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Interstate 85 in North Carolina

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Two dead in crash involving mail truck on southbound I-85 in west Charlotte

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I-85 North - Durham, NC

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Overturned tanker shuts down I-85 in Charlotte, NC

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Portion of southbound I-85 closed in west Charlotte after crash

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Burlington - Durham (NC). [December - 2009] I-40 I-85

In the U.S. state of North Carolina, Interstate 85 (I-85) scales the state for 234.6 miles (377.6 km) from the South Carolina border to the Virginia border. As the second-longest interstate in the state, it links the three largest metropolitan areas in North Carolina: Metrolina, the Piedmont Triad, and the Research Triangle. Nine of the twenty largest municipalities in the state lie along I-85, and it connects those cities to Richmond, Virginia to the north, and Upstate South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia to the south.
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