Two Lanes to Accokeek - SB Nation
16, 2008, a white Ford Crown Victoria in the right lane, a green Mercury Grand Marquis in the left lane, music thumping from each. Let’s say Darren Bullock and Tavon Taylor race. But let’s say they start right here in the same spot, and let’s leave the video evidence and the eyewitness evidence and the skid marks and the cops and the state’s attorneys and the media attention out of it for a moment. Let’s just say they race because, quite simply, that’s what young men do here. This is Indian Head Highway, Maryland State Route 210, one of the straightest divided highways in the Washington, D. C. area. At the southern end of the highway, about 30 miles south of Washington, is the town of Indian Head, where boards cover up the windows of an old department store and an empty grocery store, and a bank has been turned into a church. In the middle of the two worlds is an isolated stretch of road about 3 miles long without shopping centers or stoplights, lined mostly by woods. The highway has four lanes here, with extra turning lanes at intersections, and it’s divided by a grassy median strip about 30 feet wide. In the 1990s, a few new housing developments in the area attracted African-American families seeking suburban life in four- and five-bedroom houses away from the city. But those developments sit well off the highway, protected by access roads and a new tree line. Source: www.sbnation.com
