<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Dead man's curve is a nickname for a curve in a roadway that has claimed lives because of numerous crashes . The term is in common use in the United States . </P> <Ul> <Li> Interstate 20 east of the Birmingham International Airport, at its junction with Interstate 59; engineers built a curve into the highway to avoid a cemetery . </Li> <Li> Interstate 59 about 4 miles north of Gadsden . The S - shaped curve was built to avoid running into a steep mountain . </Li> <Li> A sharp turn in a series of sharp bends on Kali Oka Road, in Saraland, just south of a Crybaby Bridge . </Li> </Ul>

Why do they call it dead man's curve