Bumpass Cove

Tennessee · United States · Cemetery

A couple were parked in the dirt beside the circular graveyard when the vehicle came out of gear and went down the hill.

This graveyard sits on top of a tall hill at the far end of Bumpass Cove Road in Washington County, Tennessee, laid out in a circle.

A couple were sitting in a jeep in the dirt patch beside it. The man knocked it out of gear and the vehicle went over the side and down the hill.

What is reported there comes from that.

A vehicle rolling because somebody nudged the gear lever is the kind of accident that happens in seconds and that everybody who has parked on a slope has thought about. It is also the reason handbrakes exist and the reason you turn the wheels.

Bumpass Cove has its own harder history. It was mined for zinc and iron, and in the 1970s an old mine site there was used as a landfill that took hazardous waste, which the community fought over for years.

The road is rural and the cemetery is a burial ground.

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Where is Bumpass Cove located?

Bumpass Cove is in Tennessee, United States.