‘Bloody 27’ lives up to its morbid moniker

PHOTOS BY BRIAN ACKLEY

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd with the grim task of helping investigate a fatal accident on U.S. Highway 27 between County Road 630A and County Road 640.

Although the complex nature of the pile-up means a final investigation is not complete, law enforcers know that visibility in the area was next to zero at the time of the crash because of fog, possibly mixed with smoke from a controlled burn to the west of the highway in March.

By BRIAN ACKLEY

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Locals who work in area emergency rooms have a name for it: Bloody 27.

Those who can remember decades ago when U.S. Highway 27 was still just a two-lane road referred to it by that same morbid moniker as well.

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