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Mar 17, 2023 · The Missouri Blood Alley is a 28-mile stretch of Highway 21, beginning just past the Meramec River and the St. Louis county line and ending in De Soto, MO and has a historically high fatality rate. Despite efforts to modernize the highway and bring it up to multi-lane freeway standards, MO 21 remains known as the “Blood Alley.”
Sep 4, 2007 · Drivers traveling Route 21 through Hillsboro can't miss the warning sign unveiled Monday by the Highway 21 Task Force, a group of Jefferson County residents who have been pushing for...
- Sarah Aubuchon
Mar 9, 2019 · A car going south on Highway 21 near Eckardt Lane crossed the center line and hit an Ameren Utility truck. The man in the car died. The utility truck veered and crashed into an apartment...
- Marianne Martinez
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Oct 29, 2016 · Forty miles per hour is how fast most drivers cruise through the scenic town of Hillsboro. So, why the ominous nickname “Blood Alley?”
- Grant Bissell
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May 19, 2024 · A fix for the deadly stretch of California highway that claimed James Dean’s life is nearing completion over six decades after his tragic death. On Sept. 30, 1955, Dean hopped in his new Porsche...
- Managing Editor
Route 21 is a highway in eastern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 30 in Affton. Its southern terminus is at the Arkansas state line (where it continues as Highway 115). In the St. Louis area, it is known as Tesson Ferry Road, which was named after the 19th century proprietor of the ferry across the Meramec River.
Oct 25, 2020 · Directions for it were pretty easy, stay on Highway 21. It is a notorious road, known around here as Blood Alley for all of the driving fatalities that have occurred along its way. We started off safely as Tesson Ferry Road, a four-lane divided highway.
