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Article: The northwest passage: the new U.S. 71 from Alma to Fayetteville will be a $220 million answer to prayers. (Special Report: Transportation in Arkansas)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 22, 1992
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Like many Arkansans who have made the trip from Alma to Fayetteville along U.S. 71, Bobby Hopper has a story of a near miss.
Hopper is a member of the state Highway and Transportation Commission. Shortly after being appointed to the commission, he was heading back to his home in Springdale from a meeting at Little Rock.
He exited off Interstate 40 and headed north on U.S. 71. Several miles past Alma, he reached the crest of a hill just as a motorist in the other lane veered his way.
Hopper ran off the road.
Luckily, he was in a four-wheel drive Ford Bronco.
"I went into a ditch and came right out," he says. "I wasn't hurt."
Still, ...