Farm Road 511

Texas · United States · Road

On a desolate stretch of this road at night, cattle appear in front of the car. The local papers have covered it.

Farm Road 511 near Brownsville, Texas is well used in the day and empty at night, and what drivers report on the desolate stretch has been covered in the local press.

Cattle appear in the road in front of the car.

They are known locally as the ghost cows, and drivers describe braking hard for animals that are not there when they stop.

The practical explanation is not much less alarming. This is ranch country, the fencing along farm roads is old, and loose cattle on unlit roads at night are a genuine and recurring hazard in south Texas. A black cow standing in the road is effectively invisible until headlights are on it, and collisions with them kill people every year.

A driver who brakes for one and finds nothing may have avoided a real animal that moved off.

The road is public and rural.

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Where is Farm Road 511 located?

Farm Road 511 is in Texas, United States.