She smiled, turned up the radio, veered right to the shoulder of the road and hit the gas.

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As we entered Maryland she was nearing 90 mph on the shoulder of the road passing cars as if they were standing still as rush hour was nearing its peak.

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And there is still something else -- a disturbing incident that occurred not long after Johnny Lee Butts was killed and just around the corner: Four young African-American boys say they were walking on the shoulder of Smart Road when two white men in a white Jeep aimed straight for them, scaring them into the ditch.

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The ambulance had to race up the hard shoulder of the A1 as the road was blocked.

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Mr. LAWSON: (Singing) You spend your life a-running around out there on the road, leaving your woman a-sitting at home to shoulder all of the load.

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