Chances are every driver in the Triangle has rounded a corner to find a slow-moving reptile lumbering across the asphalt — a turtle hazard at almost every turn.
Turtles wander stubbornly in search of mates and new habitat lost to the Triangle’s population boom, and every year, hundreds get scooped up and treated for car-related shell fractures — most of them fatal.
So with this in mind, a new study aimed to pin down the most lethal intersections for wandering reptiles…