both safely and civil rights that would come in the early 1960's.
Although the roads have changed over the years as 301 has become more of a limited-access highway, the memory remains.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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