blind curve


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Noun1.blind curve - a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are drivingblind curve - a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving
bend, curve - curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
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Now more than two years since that blind curve got him.
In Barangay Tonoton, Piddig, Joey Rasay, 21, died on Monday when his motorcycle was sideswiped by another motorbike driven by Vernon Gorospe, 22, on a blind curve in the highway.
The place also happens to be a blind curve that curtails the line of sight of drivers coming from both approaches.
Chief Inspector Shellamae Tubo-Chang, the spokesperson of the Zamboanga City Police Office, said the red passenger jeepney with license plate KVS 102 'lost [control of] its brake upon reaching the blind curve portion of the road along Zone-1A, Cawit.'
The demographic, ethnic and sociological profiling of Kandhamal was absolutely halfhearted and sometimes in a blind curve.
Vehicles could be driven more safely with information about another car, obstacle or pedestrian around a blind curve, for example.
Almost immediately, as the car turns a blind curve, he hits something which turns out to be a young girl, dressed in a black jogger's outfit.
Police said the incident happened at Solapur-Dhule highway near famous Nagoba Temple of Maharashtra when a bus carrying school students was negotiating a blind curve, but while doing so it rammed into the tourist bus coming from the opposite direction.
Ban Kookot preschool is located in the Minburi District within Bangkok province; there are no sidewalks around the school and there is a blind curve on the road near the school gate which prevents those entering and exiting the school from seeing oncoming traffic until it is close by.
The parents of a nine-year-old boy who miraculously survived after being hit by a 4x4 at a blind curve in Deira have called for a speed breaker to be installed at the dangerous stretch to prevent further mishaps.
The Haryana accident took place because drivers of two vehicles failed to negotiate a blind curve and collided head- on.
The trail follows an old railroad right of way and crosses the two-lane road at an angle near a blind curve. Barry said bicyclists and pedestrians sometimes misjudge the amount of time a crossing will take and can be surprised by cars emerging from the nearby curve.