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Question
#33920. night rider
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What island in Michigan has never had a traffic accident and why?
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Friar Tuck
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The question should have referred to automobile rather than traffic accidents as the postman fell off his bike a couple of times. Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, where the clock is turned back more than a century to when the first horseless carriage arrived from the mainland in 1898. The contraption so traumatized local horses that island officials banned the newfangled machines%97and with the exception of a few emergency vehicles, the island remains vehicle-free today. Its only state highway, M-185, has the distinction of having never been the site of an automobile accident. http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20020505/20020505_2110.asp
May 18 03, 5:10 PM
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