I drove that stretch a couple weeks ago coming back here to Richmond from Jacksonville. I don't remember there being much swamp up along the Rocky Mount stretch of I-95, but there are numerous creeks that cut through the area. Maybe there was swamp there and I was too busy dodging morons to notice it.
It's not exactly remote, but there ain't a hell of a lot out there between exits, for sure. Rocky Mount itself is a ways off 95, of course, and if I remember that area between exits 138 and 141 correctly, it's three solid miles of nothing but trees and road signs.
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I've driven that area an hour or so before sunrise a couple of times in the past month and have seen many deer on each trip. Hope that wasn't the cause.
We hear about that section of I-95 all the time; it's shut down all the time for wrecks (and even shootings of State Patrol officers) almost every month.