By Steven Symes 
A beautiful red Chevelle SS met a horrible fate, hitting a light pole nose-first during the Pigeon Forge Rod Run in Tennessee. The crash happened on the night of September 12, leaving onlookers and other Rod Run participants shocked.
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Thankfully, the driver and passengers in the classic Chevy muscle car walked away with minor injuries. But the vehicle is going to need some serious work before it will ever run and drive again.
We don’t have any details on what preceded the crash, simply that that driver lost control and hit the pole.
Many on social media have theorized about what might have caused the accident. Quite a few believe the driver was going too fast on a mountain road, entered a turn too hot, and wrecked out. That sort of thing does happen more often than many would want to believe, a sad reality of these events.
However, others have postulated the driver must have swerved to avoid one of the many golf carts or electric scooters which vex many drivers.
Whatever the cause, if you plan on attending a Pigeon Forge Rod Run in the future, you should know it gets crowded fast. According to Pigeon Forge Police Department, traffic delays are common, with it sometimes taking several hours just to get from one side of the city to the other.
Some locals, of course, hate how busy it gets. But for many businesses which serve visitors, it’s a boom time, so they welcome the crowds, even if things get a little crazy.
Police patrol heavily during the event, but they can’t be everywhere at once. Sometimes attendees take advantage, racing their cars around on the local roads to show off or just have fun. That might have been a contributing factor in this Chevelle crash.
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